PASS THROUGH HERE

Pass Through Here is a new album from Connecticut folk icon Kath
Bloom, her first for five years.
Beginning to perform in the late 70s, Kath is renowned for her 80s
private-press recordings with avant-garde guitarist Loren Connors, as
well as signature tune Come Here from the soundtrack to Richard
Linklater film Before Sunrise, Over the last 35 years, she has come to
be revered around the world for her devastatingly emotional songwriting.
Devendra Banhart has called her "one of the most beautiful
singers ever," while Pitchfork says "she can snap a heart like a twig."
Chapter brought Kath's music to a renewed audience with solo compilation
Finally in 2005 and new album Terror in 2008, as well as reissues
of four of the six Kath/Loren albums as double CD sets, Then
in 2009, Chapter released celebrated tribute album Loving Takes This
Course, featuring covers by the likes of Bill Callahan, Devendra Banhart,
Josephine Foster and Mark Kozelek.
Since then, Kath has recorded for Mark Kozelek's Caldo Verde label,
including Thin Thin Line (2010) and 2012 EP Here I Am.
For Pass Through Here, Kath travelled far from her Connecticut home
to record in California with a coterie of freewheeling West Coast folk
rock types, including engineer Jeff Hassay and fellow performer Levi
Strom, It's a distinctive new sound for Kath, uplifted by floating
synthesizers and disembodied choruses, while retaining the direct
simplicity and power for which she is loved.
Kath faces turbulence head-on in Criminal Side, while Let the Music
Come condenses her 60-something years of music-making into two
incredibly affecting minutes, Bubble Bath is Kath at her most idiosyncratic
and touching, while Shirt Off Song is an anthem to the wayard
men in her life.
Songs are recorded in just a few takes, vocals are captured raw and
honest, but the overall impression is as masterful as it is ramshackle.
For Kath Bloom, music has never been about finesse but always
about feeling, Pass Through Here is emotional, uplifting, haunting and
heartwarming songwriting from a master of her craft.