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Release Date: 15 May 2012
"The band are increasingly clever at turning a melody inside out to evoke those moments of dizzy-making clarity." - NME
"There is, though, a lot of intricate paddling to their swan-glide. Perhaps the best bits of Bloom aren't the hooky melodies, or Legrand's recasting of Nico as a sweeter pill, but the structures that underpin the feeling of coasting on a thermal. On their best songs a great deal goes on to achieve the impression of horizontality." - The Guardian
"Filmmakers call the part of the day right before the sun goes down "the magic hour." It's that brief moment when the waning daylight causes everything to take on a holy, hazy glow. It took Terrence Malick about a year to shoot his 1978 movie Days of Heaven because he insisted on filming only during this time of day, but the results perfectly capture and distend that dizzy, overripe feeling of right before something very good ends. Bloom does that, too." - Pitchfork