B-Side Guys

The first thing you notice about Alex Bloom’s “My Room” isn’t the gentle synth pulse or the way his falsetto navigates the song’s unhurried tempo—it’s how completely the track inhabits its own title. This isn’t bedroom pop that happens to be about bedrooms; it’s a piece of music that feels architecturally designed to exist within the four walls it celebrates, where every sonic choice reinforces the sanctuary-like quality Bloom has discovered in solitude.

Bloom’s approach to production mirrors the comfort he finds in familiar spaces. Each element occupies its designated place without crowding the mix, creating an environment where mid-tempo synths can breathe alongside syncopated drums without competing for attention. The arrangement suggests someone who’s learned that true comfort comes not from filling empty space but from making peace with the emptiness itself.

His vocal performance carries the particular intimacy of someone singing to themselves, unaware they’re being overheard. The falsetto doesn’t reach for emotional peaks so much as it settles into the song’s natural contours, finding warmth in restraint rather than display. There’s something deeply honest about how Bloom approaches melody here—his voice moves like someone lost in thought, following internal logic rather than external expectation.

What emerges is a meditation on the radical act of finding contentment in stasis. While “My Room” functions as the lead single from Bloom’s upcoming autobiographical album Across the Country—a project explicitly about movement, change, and geographical displacement—this track anchors itself in the opposite impulse. It’s about the profound relief of having somewhere to return to when the world becomes overwhelming.

The video game cartridge conceit adds another layer to this exploration of interior space, suggesting that the room itself might be both real and virtual, a place that exists as much in memory and imagination as in physical reality. Bloom has crafted not just a song but a sonic architecture, a space listeners can inhabit when they need their own sanctuary.