Liv Bloore
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Liv Bloore explores devotion and desire on debut EP 'In Heaven, After Hours' & shares final single, ‘A Prophet For A Sin’.
Emerging producer and classically trained multi-instrumentalist Liv Bloore (she/they) introduces her debut EP ‘In Heaven, After Hours’, arriving alongside its final single, ‘A Prophet For A Sin’. Written and produced over four years, the project captures a period of personal and artistic transition, mapping a move from rural Suffolk to London, experiences of love and loss, and an evolving relationship with religion.
Blending classical training with contemporary production, and shoegaze textures, ‘In Heaven, After Hours’ moves between sparse, intimate ballads and more textural, experimental moments. The contrast feels deliberate, tradition sits alongside independence and restraint alongside release. Across the EP, Bloore explores relationships in their many forms - romantic, spiritual, and internal - with a sound that mirrors that tension.
Speaking on the story behind the EP’s lead single, Bloore shares:
“A Prophet For A Sin is about my relationship with love and religion. It’s about trading ‘a prophet’ (a chaste, reserved and peaceful life) for ‘a sin’ (a life of love, heartbreak and turmoil). It’s about outgrowing a religious upbringing, and being openly willing to trade a pious life for the one you love - but also praying, just in case God is watching.”
The track draws on literary imagery, particularly Miss Havisham from Great Expectations - a figure suspended in time, waiting indefinitely for a love that never returned. This sense of stillness and devotion runs through lines like “I would be your bride / I’d wait at the altar”, culminating in the EP’s closing image: “in heaven, after hours, let’s meet at the wishing well” - a private, imagined space beyond both faith and reality.
Across the wider project, Bloore reflects on queerness, grief, nostalgia, and chronic illness, grounding abstract themes in lived experience.
“The lyrics map a period of huge change in my life, Falling in love, losing loved ones, battling with chronic health issues, regaining strength in my body all the while constantly thinking about how closely religion and music are tied together”.
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The EP follows a series of earlier singles, ‘The Darling Song’, ‘Sing For Me’ and ‘Her Flowers’, which introduced listeners to Bloore’s detailed, self-produced world. The project has been praised for its attention to detail from tastemakers like BBC Introducing, and International media outlets, which stands as a strong foundation for a debut project. With ‘A Prophet For A Sin’, the project reaches its emotional centre: a point of release after sustained tension.
To mark the release, Liv Bloore will perform a headline show at The Forge at The Lower Third in London on 24 April, presenting the EP live with a full band for the first time. Limited tickets available here.
Liv Bloore (she/they) is a producer and classical multi-instrumentalist with an indie-rock obsession. Having grown up in rural Suffolk and studying classical music at Cambridge University her influences are an unusual mixture of a love for medieval choral music, and a fixation on female indie rock artists including Ethel Cain, Florence + The Machine, Wolf Alice and boygenius. Twisting these two genres together, Liv’s sound blends weaves together layers of harmonies, melodic piano runs, soaring theatrical vocals, string arrangements and poetic lyrics all backed with a heavy dose of distorted guitar and spacey drums. Starting every song with the words, her lyrics explore themes of emotional intimacy, queerness, grief, nostalgia, childhood, and the constant question of religion.
‘In Heaven, After Hours’ is available now via APOLLO Distribution.
