Stream: Kid Bloom, ‘Take My Breath Away’

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Kid Bloom, in June at Resident (Photo by Lexi Bonin)
Kid Bloom, in June at Resident (Photo by Lexi Bonin)

Kid Bloom emerged in 2015 with a series of singles, and then last year’s “Different State of Mind” EP, that explored sounds from all over the pop map. At their best was the shape-shifting psych-pop that outstripped the cookie-cutter, retro psych-pop common on the indie scene. For their next act, though, Kid Bloom — Lennon Kloser and Jesse Perlman, along with Alex Canter, Blake Morell and Jackson White — have been kidnapped by ’70s soft-rock and disco, and they apparently weren’t even blindfolded. “We wanted to evoke a celestial Bee Gees vibe,” the band says. “The instrumentation is quite different from anything we’ve ever done, lots of synths and string arrangements. Psych disco.”

Their polyester new single is “Take My Breath Away,” a cocktail of slinky synths, falsetto and vocoded come-hither. It’s the lead track on the quintet’s new EP, “A Long Kiss Goodbye,” due Sept. 29. Slip it into the playlist between the Bee Gees, Ambrosia and Gino Vannelli for the next moonlight dance party on your parents’ yacht. It’s smooth.

||| Stream: “Take My Breath Away”

||| Previously: “I Kissed a Girl, and She Kissed Me,” “Different State of Mind”