Recently, Idle Bloom appeared on NPR’s World Cafe to play songs from their forthcoming Flood the Dial album and be interviewed by Ann Powers.
The performances are, unsurprisingly, excellent as they pair one song from their previously released Little Deaths and two new tracks. The accompanying interview does a great job of going beyond the typical surface discussion of a band’s history and digs into the landscape of being a mixed gender band, the sexism involved with being called a “90’s Throwback” band and how uncomfortable conversations can lead to change.