FULL BLOOM
This album marks 311’s 14th LP. 311 introduced a host of new producers including Colin Brittain, Tim Pagnotta, Ian Walsh, Evan Anderson as well as long time producer Scotch Ralston and Chad Sexton.
RADIO SINGLES / MUSIC VIDEOS
Directed by Brian Bowen Smith.
Music video and single were released 6/7/24.
Directed by Matt Boda
Music video and single released with album on 10/25/24.
Live performances filmed at 5/9/25 show in Houston, TX at 713 Music Hall, 311 Cruise 2025 and rehearsal at the Hive.
311Archive provided the archival footage.
Directed by Gentle Giant Digital.
Premiered on 311TV episode 1 6/27/25 and released to the public 6/30/25.
TRACK LISTING & SONG WRITERS:
You’re Gonna Get It (Nick Hexum, SA Martinez, Colin Brittain, Elijah Noll)
Need Somebody (Nick Hexum, Colin Brittain, Elijah Noll)
Full Bloom (Nick Hexum, Ian Walsh, Tim Pagnotta)
Friend (Aaron Wills, Chad Sexton, Nick Hexum, Scotch Ralston)
Mountain Top (Nick Hexum, Colin Brittain, Elijah Noll)
New Heights (Nick Hexum, Tim Pagnotta, Sam Hollander, Ian Walsh)
Days Go By (Chad Sexton, Doug Martinez, Nick Hexum)
Persimmon (Doug Martinez, Nick Hexum, Tim Mahoney)
All You’ve Seen (Chad Sexton, Doug Martinez, Nick Hexum, Scotch Ralston)
Braver (SA Martinez, Evan Miles Anderson)
PRODUCERS:
You’re Gonna Get It (Colin Brittain)
Need Somebody (Colin Brittain)
Full Bloom (Tim Pagnotta, Ian Walsh)
Friend (Chad Sexton)
Mountain Top (Colin Brittain)
New Heights (Tim Pagnotta, Ian Walsh)
Days Go By (Chad Sexton)
Persimmon (Scotch Ralston)
All You’ve Seen (Chad Sexton)
Braver (Evan Miles Anderson)
ARTWORK:
Art Direction: Frank Maddocks
Album Art: Dylan Anderson
MIXED:
Colin Brittain and Kevin McCombs
MASTERED:
Emerson Mancini
B-SIDES:
There was only one demo that didn’t get fully worked into a song from the Full Bloom sessions. It was a Chad written tune dubbed Paradox. There’s potential for this song to appear in the future.
BEHIND THE SCENES:
LISTENING PARTY w/ 311:
INSIDE TRACK FROM BANDMEMBERS:
Nick on You’re Gonna Get It: “The story behind the lyrics to ‘You’re Gonna Get It’ is going back into the mindset of when we were young, and dumb and doing a lot of crazy stuff. Sometimes getting away with it, sometimes with consequences. And I’m going in and out of the first person saying to myself, ‘get your stuff together! Or else you’re gonna get it.’
“People have gotten to hear, roughly, in chronological order. The first song I started was You’re Gonna Get It.”
Nick on Need Somebody: “I actually had an experience that formed it. I was at Zuma Beach with the family… And I could see this woman and her son and I could see she was… getting pretty far out there. I was like ‘You need help, don’t you?’ and she was like ‘I do, I do, I do.’ I got my surfboard by her and started draggin them in. The song is about asking for help. We all need somebody.
“So the words to Need Somebody… When you are avoid your fears and secrets they keep growing stronger and stronger. And you need to stay connected with people and tell them what’s really going on… Avoid isolation… It’s kind of a recurring theme in 311.”
Nick on Full Bloom: “The lyrics on Full Bloom is about maintaining some innocence, some wonder. Like ‘Come over and let’s listen to some music together.’ And connecting with people on a simple, non-digital level.”
Chad on Friend: “It was funny how that song came about. I was sitting there, wanting to rock so hard. I wrote 17 riffs. The next day I returned to them and was like ‘No, none of those’. But this one song, this slow song, kept coming out. And I kept trying to ignore it. ‘I don’t wanna do that. I wanna fucking rock.’ And this song just… ‘OK, I’ll follow this and see it through. I gotta do it’. You force something, it just doesn’t turn out great. I tried to ignore it.”
Nick on Friend: “When Chad put out the demo (to us) and there was this meloncoliness to it with the title Friend, it just kinda wrote itself. And I remember we went ‘Sexton goes shoegazy!’
P-Nut on Friend (lyrics): “In the Co-Vid Lockdown times, we all had a chance to reflect on ‘Who, what, why, where, how’ we’re doing our things. It was a time of doubt. It was a lot and great to wrestle with something so heavy. And with as much experience and milage as we have together, you know, (thinking on) the continuence of the band or not. It was something that hadn’t occured to me before. And in that doubt with the ‘who, what, when’, it was all about the rehearsing, the shows and getting back in front of an audience again.”
Nick on Mountain Top: “Til the mountain top, we don’t stop” It’s a neverending journey. You just have to enjoy the process. There is no destination. And the fact that we’re still making songs that we are excited about three decades in is pretty remarkable.
“Lyrically, Mountain Top is processing coming out of the division, talking about unity, keeping everybody together, the love that bonds us as a society, as a band, focusing on our similarities over our differences.”
Nick on New Heights: “The heavy effect you hear on the verses, this swimming kind of sound, when I first played the demo for Chad, he’s said ‘You gotta use that all the way through.'”
“We hadn’t touched dancehall in a while. There’s definitely dancehall rhythms in there. I feel like we hadn’t done a song that was straight up summertime… in the vein of Island Sun or Amber. It has some cool envelope filter guitar. It’s also about taking the journey further, whether its a musical journey or relationship.”
Chad on Days Go By: “An abstract, dreamy, eclectic sort of deal.”
Nick on Days Go By: “Chad put forth a demo with a temporary title and if it envokes something then we sometimes keep the temporary title. I don’t think we need to shy away from the fact that we have a shit ton of experiences. There’s wisdom and perspective that comes from being on your 14th album.”
Tim on Persimmon: “It (Persimmon) was a working title for that.”
Nick on Persimmon: “My buddy… He was telling me about things in marriage and I heard him say, ‘At nighttime, that’s when I’m ready to talk to my wife about everything, so I’m like ‘tell me your stories, tell me your stories.’ I’m like, ‘I’m keeping that.'”
Chad on All You’ve Seen: “All You’ve Seen existed probably since 2013, 2014. We kept pulling it up.”
SA on Braver: “The break that we all had when co-vid hit, it was the perfect time to take a trip. We took a trip to Yellowstone and did a Battle of Little Bighorn. I wanted to go there a long time and I was overwhelmed by it.
“Evan (SA’s nephew) and I had been working on other stuff and he sent this demo to me. The beat was interesting. And I had been ruminating about the trip. I thought what if I took that experience and use an idiom of today and get a feel of what might have gone on in the minds of some of these participants.”
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