Hazlett - Bloom Mountain [White]

Hazlett's Bloom Mountain is a gentle, wide-open debut album full of quiet confessions, pressed here on 140-gram white vinyl in a gatefold jacket.

Raised in Brisbane and now based in Sweden, the Australian singer-songwriter spent years building a devoted audience with a run of EPs before releasing this first full-length in 2023. It gathers his soft, unhurried voice and acoustic guitar into a warm indie folk set, with arrangements that leave plenty of room for the songs' tender honesty to come through. His songs favour small, specific details over big statements, which makes them feel all the more personal.

Songs like "Everybody Hates Me" and "Skeletons" turn self-doubt and old ghosts into lullaby-soft melodies, the kind that feel like comfort even when the words sting. "Oh Downhill" shares its name with the EP that came before it, and "Hesitate" brings in OSKA for a duet that adds a second, gently complementary voice to the album's hushed world.

It is music for slow mornings and the quiet hours after dark, a record that never raises its voice and never needs to. White vinyl suits its soft, airy glow, and the gatefold makes it a lovely thing to hold while the songs do their work.