Regarding Late Season Blooms, the indie garage rock band with a foundation set down in the Greater Bay Area of San Francisco, there is no question about how raw and emo they enjoy getting, as showcased by the latest single, “Whole Night Heartache.” Taken from their forthcoming third album, “A Curious Recollection of All That Might Have Been,” the song is a standout, a heart-wrenching burst of energy that serves as a microcosmic example of the album’s larger themes of memory, heartbreak, and healing.
“Whole Night Heartache” will elbow your head like an old chest pang that steals in when the world slows down enough to let sounds and thoughts settle in. It draws on the band’s alt-country influences while reflecting back their garage rock origins, equal parts gritty snarl on the one hand and cantilevered melody on the other. With jangling guitars, heart-on-sleeve vocals, and a rhythm that mirrors the anxious pulse of post-midnight regret, the track captures the enduring weight of love lost. This is how it feels, holding on to something that’s forever out of reach.
Late Season Blooms is compelling in their ability to inject emotional weight into arrangements that still sound alive and propulsive. “Whole Night Heartache” is cathartic and catchy, a contradiction in its favor. You can hear the exhaustion in the delivery, but it’s buoyed by a sense of movement forward that the narrator is pushing through the pain rather than being swallowed up by it.
The track is a companion piece to the broader topic explored in “A Curious Recollection of All That Might Have Been,” a nine-song venture that guides you through the peaks and troughs of reminiscence. Other featured singles like “She’s The Only Girl For Me” and “The Thought Eludes Me” give depth to an album that sounds as soul-searching as it does upbeat.
Already out on all the big streaming sites and launched via CD Baby, the album will soon be available in hard copy via Bandcamp from the band’s site. For those who like emotional songwriting with a coating of distortion and Americana hues, “Whole Night Heartache” is a striking introduction to Late Season Blooms. With this latest release, the band makes the case that reflection can be loud, teem with restlessness and drama, and be beautiful and unresolved.
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