The Elected's Mike Bloom Set Solo Release
. Bloom is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who is co-founder of The Elected with Blake Sennett of Rilo Kiley and a member of Julian Casablancas' band. All of the songs were written, most instruments played, and every song produced and mixed by Mike (with the exception of a few co-productions). His songwriting is at once uniquely his own, and curiously familiar. Songs with more than a little in common with the canon of Carson McCullers abound on King of Circles. The scornful woman in "Floataway Sinner" extracts revenge on her hapless victim, saying "Hold on baby, don't you float away sinner, Gonna pay for your acts, and that's all" � her closing shot reveals a moral compass off course when she explains, "�us long shots ain't supposed to win clean". "Butcher Paper" started life as a guitar piece he recorded � when Jenny Lewis heard it she whipped out a set of lyrics and recorded it over Mike's playing and sent it back to him. An evocative love song with starkly vivid lyrics resulted with this refrain, "Wrapped in twine, the butcher's paper, my bloody heart inside". Longtime friend/bandmate Blake Sennett (Rilo Kiley, The Elected) contributes vocals on "Til It's Over" (The Elected have an album coming out in May as well, Mike co-produced and plays a multitude of instruments) The title track addresses emotional ambiguity as a form of revenge; "Dry Land" paints the picture of a long marriage at its expiration date with gentle acoustic guitar and Bloom's lyric, "�this is the empty glass at the party's end." "Devil's Island" can be heard in the new Sony Pictures thriller, The Roommate.
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