Gloom Balloon mastermind Patrick Tape Fleming is just one of 1,247 stars (all of which are also Patrick Tape Fleming) in 2020’s most-fun music video.

Iconoclastic artist’s latest single “All My Feelings For You” earns comparisons to ELO’s Jeff Lynne, McCartney’s cherry-covered solo debut from PopMatters.
 
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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.” — SPIN | “Vaulted, vigorous indie-pop. ” — Paste | “Bright Eyes with a hip-hop groove.” — Glide Magazine
 
“Listen on repeat.” — Des Moines Register | “Deep soundscapes.” — Speak Into My Good Eye
 
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[STREAM]: https://fanatic.lnk.to/GloomBalloon-AllMyFeelingsForYou

 
[VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lJEbB5lPsk
 
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 “All My Feelings For You” by Gloom Balloon
 
PopMatters | Premiere: https://www.popmatters.com/gloom-balloon-all-my-feelings-2647776852.html
 
 “Spearheaded by multi-instrumentalist Patrick Tape Fleming, Gloom Balloon’s new album... riffs on a classic Beatles album (you know which one) and the track ‘All My Feelings For You’ takes some inspiration from a divine latter-day Fab Four cut but the sound of the new track, for which Tape Fleming has filmed a new video, is unmistakably its own tune.
 
Sure, it’s easy to imagine that Jeff Lynne secreted himself away somewhere in Iowa, called up Ringo Starr to play some strict timekeeping drums, threw in some Lennon/McCartney humor, then added doses of lo-fi aesthetics that don’t sound so lo-fi after all. It’s as if McCartney, the 1970 solo debut by Sir Paul, were recorded some 50 years later after he’d had some time to absorb ‘You Get What You Give,’ the deliciously uplifting 1998 single from the short-lived New Radicals deep into his psyche.
 
But, really, Tape Fleming has delivered a beautiful song, the kind of thing that would have been an MTV hit in the glory days of MTV and stands to infect plenty of music-hungry minds in the age of isolation and the growing fear that society itself is on the precipice of utter collapse. If, as Shakespeare didn’t say, music be the balm to soothe the fears of societal annihilation, then play on.” – Jedd Beaudoin, PopMatters
 
Patrick Tape Fleming of Gloom Balloon | About The Song & Video
 
“‘All My Feelings For You’ is a song about falling in love. You know you can’t be wise and in love at the same time. Love makes you irrational, love makes you crazy, love makes you excited, and love makes you a dreamer. Love can make you feel like all is perfect in the world or at least believe it could be! I was thinking about the Beatles song, ‘I’ve Got A Feeling,’ off of ‘Let It Be,’ and I was thinking Paul never actually tells you what his feeling is, it’s deep inside and he can’t hide it, but never says what it is! But then there’s the part where John comes in and sings how ‘everybody had a hard year and everybody had good time, everybody had a wet dream, everybody saw the sunshine.’ This was me sitting down at the piano and just coming up with the feelings I had in my head – the first things I could think of.
 
For the video, I wanted to show what it was like to make a music video during the pandemic and social distancing. I’ve been trying to make a music video for every song on this record and so you kind of have to play all the parts when you’re making music videos yourself. You have to be the star, you have to be the extras, you have to be the director, and you have to be the lighting guy. So you see the music video actually being made in the music video. Which is a very film history thing to do, and the song talks about how, ‘Fellini couldn’t come up with this plot twist,’ so I wanted it to be like a movie set where everything is going wrong and we are seeing it all go wrong!” – Patrick Tape Fleming, Gloom Balloon
 
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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 (STREAM | VIDEO)
20. Don’t Call It A Comeback
 
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