Idle Bloom are an indie rock four-piece that explores sound texture with cascading guitars, lush harmonies, propelling drums, and a fierce range of emotive sincerity. Founded in 2014, the band consists of guitarist/singer Olivia Scibelli, bassist Katie Banyay, drummer Weston Sparks, and guitarist/singer Gavin Schriver. They were named by Rolling Stone as “an underground Nashville band reclaiming Music City,” and have drawn comparisons to the Breeders, Dinosaur Jr. and Belly. 

Years of touring DIY communities and venues nationwide has grown Idle Bloom into a tight group that is both captivatingly noisy and tunefully melodic. In 2015, they released their first EP Some Paranoia, followed by Little Deaths, their debut album in 2017.

Their sophomore LP, Flood the Dial, produced by Ben McLeod of All Them Witches, was recorded in an isolated cabin in Kingston Springs, TN over the course of a week. Due summer 2018, Flood the Dial is refreshingly anti-establishment, ardently hopeful, and catchy as hell. It addresses discordant themes in today’s overwhelming political landscape. Deliberate guitar hooks and deeply personal lyrics deliver tension and release in an increasingly chaotic world.

The band has played venues such as Baby’s All Right (BK) and The Roxy (LA) with acts including All Them Witches, Chastity Belt, Ought, Bully, Those Darlins, Sheer Mag, Jessica Lea Mayfield, Speedy Ortiz, and many more. Idle Bloom looks forward to continuing to tour and break the mold as they experiment refining sound.

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Abi Moore is an Americana / Roots Rock artist from Nottingham.

It’s almost a decade since the release of Abi's last album – nine years in which Abi Moore experienced breakups, losing her home, lots of moving, touring, burnout and, eventually, a fresh comeback. 

After the success of Amoeba & Stone in 2014, Abi Moore promised herself she wouldn’t return to original solo music until she produced something unexpected, sonically exciting and not written via her usual habit of sitting down with an acoustic guitar. Says Abi: 
“Most of the music that excites me is somewhere on the rock spectrum, 
whether it’s bluesy, rootsy, folky, grungy, or country/ Americana- 
influenced. Even the Laurel Canyon artists I love sit at the rock end of 
the 70s folk/rock genre. I thought a lot about what excites me as a 
listener and had to question why I wasn’t making that sound myself. 
Once I stopped caring about other people’s expectations of me, I bought a Telecaster, stompbox, some pedals and I found a sound that lit me up.” 

Steering purposely away from the demure, acoustic singer/songwriter box she was often mistakenly assigned to, (“I’d rather not fit any box than be stuck in the same one forever,”) she challenged herself to write from the gut instead of the head. Avoiding any overthinking, over-editing or careful crafting to achieve a less considered, more gutsy feel, Abi instead “let out some impulsive, raw emotion in the moment. It’s the sound of my rebel self not filtering its thoughts before it speaks.” 

The result is her new, fourth studio album, No More Chasing. It’s a sonic experiment– every song comes from a unique writing stimulus: one written in silence in her head, another over the drone of her cooker hood, some only with strings, to the beat of her car’s window wipers, from ideas she had in dreams, or to a rhythm stamped passionately into her kitchen floor with her flamenco shoes on. 

No More Chasing sounds like the vocal harmonies of indie-folk band The Staves met the primal guitar riffage of Jack White, via the folk-rock stylings of Fleetwood Mac, the bluesy vibrancy of British duo Ferris & Sylvester, the attitude of When Rivers Meet and the southern gothic edge of Suzanne Santo. 

It’s a unique space that Abi takes up. With influences from 50s rockabilly, 70s blues-rock, 90s singer/songwriter pop-rock and early 00s garage-rock, the end result is an Americana / Roots-Rock sound all of her own. It’s edgy, unafraid and unpredictable. Sometimes we only know it’s Abi because of her one constant signature instrument: her urgent yet soulful vocals, delivered with utter conviction and punctuated by impressive harmonised backing vocals. They are still the main focus, but this record is undeniably her rock moment, and the music is more visceral and looser than her previous work.

We're a band and we play nice songs. Formed in Manchester by Indie/Pop maker David Faitala
Our debut EP "Departures" is out now!
Download here:
https://itun.es/i6Sv6dC
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/6gmWBRzemW0Vfxf0nVoGVa

4 BBC Radio 2 Playlists, iTunes Single of the Week, International touring singer songwriter, 500 mil streams +, Multi Instrumentalist.

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