Independent label / Oakland + everywhere

Songs with a longer afterimage.

Static Bloom is a small record label for artists who treat a recording like a place: detailed, strange, warm, and worth returning to.

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Listening system 04 A-side / patient pressure
B-side / bright weather

01 / Current transmissions

Recent releases

Three records currently moving through the Static Bloom system. Digital, physical, and always made by hand.

SB—014

Jun 2026LP / digital

Blue Hour Index

Maris Vale builds nocturnal pop from clipped drums, piano dust, and a voice that refuses the easy turn.

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SB—013

Mar 2026EP / cassette

Soft Machinery

A six-track study in motion by Glass Orchard, recorded between a rehearsal room and a late bus home.

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SB—012

Nov 2025LP / digital

Common Weather

Ellis Park's patient guitar work meets field recordings from the edges of a changing city.

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02 / Label position

A record is a room.

We leave space for the unresolved detail: the breath before a chorus, the hum in the cable, the version that only reveals itself on listen number seven.

Carefully made

Artists keep their point of view. We bring patient production, honest paperwork, and sleeves built to live with.

Deeply local

Our office is one room, our network is many cities, and our releases travel by recommendation.

03 / Field notes

From the margins

Short dispatches from sessions, shops, bedrooms, and the places where a song changes shape.

Notebook 18 / 06.18.26

How to leave a little air

Engineer Noor Sayegh on the tiny decisions that make a chorus feel larger without making it louder.

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Notebook 17 / 05.29.26

The physical side of a digital record

Why the best sleeve for a streaming release is still the one you want to keep on the wall.

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04 / The dispatch

Stay close to the signal.

One useful email when a new record, listening session, or field note is ready. No noise, no algorithmic weather.