Bloom

Album · Released 24 January 2025

Bloom

The guitar playing on Bloom is very good. That will probably surprise nobody who knows Larkin Poe. The more useful thing to say is that the songs give the playing somewhere to go. Rebecca and Megan Lovell build the record around clear melodies, strong voices and small changes in feeling that make the familiar roots-rock ingredients work. Mockingbird opens with slide guitar and organ before Rebecca's vocal takes over. It is a warm introduction…