The new and excellent solo debut LP from former Dice drummer and visual artist Hisham Bharoocha, Full Bloom, just wants to (gently) bang on the drum all day, preferably while fiddling with some texturizing knobs and moaning pleasantly in the background.  Full text...

This album’s claims to authenticity grate when the liner notes fore ground Bharoocha’s process: mostly-live guitar-vocals-and-drums-at-the-same-time one takes, no sequencers but simple looping technology, mild overdubbing.  Full text...

Full Bloom is a neo-psych album that breaks the routine of immersion by sometimes almost disappearing—it might be a contradiction, but it’s no battier or less charming than a yoga teacher in north Brooklyn.   Full text...

Full Bloom, Baroocha's debut under the Soft Circle pseudonym, mines the expansive qualities that marked some of his former outfit's best work, though there's a sense of a personal and emotional intimacy that pervades much of the disc, an atmosphere in line with Baroocha's interest the exploration of religious philosophy and spirituality.  Full text...