Pale Bloom is Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys’ seven studio album and most patient record yet — a slow, intimate meditation on growth, inheritance, and what it means to bloom at your own pace. The opening moments of Pale Bloom feel familiar but half-buried. A slowed-down nursery rhyme asks, “Mary, Mary, how contrary? Why did your forest never grow?” What follows is not an answer, but an unfurling — a beat arrives, the band steps in, and something long withheld begins to ...