New Jersey indie rock band, Sonic Blume have released their new album, All Your Favorite Songs. Produced by Erik Kase Romero (The Front Bottoms, Lorde, Gaslight Anthem), engineered by Danny Gibney (Illiterate Light) and recorded at Lakehouse Recording Studios in Asbury Park, New Jersey, the new album evolves on the band’s signature dream-pop sound by drawing inspiration from late 90’s, early 2000’s alternative rock. Listen to it now below.
While in the studio for All Your Favorite Songs the band engaged in some unorthodox and experimental recording techniques to achieve sounds that felt unique and exciting. A long time coming, the writing for the album began in late 2021, and emanated from feelings of anxiety about reentering the world post pandemic lockdown. Some of the themes present on this album are centered around the mundaneness of life, youthful naivety and not feeling comfortable in your own skin.
Sonic Blume will be celebrating this album with their release show on December 29th at The Asbury Lanes.
The band is comprised of Max Connery on vocals/guitar/synth, Danny Murray on drums, Noah Sullivan on guitar/synth, and James Waltsak on bass. The band formed in 2016, when the high school friends discovered they shared a mutual love of 80s inspired indie music. They released their debut self-titled EP in late 2017, winning them the Asbury Music Award for Best New Band (under 21), with a follow up EP in 2018 “Beach Karma,” both to rave reviews, landing them on NJ.com’s Top NJ Bands to Hear in both 2019 and 2020. They then simultaneously signed to NJ based Shore Point Records while going off to separate colleges in NYC and Philly, to study music, but keeping Sonic Blume very much alive and well, by breaking into both cities respective music scenes.
During the pandemic lockdown, they focused their time on writing their first LP and in 2021, released ‘We’re Drifting Further Apart, Aren’t We?’, named best Indie Album by NJ’s Elephant Talk Music Magazine and embarked on their first tour, playing venues from Boston to Charleston. They have provided direct support for notable recording artists joe p, flipturn, quinnie, and The Happy Fits. Earmilk Magazine wrote “Sonic Blume have created a dream-pop world of their own, where their melodic tendencies flow in the direction of an ethereal soundscape to bask within,” suggesting they’d fit nicely in the Captured Tracks catalog with comparisons to the Beach Fossils and Wild Nothing.