Superbloom Celebrate 5-Year Anniversary of ‘Pollen’

The Brooklyn rock group Superbloom made a bunch of new merchandise available to celebrate the five-year anniversary of their debut album, ‘Pollen’, released on June 1^st, 2021.  

The album featured lots of great grunge to feast on.  Dave Hoon, Matteo Dix, Tim Choate and Brian DiMeglio brought out some fine songs to rock out: “Pollen”, “Whatever”, “Mary on a Chain” and “1994” were some highlights.  It feels like a tribute to 1994 in some ways but there are some production signs that indicate it was recorded in the 2020s.  Most of the album is made up of grunge songs with occasional breaks in the blistering rhythms for stuff like the acoustic, “Muzzle”. 

Back in 2021, bassist Brian DiMeglio spoke with Atwood Magazine;

“While Dave and Tim were lifelong friends, Matteo and myself were new to them and each other. This record is a sonic photograph of how we’ve fused together over these endless days shaking the walls together.

We all had a collective desire to make a strong full length with no filler. The tracklist evolved several times over – write, destroy, rebuild. During the last bursts of writing for the LP in early-mid 2020 before our deadline to submit for mixing, as new ideas came in, we just sliced off the weakest links one by one. The final tracklist is unrecognizable from the draft tracklist for the LP.”

Last year, the ‘I Hope Your Demos Die’ compilation was issued to the public featuring a bunch of demos from various Superbloom songs including several from ‘Pollen’. 

Hopefully Superbloom keep their rock music alive with another album in the near future.