A vehicle that began as the solo outlet for the multi-instrumentalist Shawn Fogel, these days Golden Bloom is a full band. Fogel takes input from Josh Cohen, Justin Hofmann, and Jeff Patlingrao to help flesh out memorable and universally relatable tunes.<\/p>\n
The band decided to do everything in-house this time, which increased the timeline of the album being made and involved bringing on bassist Matthew Girard. But that move results in a more mature and refined version of an already stunning but sadly underappreciated group.<\/p>\n
\u201cLooking Up To You\u201d starts out with gentle acoustic strumming before building into a fuller jam band explosion of banjos, horns, and contagious ‘woah ohs.’ \u201cCircles Round My Mind\u201d follows with a quaint indie rock feel, reminiscent of Evan Dando, where moody lulls are met with bright melodies. \u201cGreat Unknown\u201d continues the formula but delves into moodier territory and is delivered with a sonically louder feel. At the halfway point, \u201cBooks You Never Read\u201d takes a drastic turn into a bluegrass-y, mountain-esque, breezy listen that is both soulful and soothing. <\/p>\n
The second half of the disc starts with the percussion focused and lap steel friendly \u201cFall Out Of Line\u201d before another sharp turn into the hand clapping, finger snapping, sing-a-long title track \u201cSearching For Sunlight.\u201d Though it’s acoustic based, it’s loud with vocal interplay that just begs to be played around a campfire. \u201cCome Back Home\u201d brings synths into the equation, shifting the band nearly into ’80s New Wave territory. The album exits on the very tame \u201cWant Love,\u201d which brings on celebrity guest vocals from Adam Duritz (Counting Crows), who is also one of the band’s biggest fans.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
While most of this album is upbeat, pop rock based, and full of melodies you won’t soon forget, all eight tracks revolve around thoughts that fill the contemplative recesses of our minds and at time invoke thoughts of sorrow. Seeing as the band sequestered themselves up in Maine to record this disc, it only makes sense that it would come with much mulling; but thankfully, it beams with just as much warmth, sincerity, and timelessness, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":32849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[9883],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-44622","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-golden-bloom","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=44622"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=44622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}