Bloom
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Bloom

the second record.

MAY 18, 2026 · LP / STREAMING
Sofia Reyes — singer-songwriter

Twelve songs about leaving the farm and learning, slowly, how to grow somewhere new.

PRESS & RADIO
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THE RECORD

Twelve songs,
recorded in a barn.

Tracked live to tape over nine days in a hay barn outside Phoenicia, New York. Acoustic guitar, upright bass, brushed drums, and a small string trio on four songs. No click track — you can hear the room breathe.

CATALOG
BLOOM-002 · CD / LP / digital
Folkways imprint · 2026
Total runtime — 49:36
TRACKLIST · 12 DURATION
  1. 01 Bloom 4:08
  2. 02 Mama’s Garden 3:48
  3. 03 Berkshire in May 5:24
  4. 04 Apple Wine 3:31
  5. 05 The Long Way Down the Hill ft. Liana Crowe 4:52
  6. 06 Winter Tenants 3:09
  7. 07 Tin Roof, Hard Rain 5:17
  8. 08 Cardinal 3:44
  9. 09 Phoenicia ft. The Catskill Strings 4:36
  10. 10 Half a Field of Clover 3:02
  11. 11 Ohio Pawnshop Guitar 4:01
  12. 12 Bloom (Reprise) ft. The Catskill Strings 4:04
“I packed the truck in the dark so the dog wouldn’t wake — every plant in the garden still asleep, not knowing I was gone.”
— FROM “MAMA’S GARDEN”, TRACK 02

What they’re
saying about Bloom.

Pitchfork 7.6
“Gentle, weighty — Reyes writes the small domestic image and lets it carry the whole grief of a decade.”
REVIEW · APRIL 2026
Folk Radio UK ★★★★½
“A songwriter at peak craft. Bloom never raises its voice, and never needs to.”
ALBUM OF THE MONTH
NPR Music FEATURED
“The best folk debut of 2024 was Sofia’s first album. This one is even better.”
NEW MUSIC FRIDAY
No Depression ROOTS
“Recorded to tape in a Catskills barn, you can hear the floorboards. It feels less like a record than an invitation indoors.”
FIRST LISTEN
Uncut 8/10
“The string trio on ‘Phoenicia’ arrives like weather. A quietly devastating sophomore album.”
PRINT EDITION · MAY 2026
The Guardian ★★★★☆
“Reyes turns leaving home into something almost holy — twelve songs that grow on you like ivy.”
FOLK ALBUM OF THE WEEK
ON TOUR · THE BLOOM LISTENING ROOMS

Small rooms,
close enough to whisper.

14 dates across listening rooms, folk clubs, and a handful of literal house concerts. Every show seated, every show acoustic.

MAY 22 The Parlor Room Northampton, MA Tickets →
MAY 24 Club Passim SOLD OUT Cambridge, MA SOLD OUT
MAY 27 A House Concert on Maple St. Hudson, NY Tickets →
MAY 30 Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2 New York, NY Tickets →
JUN 03 Johnny Brenda’s SOLD OUT Philadelphia, PA SOLD OUT
JUN 06 The Barns at Wolf Trap Vienna, VA Tickets →
JUN 09 Eddie’s Attic Decatur, GA Tickets →
JUN 12 The Basement Nashville, TN Tickets →
JUN 15 A House Concert on Bell Ave. Asheville, NC Tickets →
JUN 19 The Hideout SOLD OUT Chicago, IL SOLD OUT
JUN 22 Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis, MN Tickets →
JUN 26 Old Town School of Folk Music Denver, CO Tickets →
JUN 29 A House Concert in Laurelhurst Portland, OR Tickets →
JUL 02 Freight & Salvage Berkeley, CA Tickets →

House concert host? Write [email protected] — we’re still adding living rooms.

LIVE VIDEO

Mama’s Garden, filmed on the lawn at Newport.

Editorial music wide photograph from behind a crowd at a sunset open-air festival with hands raised and warm stage lights against a pink-orange sky
4:48
LIVE SESSION
Mama’s Garden
Live at Newport Folk Festival · 4:48
SOFIA REYES · 2026
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MONTHLY LISTENERS
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ABOUT THE ARTIST

A farm girl who
found a city to miss it from.

Sofia Reyes grew up on forty acres of dairy land in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts, the kind of place where the nearest streetlight was a town over. She learned guitar on her grandmother’s nylon-string, picked apples every September, and spent most of her teens convinced the rest of the world was happening somewhere she wasn’t. At nineteen she packed a truck before dawn and drove south.

Brooklyn took the better part of a decade to forgive her for not being the country. She waited tables in Greenpoint, played open mics until the rooms started filling, and in 2024 released her debut, First Frost — NPR called it the best folk debut of that year. But the songs that became Bloom kept pulling her back upstate, toward gardens and tin roofs and the people she’d left mid-sentence.

So she went home to make it. Bloom was recorded over nine days in a hay barn outside Phoenicia, New York, the band tracking live to tape with the doors open. A string trio drove up from the city for two of the sessions. It is a record about leaving — and about the slow, unglamorous work of putting down roots somewhere new, and learning to call that home too.

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VINYL
Bloom — LP
180g rose-marbled vinyl, gatefold sleeve with full lyrics.
$32
COMPACT DISC
Bloom — CD
Digipak edition with a 16-page booklet of barn-session photos.
$14
PRINT
2026 Tour Poster
18×24" letterpress, illustrated by Sofia. All 14 dates listed.
$24
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“Mama’s Garden” in Sofia’s hand, signed & numbered, archival paper.
$48
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