New York City’s Blums, the project of songwriter and musician Kelsea Feder, is excited to announce her signing to Brooklyn-based indie label, Take Care Records.
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ABOUT BLUMS:
As Blums, Brooklyn-based musician Kelsea Feder makes all we can’t touch tangible: the edge of a world crumbling, an art-pop fantasia spinning in a cycle it’s determined to break, the sound of our own eruption. Having honed her technical chops playing and singing with fellow New York scene fixtures like fantasy of a broken heart, May Rio, and Shallowhalo—all while working through a slow recording process with co-producer Kirk Palsma—her first full-length release arrives as a collage of all the selves she’s been on the road to its release. From a childhood spent tearing up old Hollywood musical VHS tapes, to a stint working in a jazz bar during which she started writing her own material, to time spent gigging with her own power-pop band around Bushwick, it all bleeds into the record’s ephemeral, glitchy soundscape, stitched together by lyrics itching to escape the wheel their writer has been spinning on. It’s nearly impossible to hold the universes of feeling that exist within one person through any artistic medium, but through Blums—whose sound builds on both a storied singer-songwriter tradition and the chaos of the record’s largely experimental creative process—Feder dreams up a fantasy world you can dare to hold in your own hands, if only for the length of a pop song.
Speaking about the new song and video ( "Sinking/Soaring"), Kelsea shares, “The song comes from a place of being trapped in the head, self-obsessed, miserable, tormented by loneliness, and disgusted because I was aware my problems are so small compared to the world at large. I wrote this in 2019. The previous year I was working as a hostess at a jazz club so I feel like I had a lot of that in my head, or at least the image of ‘jazz singer.’ I was living with Sasha Berliner, a dear friend of mine and a jazz vibraphonist. She plays some vibraphone on this track (as well as keys), and when I was stumped on where to go I played it for her and she gave me the perfect missing chord for the 2nd and 3rd choruses. Kirk, my incredibly brilliant producer, had me write out certain syllables of each word and sing them in different melodies to do this incredible weird effect at the bridge, freaky genius style.”
