BLOOM // The Ever-Evolving Bloom Sits Down To Chat All Things ‘Bound To Your Whispers’.

At this stage, if you were to be asked, ‘What does Bloom sound like?’ it would almost feel like a trick question.

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It’s an answer that seemingly changes every time the band releases new material. In Passing, the group’s debut EP, cut its teeth on emotive storytelling and melodic instrumentation, Sink Into The Soil and Cold upped the ante with more of a hardcore edge to their roughly tuned rhythms, while their newest single Bound To Your Whispers, sees the Sydney-siders debut their crushing emergence into the realm of metalcore.

They’ve truly done it all. Which is a statement said with much gravity considering their short tenure as a group, but yet, Bloom seem to defy the confines of genre time and time again.

“I would say that with the body of work that we’ve come up with, we’ve kind of taken how we write songs and we’ve pushed them to the extremes on both ends,” states the group’s vocalist Jono Hawkey.

“Bound to Your Whisper is a really good example of us kind of flexing the heavy muscle and I guess with Sink Into The Soil, which was released in January of  last year, that was very much us kind of us hitting our mark in terms of things like big breakdown’s that everyone wants to hear live and then mixing it with really hooky choruses, and I think Bound is a an evolution on top of that.” 

When asked if it’s an evolution that may be indicative of the group’s sound going forward, Hawkey continued, “I wouldn’t say it’s indicative of everything else.”

“I think Bound is one of the one of the recipes that we really like, and we think it hits a lot of the marks where it makes a really great live song. But I don’t think we wanted to write, you know, a body of work that just sounded like that. So even though it’s on the heavier side of all the stuff that we have written, it’s definitely not all going to be like that.”

I think it’s really nice getting sort of everyone involved with it as well. It means that there’s this sort of shared pride, which in my opinion, is the best way to make music.
[ Jono Hawkey ]

“Over the last couple of years of shows, we’ve really worked out what works for us in a live setting. And we’ve found that, those big moments that really resonate with people, whether it’s like a fucking giant breakdown, or a really like big sing along sort of chorus, those are the bits that we love playing live the most. So when it comes to writing more, we’ve kind of wanted to blend those worlds together.”

“We’ve definitely gotten heavier as we’ve written, but I think that’s because we have the most fun doing that live. But I don’t think we ever want to let go of what Bloom does that appeals to a different crowds. Like, the less in your face stuff.” Which of course refers to the group’s poetically driven debut In Passing, which sees Hawkey emotionally unpack the death of his father. Touching on what it’s been like writing since the release of In Passing, Hawkey explained,

“It’s such a tricky one to put into words. In Passing was very introspective and was very much written about something that happened. So to do a follow-up release that’s completely unattached to that can be a little bit tricky. It’s almost like well, I’ve written a whole release on losing someone I love, and now I have to follow that?”

“So a lot of the lyric writing since then has been done collectively, and I think it’s been really good. It’s nice having the load shared, and it’s kind of opened up more to shared experiences within the band, whether that’s things people are going through personally, or  things with family or relationships and stuff. We’ve kind of come together and bonded on that and written a lot of stuff that is directly about that.”

“And I think I think it’s really nice getting sort of everyone involved with it as well. It means that there’s this sort of shared pride, which in my opinion, is the best way to make music.”