Bloom

"Bloom ... quite simply breathtaking."
- BBC, UK

"Multi-layered, deeply rewarding ... marvelous."
- THE SUN, UK (5 Stars)

"Blooming marvelous."
- DJ Magazine, UK (4 Stars)

"Haunting, disturbing and dynamic." 
- UNCUT, UK

"As satisfyingly strange and sepulchral as ever." 
- SUNDAY TIMES, UK

In 2006 Lou Rhodes released her 'Beloved One', an album that garnered excellent sales and received 4 & 5 star reviews everywhere. Lou's second album 'Bloom' is receiving similar glowing accolades and is musically described as being "an album filled with drama, lots of light and shade and acres of the best and worst in love" !!!

The Zeppelin-esque first single and opening track "The Rain" embraces musical metaphors from the opening tinkling guitars that simulate raindrops to the crashing instrumentals that imitate thunder. It is a far cry from the rawness of emotion in "Never Loved A Man Like You" ... a simple and sweet story with its use of the xylophone giving it a magical quality.  "All We Are", one of the stand-out tracks on the album, and "They Say" both use lots of double bass and strings and are slow building tracks that start gently and mournful and develop into darker, heart wrenching peaks. These contrast with gentler songs like "Icarus" and "This Love".

"Greatness in a Speck of Dust" and "Chase All My Winters" are catchy and upbeat while the title (and final) track "Bloom" is an ethereal and eerie song that leaves you feeling like you have been on a dark but magical journey.