...Ka-Bloom!

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...Ka-Bloom!
...Ka-Bloom!.jpg
Studio album by
Flowerhead
Released1992
Genre Alternative rock, psychedelic rock
Length46:08
Label Zoo Entertainment [1]
Producer Flowerhead
Flowerhead chronology
Turmoil in the Toybox EP
(1990)		...Ka-Bloom!
(1992)		The People's Fuzz
(1995)

...Ka-Bloom! is the debut album by the American rock band Flowerhead, released in 1992. [2] [3] It sold around 9,000 copies in its first year of release. [4]

Contents

The band supported the album by touring first with Ned's Atomic Dustbin, and then with Blind Melon. [5] [6]

Production

The album was produced by the band; they had tried to enlist John Paul Jones to produce, but he did not have an opening in his schedule. [7] [8] It was recorded at Smart Studios, in Madison, Wisconsin. [9]

...Ka-Bloom!'s final track, "Sunflower", runs for another 14 minutes past its listed length. [10]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Calgary Herald B− [11]
Los Angeles Daily News Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [12]

Trouser Press wrote: "Replete with too many long songs—most of them of the sterile, neo-psychedelia-cum-'70s-stadium-shaker variety—...ka-BLOOM! is background music for the indiscriminate stoner, as common-sounding as a car horn." [13] The Chicago Tribune opined that "the acid-drenched atmosphere and molten riffing are throwbacks to the dawn of metal." [8] The Calgary Herald wryly noted that "it's like the '60s meet Flaming Lips meet Jesus Jones meet thundering guitars blessed by Timothy Leary meet just about anybody who's ever copped an acid-rock lick." [11] The Los Angeles Daily News praised the "highly imaginative" guitarist Eric Schmitz." [12]

The Sun Sentinel concluded that "although ...ka-BLOOM! is abundant with powerful, raw guitar riffs; although there are one or two songs, like 'Sunflower', that may be successful singles; although the so-far-uninspiring band has definite potential; this 60-minute track doesn't sound any different from what's out there already." [14] The Ottawa Citizen determined that "high points (excuse the pun) from this appealingly ragged garage-type boogie band are the groove tunes—'Acid Reign', 'All Along The Way', and 'What?!'" [15] The Province deemed it "big guitar rock with psychedelic droning and syncopated drumming ... English conceit; American muscle." [16] The Fort Worth Star-Telegram declared that Flowerhead "is the most ill-talented, deplorable band that's ever coasted out of Austin's music scene onto a major label." [17]

Track listing

  1. Acid Reign - 5:07
  2. All Along the Way - 2:50
  3. Thunderjeep - 5:51
  4. Snagglepuss - 5:44
  5. Everything is Beautiful - 3:30
  6. Oh Shane - 7:22
  7. What?! - 3:46
  8. Coffee - 6:40
  9. Sunflower - 5:18

Personnel

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  2. ↑ "Flowerhead Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic.
  3. ↑ Koster, Rick (May 8, 2000). "Texas Music". Macmillan – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ Szilagyi, Pete (21 Oct 1993). "SPINNING POPULARITY INTO SALES // Critical acclaim doesn't mean commercial success for Austin albums". Austin American-Statesman. Onward. p. 3.
  5. ↑ "Club Notes". The Salt Lake Tribune. 5 Feb 1993. p. C5.
  6. ↑ Maher, Timothy J. (April 1, 1993). "FLOWERHEAD'S 'KA-BLOOM!' IS JUST TYPICAL GRUNGE". York Daily Record. p. D1.
  7. ↑ "Album Reviews -- ... ka Bloom! by Flowerhead". Billboard. 104 (50): 48. Dec 12, 1992.
  8. 1 2 Kot, Greg (22 Jan 1993). "Budding Flowerhead is ready to bloom". Chicago Tribune. Friday. p. 5.
  9. ↑ Wisneski, Laura (July 3, 1997). "Shakin' It". Wisconsin State Journal. p. 51.
  10. ↑ McLeese, Don (17 Nov 1992). "Flowerhead . . . ka-BLOOM!". Austin American-Statesman. p. D6.
  11. 1 2 Muretich, James (14 Feb 1993). "RECENT RELEASES". Calgary Herald. p. C4.
  12. 1 2 Shuster, Fred (February 26, 1993). "SOUND CHECK - ROCK". Los Angeles Daily News. p. L36.
  13. ↑ "Flowerhead". Trouser Press. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  14. ↑ Cheng, Joanna (31 July 1994). "FLOWERHEAD: ... ka-BLOOM!". Sun Sentinel. p. 3G.
  15. ↑ Saxberg, Lynn (20 Feb 1993). "New crop of bands rises from the South". Ottawa Citizen. p. F3.
  16. ↑ Harrison, Tom (7 Apr 1993). "Conceit - and muscle". The Province. p. B7.
  17. ↑ Mayhew, Malcolm (April 10, 1993). "Sour Flower - Please don't pick this Flowerhead". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. p. 1D.
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