Liv Bloore

Singer-songwriter and producer Liv Bloore returns with quietly unsettling yet striking single "Sing for me".

Emerging alt folk-rock artist and producer Liv Bloore (she/they) returns with her second single, ‘Sing For Me’, a haunting and quietly unsettling track that places her vocals firmly at the centre. Gliding over swelling string arrangements, ethereal melodies, and vivid storytelling, the song carries a sense of weightlessness while maintaining a sinister, more ominous undercurrent.

Written in the period just after leaving university, ‘Sing For Me’ reflects a time of emotional displacement for Bloore, navigating long-distance love while living far from friends, and grappling with a shifting sense of home.

“My understanding of what ‘home’ was to me became really distorted. The opening lyric ‘wait for me, I’ll be on the last train home’ was written when I was homesick listening to lots of sad folk music on my long train journeys to see my partner.”

she explains.

Lyrically, the song draws on the Greek myth of Icarus as a metaphor for love that becomes controlling. The refrain ‘let me clip your wings for you’ captures the impulse to keep someone from leaving at any cost.

Bloore expands on this imagery through a personal lens, recalling their mother keeping bees: clipping a queen’s wings to stop her from flying away, and taking the hive with her.

“I had this feeling that if I left the situation I was in, my whole life would unravel and I would lose everything”,

she says.

It is that feeling of knowing a love is doomed, and you’d rather take both of you down to the ‘bottom of it all’ than let anyone fly away.”

The production mirrors this emotional tension. Echoing distorted guitars, low murmuring harmonies, sombre cello lines and eerie slide guitar sit beneath Bloore’s restrained but expressive vocal delivery. Drawing inspiration from artists such as Mitski, Searows, Skullcrusher and Ethel Cain, the track balances intimacy with unease, allowing moments of quiet to feel just as heavy as its crescendos.

Outside of musical influences, Bloore weaves in personal details that ground the song further. The track’s outro features church bells sampled from Aldeburgh, Suffolk, where her grandmother lived until the end of her life, adding a subtle human touch that deepens the song’s emotional pull.

‘Sing For Me’ follows on the heels of Bloore’s debut single ‘The Darling Song’, which introduced them with a softer, love-struck vulnerability and received praise from publications including Songs Behind The Music, Loud Women, Kickdrum Mag, Caveat, Babystep, TuneFountain, Bizzarre, Whoisblank, Breakmixtape, Ones To Watch, New Sounds Union, and Chess Club Records.

The track also received radio plays on BBC Introducing, and was played as NMG’s track of the week. Where her debut leaned into tenderness and yearning, ‘Sing For Me’ reveals a darker, more meditative side of her songwriting.

Liv Bloore 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

With only two releases to date, Liv Bloore is still unfolding the world of her artistry. Drawing on alternative folk influences alongside elements of classical and shoegaze, her forthcoming debut EP, due later this year, promises a rich and varied body of work, marking her as an artist quietly curating a distinctive and compelling voice.