Track Listing

1. Rain
2. Greatness In A Speck Of Dust
3. Icarus
4. Never Loved A Man (Like You)
5. All We Are
6. Chase All My Winters Away
7. This Love
8. They Say
9. Sister Moon
10. Bloom

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #64937 in Music
• Released on: 2007-10-01
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Lou rocks!
I adored Beloved One, Lou's first solo album, which was a stark contrast to her Lamb days, a tender almost fragile acoustic work. However, it would be wrong to try and pigeonhole her as a folk artist based on that. This album is as much rock as folk, finding Lou in a much in a stronger, and at times angry place - this is Lou coming out of her shell again! Bloom is also fully acoustic album with lots of original sounds using a wide range of instruments (aside from the obvious acoustic guitar and drums - various percussion, zither, glockenspiel, accordian, lots of strings etc) but with a much bigger, fuller sound and a harder edge than Beloved One. Throughout of course is Lou's amazing voice, which is given full range over the course of the 10 songs and is used to good effect on backing vocals too. The lyrics are as profound as ever - deceptively simple but touching on universal truths of life and love, akin to sufi poetry. All the tracks have great hooky guitar parts and creative drumming which married to Lou's beautiful melodies and lyrics make this a stand out album for me that continues to grow on each listen.
The Zeppelin-esque first single The Rain is a driving, powerful opener; Greatness in a Speck of Dust is a catchy, upbeat, joyful affirmation of a song, Icarus is simply beautiful - a warm, soaring and moving song that could make you cry with joy; Never Loved a man is amazing -a simple but very moody, bluesy track; All We Are is strong slightly darker song, building to a heart wrenching peak with exquisite strings. Chase All my Winters is another joyful energetic track with an unusual time signature and quirky sounds that makes it a stand out song, This Love follows - a gentler, more folky track which lulls the listener into a false sense of security, the calm before the storm of the truly epic They Say, a long slow building track starting pretty, gentle and mournful and developing into a dark brooding angry outpouring - acoustic heavy metal! Sister Moon is a gorgeous sigh of missing a loved one and Bloom, the title and final track on the album is a beautiful ethereal, eerie song that leaves you feeling like you've been on a dark magical journey, - not a bad summary of the album as a whole really!
May Lou get the success she deserves for this one. Buy it and spread the word!!