Gloom Balloon video combines writer in Des Moines, filmmaker in Saint-Petersburg, vocalist in Zambia. Ambitious album out Sept. 25th.

“Dropping in with a funky beat that brings to mind Bright Eyes with a hip-hop groove… shimmering pop psychedelia,” says Glide Magazine.
 
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 Patrick Tape Fleming of Gloom Balloon as photographed by Joelle Blanchard
 
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Gloom Balloon | In The Press
 
“Full of surprises... Blindsides the listener in such a totally welcome way.” — SPIN
 
“Vaulted, vigorous indie-pop... into the experimental realm of spacey-jazz and electro-lounge grooves.” — Paste
 
“Deep soundscapes that play with lo-fi sonics and swelling strings.” — Speak Into My Good Eye
 
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Gloom Balloon
So Bergman Uses Bach To Get His Point Across, I Feel Like I Have Chosen Rock But At What A Cost
Sept. 25^th, 2020
(Grand Phony Music)
  

Track Listing:
01. Tru Love Waits (LYRIC VIDEO)
02. Bergman Bach Rock (Not Burt Bacharach)
03. All Is Phair
04. Long Distance Love (Waterloo Sunrise)
05.. Beer Friend Forever
06. A Second Chance
07. In Our Dreams We Are Beautiful and Free
08. Did Anybody Leave Any Toothpaste Here?
09. Burnt Bridge Over Troubled Waters
10. Nicotine Glaze
11. Les Miserable
12. The Grass Is Always Green
13. Credits Roll Up, Tears Roll Down, Your Love Is Like The Sound Of The Rain Hitting The Ground (STREAM | VIDEO)
14. Advice On How To Write A Song
15. Sweet Women With The Sepia Stare
16. Bat Stick Crazy
17. Libras Don't Like To Be Alone (Except Logan)
18. Long Distance Love (Waterloo Sunset) (STREAM | VIDEO)
19. All My Feelings For You
20. Don't Call It A Comeback
 
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About | “Long Distance Love (Waterloo Sunset)” by Gloom Balloon
 
[STREAM]: https://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/gloom-balloon-long-distance-love-waterloo-sunset
 
[VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1G1LoReuio
 
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“Dropping in with a funky beat that brings to mind Bright Eyes with a hip-hop groove, Patrick Tape Fleming layers in soulful background vocals and harmonies along with a cacophony of instruments and musical effects to give the song a shimmering pop psychedelia,” says Glide Magazine in its premiere of “Long Distance Love (Waterloo Sunset),” the first single from the epic new album by Gloom Balloon, out Sept. 25^th, 2020 via Grand Phony Music.
 
The video for “Long Distance Love (Waterloo Sunset),” streaming now at New Noise Magazine, was filmed by Cotton Bro who is based in Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
 
“I got the footage from him and edited it,” says Tape Fleming. “I kinda wanted it to feel like the scene in ‘Virgin Suicides’ when kids are calling each other over the phone and playing records to each other, but in our video, they are writing songs to send to one another because (as the lyrics state) long distance love is not the worst. But it always makes a young lover’s heart feel like it’s going burst.”
 
He continues, “The song is perfect for the moment, because during a pandemic, even someone you love who might be just down the street seems like a long distance love if you are social distancing. This song was actually recorded long distance, too, as Mumbi Kasumba, who does the female lead vocals on this song, was in Zambia. I really wanted her to sing on the song, so she found a studio, and I sent her the track and lyrics via e-mail and she recorded her vocals at The Native Studios in Lusaka, Zambia where a recording studio only costs 80 dollars a day!”
 
Tape Fleming lists no less than 32 instruments attributed to himself (including Static Electricity, Box of Bulbs, and of course, Balloons) in his upcoming new album’s liner notes, before going on to rattle off another 22 participants in this recording. At a time when people are isolated, and artists are making recordings that reflect isolation, Gloom Balloon’s latest, with its Sgt. Pepper’s-riffing cover and compelling short story of a title, So Bergman Uses Bach To Get His Point Across, I Feel Like I Have Chosen Rock But At What A Cost, sounds communal, and that’s needed.
 
For fans of Tape Fleming, they will hear all of what he does. Self-described as “multi-dimensional,” “positively celestial,” and “a shape-shifting pastiche of blissful melodies, heavenly harmonies, female background vocals, and orchestral flourishes,” the expansive, nearly impossible scope of Gloom Balloon’s recordings go head to head on So Bergman Uses Bach To Get His Point Across... with more personal prose than ever before.
 
Bergman Uses Bach To Get His Point Across, I Feel Like I Have Chosen Rock But At What A Cost, the third album by Gloom Balloon, is out Sept. 25^th, 2020 on Grand Phony.
 
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