Bloom, JP Simões
Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente, Coimbra Praça da República, Coimbra, Central Portugal, PortugalThe Phantom of Liberty. "Drafty Moon" is a combat, shadow dissipation, enlightenment and detoxification disc. Far from the dormant bucolism of "Tremble Like a Flower", Bloom’s discographic debut, this second breath brings a more assertive attitude, sometimes close to punk (but only spiritually), with whistles of energy sometimes overflowing, sometimes tense and restrained as an outburst. Although eclectic in the variety of styles it manages to conjure, the album is traversed by a constant tension between shadow and light, firmly anchored in the lyrics and voice of JP Simões and finely woven into the narrative architecture of the arrangements, Exemplary marriage between acoustic and electronic elements, and in the lead Miguel Nicolau exuberant. With its restlessness and its dramas ofdeception and disagreement, in the unhealthy galloping of the great human machine that corrodes freedom and nature with a commercial smile, "Drafty Moon" manages to be a full record of a subtle and salutary good humor: as if, on the verge of sinking into treacherous quicksand, our American hero could still say with an unbearable smile: "One day we will laugh at all this".