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Bloom Forever

Thomas Cohen

Bloom Forever

Debut solo album of dreamy indie pop from the former S.C.U.M frontman

ADM rating[?]

7.5

Label
Stolen Recordings
UK Release date
06/05/2016
US Release date
06/05/2016
  1. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    The album is surprisingly sunny: these are songs for festival picnic blankets as well as for holding on to your loved ones
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  2. 8.0 |   Under The Radar

    The album's charm is that it manages to deal with first-hand melancholy so eloquently and so affectingly without centering itself entirely around it
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  3. 8.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    From jazzy six-minute opener ‘Honeymoon’ (replete with sax solo) through the painful ‘Country Home’ and cathartic closer ‘Mother Mary’, this is the album Cohen simply needed to make
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  4. 8.0 |   The Observer

    This is a sensitive and subtle response to living with grief
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  5. 8.0 |   Gig Soup

    A heartfelt and healing solo effort
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  6. 8.0 |   NME

    Cohen’s obvious enthusiasm for his music humanises the man behind the headlines. When he sings about drinking tap water on ‘Only Us’, he’s as relatable as the guy who once consented to making soup on camera
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  7. 8.0 |   The Quietus

    This is what Bloom Forever holds, even in its title: the blossom of a songwriter ready to open up to the light
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  8. 8.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    By the culmination of these nine songs, it’s hard to not be left with the impression that Bloom Forever is an album that Thomas Cohen really needed to make, and make public
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  9. 8.0 |   Q

    Exorcises his bereavement demons. Print edition only

  10. 7.9 |   Pitchfork

    His bold, distinctive debut album stands a million miles from the celebrity circus, and will endure far longer than mawkish titillation
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  11. 6.0 |   Evening Standard

    Listen to it closely for lyrical confessions if you must, but the music beneath is better
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  12. 6.0 |   The Independent

    Wielding watery vibrato guitars and lilting piano in an appealingly relaxed, retro style that recalls latterday Laurel Canyon laureate Jonathan Wilson
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