Track Listing

1. Sweet Little Truth
2. After Hell
3. One More Good Night With The Boys
4. Rain Falling
5. I Like It So
6. Breaking My Back
7. I Would Love To Be Right
8. You Made A Fool Of Me
9. Memory
10. Give In With Grace
11. In Your Garden

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #83223 in Music
• Released on: 1996-03-28
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Understated Masterpiece
Tasmin Archer flared into prominence in 1993 with the massive international number 1, "Sleeping Satellite" taken from the album "Great Expectations" - which, with its strong tunes and memorable lyrics, is well worth a look.

Three years after her initial foray into the limelight she returned with "Bloom". I vaguely remember some publicity for the first single off this album, "one more good night with the boys", but don't remember it troubling the charts at all - and, indeed, the whole of the rest of the album was met with a muted response, and did not receive even a fraction of the popular acclaim enjoyed by the first. And since then, though Tasmin continues to work and record with partner John Hughes, more people have probably heard of her through references made by Harry Hill than through anything post "Sleeping Satellite".

This is grossly unfair. Bloom is a major tour de force and deserves to be recognised as such.

Since "Great Expectations", Bloom and Hughes' writing has developed immensely. The lyrics are intricate and clever, while the melodies are simple, yet haunting. The tone of "Bloom" is considerably darker than "Great Expectations", bringing out the pain and anger evident in "In Your Care". Tasmin's voice is an extraordinary vehicle - it can be at once sardonic, biting, and yet achingly vulnerable. The orchestration is superb and there are moments, such as the very opening of the album, whose very stark simplicity send a frisson down the spine. While the overall mood tends towards the bleak, it is always tempered by the commitment and emotion of Tasmin's voice. And don't think that bleak necessarily means etiolated - certain songs - such as "One more good night" - rock out loud!

I've had this album for years and still listen to it at least every couple of months or so. It's an essential addition to the collection of anyone interested in the best of modern music.