Kevin Bronson on February 21st, 2023

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Catching up with new singles from Kid Bloom, Maraschino and Frankie Rose …

KID BLOOM, “Walk With Me”

The follow-up to his album “Highway” (see, especially, “I Fell in Love Again”), singer-songwriter Lennon Kloser is back with the new Kid Bloom single, “Walk With Me.” Not unlike fellow pop craftsman Finneas, Kid Bloom infuses relatable lyrics with high energy and palpable charm. “‘Walk with Me’ is about a time I was in Turkey and I was walking barefoot back to where I was staying,” Kloser says. “I literally stumbled upon a broken porcelain box. It almost sliced my toe clean off. I still have nightmares about it, but at the same time it brings back memories of a younger, simpler me.” The artwork for the single, by the way, is the work of Venezuelan-Italian artist Alessandro Casagrande; see it in the visualizer for the track.

MARASCHINO, “Kamikaze”

After “Angelface,” “Hi Desire” and “Smoke & Mirrors,” “Kamikaze” is the fourth single from Piper Durabo’s debut album as Maraschino, “Hollywood Piano,” out March 3. It’s an airy disco number on an album full them, and seemingly all ready for inevitable remixes. “This one’s about embracing the duality of being one’s own greatest ally and worst enemy on what feels like an infinite quest for peace within the chaotic world we all share,” Durabo says. “I wrote it during a difficult and isolating period in my life when a lot of situations and relationships that mattered to me fell away, despite my best efforts to hold on to them. I think there’s liberation in surrendering to the inevitability of your circumstances and committing to a path of evolution because “the positive always triumphs, whatever the odds, and this realization is itself the seed of the cure.” Maraschino performs March 20 at Resident.

FRANKIE ROSE, “Come Back”

Oh, nothing to see here, just another vintage-sounding indie-pop gem from Frankie Rose. Seriously, though, Rose’s first album in almost six years, “Love As Projection,” is out March 10 via Slumberland. And like preceding singles “Anything” and “Sixteen Ways,” “Come Back” hones in on the dreamy post-punk that characterized “indie-pop” in the genre’s early years. Rose goes heavier on the synths and electronics here, but it’s no less euphoric.