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Q MagazineJun 6, 2016He resurfaes as a country-tinged singer-songwriter of poise and substance. [#361, p.108]
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Jun 3, 2016By 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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May 9, 2016Phased bottleneck guitars, Rhodes pianos, basses and synths lay a solid foundation, each instrument perfectly balanced with the other, though keeping a distinguishable part in the harmony, giving the songs a layered and complex structure never overdone or taken too far as Cohen croons on top.
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May 9, 2016There is some respite in the poppy, piano-assisted chorus of New Morning Comes, but no trite redemptive arc: this is a sensitive and subtle response to living with grief.
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May 6, 2016Cohen’s obvious enthusiasm for his music humanises the man behind the headlines.
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May 5, 2016It’s hard not to listen to Country Home and its lyrics “I will hold on to / The part of me that is in love with you” without feeling like you’ve read a diary entry you shouldn’t have. Elsewhere, however, 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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May 5, 2016The album's charm is that it manages to deal with first-hand melancholy so eloquently and so affectingly without centering itself entirely around it. Bloom Forever, you can't help but feel, is Cohen's second record that will stick around for a very long time.
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May 16, 2016Cohen will never be able to escape the context surrounding Bloom Forever, but he refuses to let himself be defined by tragedy. 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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UncutMay 5, 2016The mourning is palpable, but only on a few tracks is it tuned into art. [Jun 2016, p.71]
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MojoMay 5, 2016Cohen's sometimes overly mannered, Brett Anderson-echoing vocals won't be for everyone, but nevertheless this is a brave and absorbing statement. [Jun 2016, p.91]
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May 5, 2016The process of recovery shifts through numbness, melancholy and tentative hope in an admirably straightforward, touching manner that suggests Cohen’s previous tenure in edgy art-rockers S.C.U.M. was another world entirely.