Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Child Bloom’s EP ‘Shaky Knees’ demonstrates Lennon Kloser’s development as an artist all through its nineteen-minute runtime.

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Okayid Bloom’s discography is the proper soundtrack to cruising on a motorbike or a longboard below the Southern California sundown, or no less than his music provides the listener the sensation that they’re doing simply that. He’s Los Angeles’s response to Tame Impala. Bouncy bass strains, shiny synths, and groovy guitar licks. Essentially the most fascinating side of Child Bloom’s music is his hypnotic vocals and resilient lyrics.

Launched August 11, 2023 by way of Place Music, Shaky Knees is Child Bloom’s (Lennon Kosler) greatest launch to this point. It’s the results of an introspective journey to Nashville the place Kessler was capable of enterprise into new inventive realms.

Child Bloom is an LA-based artist who has been releasing feel-good rock/pop/dance music since 2016. He launched his first EP independently (he has since been signed to the Indie file label Place Music). Totally different State of Thoughts featured three songs that went viral. The duvet options two legs positioned snuggly right into a pair of sensual cherry-red curler skates. It’s unsurprising that just a few of the tracks went viral, they transport listeners on to a curler rink the place all of the patrons are dancing in coordination with each other.

The duvet artwork for Child Bloom’s album A Lengthy Kiss Goodbye (2017) contains a shimmering non-public jet breaking by way of the clouds, as Kosler was attempting to achieve new heights with this launch. The songs on the album really feel very intimate as if Child Bloom is performing for listeners in a personal nightclub.

The album is extra experimental than his earlier launch. Kosler was nonetheless working to seek out his sound. The opening observe “Take My Breath Away” has a disco really feel with glitchy manufacturing and modifications in tempo. The factor that prevented the album from reaching its full potential was that Child Bloom had not but discovered his area of interest.

His first music video got here in 2019, with the aptly named “EVRWNDR” (pronounced “Ever Surprise”), as he belts out the refrain by way of mumbled singing, right here his vocal efficiency is the spotlight of the observe. The video begins with a younger and bloodied Kossler being dragged throughout a gravelly path, the entire video looks like a distorted imaginative and prescient, a dreamscape of a Los Angeles evening gone improper.

The music was featured on the EP LEMONHEAD (what’s it with LA artists and lemons? taking a look at you, Tyler), an EP wherein Child Bloom is discovering a brand new path and sound in his music making. The title observe has an eighties really feel, a extra gravelly-sounding Kosler coping with the psychological well being ramifications of a misplaced relationship.

Do you bear in mind?
It’s laborious to clarify
Out on a bender, now
Dropping all day
Light give up
A cause to remain, ah
Hold it collectively, now
Can’t assist however get carried away

The next 12 months Child Bloom launched one other EP, Blood Sugar, in reference to his lifelong battle with type-1 diabetes. The title observe is harking back to Harry Kinds. “Candy Dream” (persevering with the blood sugar theme) is a singular observe with a lure drum sample and disco synths wherein Bloom does a little bit of rap-singing à la Anthony Kiedis.

Child Bloom’s first album with a runtime over half-hour got here in 2022 with Freeway. Highlights on the album embody “Cowboy,” a music about each metropolis boy’s dream of getting away from all of it, “Treatment,” a music about his faults in a relationship, and “Does It Really feel Actual,” about rising up and drifting aside from previous mates. The maturity in Kosler’s songwriting shines by way of on the tracklist. He has honed in on the a number of assets he has on his musical software belt.

Kosler didn’t decelerate in 2023, with two singles and one other EP – arguably the indie soundtrack to the summer time, with feel-good tunes and never one skippable observe through the breezy 19-minute runtime. Child Bloom launched two music movies to accompany the EP. The video for “Sparkle” contains a shirtless Lennon Kessler dancing within the desert and being encircled by dare-devil filth bike riders popping wheelies and leaping off ramps.

The music video for “Stroll With Me” exhibits a centered Child Bloom engaged on an oil pastel self-portrait (the art work was truly executed by his buddy Alessandro Casagrande). Subsequent to Bloom within the video is a carefree model of himself doing a goofy dance, contrasted by an agitated Kessler on a cellphone name that’s not going effectively. Fittingly, the video may be very harking back to Tame Impala’s, “Why Received’t They Discuss To Me?” visualizer, Kevin Parker being a giant inspiration for Child Bloom.

Child Bloom raps the verses on “What U Want,” sounding like Anderson Paak, who additionally hails from SoCal and didn’t break by way of till years of placing within the laborious work (Child Bloom doesn’t have a Wikipedia web page regardless of his tens of millions of streams).  “Really feel It,” the closing music on the EP, was written in simply 5 minutes after wrapping up engaged on the earlier observe “Stroll with Me.”

A straightforward favourite music off the challenge is “Catch My Breath,” maybe as a result of this author can relate to the opening stanza embracing the tip of the unending SoCal summer time:

Shifting in direction of September
I’m dying just like the ember
On the finish of my joint

Lastly cooler climate
Drowning within the warmth wave
Oh boy

Child Bloom’s huge breadth of influences shines by way of in all his initiatives. He can’t be pigeonholed as a 1-dimensional artist. He isn’t following the tendencies, he’s paving his personal manner. He retains evolving and getting higher. Not solely that, he’s prolific, and every launch is exclusive and may be replayed time and again. He may be added to any kind of playlist, seashore, celebration, jog, rap, pop, ’80s, and so on.

Standing on the shoulders of the musical greats that paved the best way, Child Bloom is the personification (musification is outlined as “the musical illustration of knowledge,” but it surely ought to imply what you visualize or really feel when listening to music) of Southern California vibing.

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