Indie-pop songwriter, Kid Bloom has released his highly anticipated debut album Highway via Position Music. The album comes ahead of Kid Bloom’s U.S. headlining tour, which kicks off this September. Listen to it now below.
The word “highway” may seem straightforward enough, but the story behind the title is a complex one. When Kid Bloom (aka Lennon Kloser) thinks about the journey that led him where he is today, he likes to think he ultimately took the “highway,” and now he lives a life where he leads with love and not fear. On another level, Highway is inspired by Frederick Dodson’s book Parallel Universes of the Self, in which the author refers to the paths we create for ourselves as highways.
“I had to go through some shit to figure out who I was and who I wanted to be,” Kloser says. “It’s that idea of elevating yourself and being that light to other people.”
“It’s about getting to know yourself and why you made these decisions,” he explains of the album’s themes. “I write a lot about the shitty stuff, and the satirical aspect of it as well, brings out my character and how I think about stuff. That’s the whole point of it: the idea of just accepting yourself and knowing yourself and being yourself within all this craziness.”
Headlining Tour Dates
9.27 Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room
9.29 Santa Barbara, CA @ SOHO
9.30 Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst Atrium
10.1 San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw
10.2 Sacramento, CA @ Starlet Room @ Harlow’s
10.4 Seattle, WA @ Madame Lou’s @The Crocodile
10.5 Portland, OR @ Holocene
10.7 Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
10.8 Denver, CO @ Lost Lake
10.9 Omaha, NE @ Slowdown (small room)
10.11 Lawrence, KS @ Bottleneck
10.13 Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St. Entry
10.14 Chicago, IL @ Schubas
10.15 Columbus, OH @ The Basement
10.16 Detroit, MI @ El Club
10.20 Cambridge, MA @ Sonia
10.21 Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere: Zone One
10.22 Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry @ The Fillmore
10.23 Washington, DC @ DC9
10.25 Atlanta, GA @ Aisle 5
10.27 Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall (upstairs)
10.28 San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger (small room)
10.29 Fort Worth, TX @ Tulips
11.1 Phoenix, AZ @ Rebel Lounge
11.2 San Diego, CA Voodoo Room @ House of Blues
11.3 Los Angeles, CA @ The Troubadour