Bloomfield Machine Finds Human Feeling Inside the Digital Pulse of “algorithm & blues” Album.

Bloomfield Machine’s algorithm & blues places human instinct and machine-made possibility in direct conversation, creating a fifteen-track album where melody, texture, guitar, keyboards, and electronic experimentation continually reshape one another. Built entirely by Huntington Beach-based multi-instrumentalist Brian Kassan, the project remains rooted in an uncompromising DIY philosophy: one artist writing, performing, recording, and mixing every element from his Orange County apartment. That solitude gives the album an unusually intimate character.

The emotional foundation of algorithm & blues comes from a period of loss and impermanence that unsettled Kassan’s sense of stability. Music became his way back toward purpose, functioning less as an escape than as a language for feelings that resist straightforward explanation. That subconscious quality is important to understanding the album. Its compositions do not appear engineered around a single predetermined narrative; they feel discovered through experimentation, as though Kassan is following sounds until they reveal something he did not know he was looking for.

This approach has become increasingly central to Bloomfield Machine. Kassan describes beginning with fragments, sounds, beats, or occasional ideas captured on his phone before exploring an extensive sonic library until a composition emerges. The uncertainty of that process becomes part of the record’s character. Even after finishing an album, he is left wondering how the music came together and whether the next creative spark will arrive.

Algorithm & Blues also broadens the project's musical vocabulary through a stronger guitar presence. Although keyboards remain fundamental to Kassan’s identity, the guitar introduces a more pronounced rock dimension, giving the album additional physical weight without sacrificing its electronic and experimental instincts. Short, melodic pieces become densely detailed listening experiences, rewarding patience and headphones.

Ken Lee’s evocative liner notes deepen the album’s central tension between technology and humanity, imagining machines that can somehow carry emotion while people struggle to make peace with the systems surrounding them. That idea gives algorithm & blues its most compelling philosophical edge.

Bloomfield Machine does not present technology as either hero or villain. The album sits in the uncomfortable middle ground where machines become tools for expressing distinctly human uncertainty. Across fifteen concise compositions, Kassan makes experimentation feel personal, proving that even inside algorithms, glitches, and electronic noise, there remains room for memory, grief, curiosity, and hope.