Burlesque-act-turned-shoegaze-musical-outfit Uma Bloo have returned with their new album, Don’t Drive Into the Smoke, premiering now on Indie88.
The dreamy album comes packed with shoegaze-laden indie rock anthems. Don’t Drive Into the Smoke explores grief, love, and heartbreak. Ultimately, it’s all about craving love and acknowledging your destiny.
“When I started writing the songs that ended up making the album, I didn’t know I was writing an album,” Uma Bloo’s Molly Madden explains of Don’t Drive Into the Smoke. “I started playing guitar when I was eight years old and it was then I knew I wanted to be a songwriter. Unfortunately, music and art didn’t tie in with my family’s values, so there was a lot that stood in the way of me exercising my abilities and desires. So, I was an on again, off again musician until I got to Chicago at eighteen. Once I accepted the fact that I wanted to create my own music, these songs started pouring out of me in an effort to unpack the life I had and what I thought I wanted to build. In a lot of ways, this album has been in process since I was eight years old without me fully knowing it. So, I’d say this album was inspired by fate and how when you acknowledge destiny you cannot deny it, although that truth doesn’t always result in peace.”
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“At the time I was writing the songs, I thought I was trying to understand myself romantically,” Madden adds. “What was I like to love, what did I need from it? But now that I have a number of years between myself then and now, I realize it’s an album largely about processing loss during a coming of age. I had been feeling like a life I desired was unattainable and living inside of a dream.”
Don’t Drive Into the Smoke features Uma Bloo’s previously released singles “Strange Actress” and “Never Know Me.”
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