Dead Heart Bloom is a rock band currently based in New York City and founded by songwriter Boris Skalsky. The band has released 3 LPs and 3 EPs since its founding in 2005. Members of the band also include guitarist Paul Wood. Both Skalsky and Wood were prior members of acclaimed Washington, D.C. newgaze rock outfit Phaser

Phaser (band)

Phaser was a Washington, D.C. band that wrote, performed and recorded from 1998 to 2005. They released four records including Silverscreen Daydream , Skydive , Sway and Sleeper . Their record Sway was re-released in 2003 on Emperor Norton Records. Their last EP, Sleeper was released in 2005...

. In 2011 it was also announced that they would be joining the band Skysaw, the new project of former Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin

Jimmy Chamberlin

Jimmy Chamberlin is an American drummer, songwriter, and producer. He is best known as the former drummer for the alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. After a drug-related incident with touring keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin in 1996, Chamberlin was fired from the band and joined The Last...

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Critical acclaim

• Rolling Stone
  Rolling Stone
  Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...
  
  lauded the band's EP Fall In in 2008.
• Dead Heart Bloom was featured on NPR
  NPR
  NPR, formerly National Public Radio, is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States. NPR was created in 1970, following congressional passage of the Public Broadcasting...
  
  's open mic in 2006 and Second Stage in 2008.
• Under the Radar
  Under the Radar (magazine)
  Under the Radar is an American magazine that bills itself as "The solution to music pollution" and features interviews with accompanying photo-shoots. Each issue includes opinion and commentary of the Indie music scene as well as reviews on books, DVDs and albums.Items are reviewed based on a...
  
  magazine picked Dead Heart Bloom as one of the "new artists to keep an eye on in 2006".