Loud bloom

"Essentially an album of two halves, Loud Bloom operates like 24 hours in the life of a sun-thirsty flower. The album sets off charged with a palpable sense of dancefloor energy with Rosa Rugosa, a light but punchy floor filler (...) Looking back to his formative years, Iris incorporates the stabbing synths and cut-up samples of the breakdance era. Such is Dreijer's skill, the music itself takes on a sense of movement and taut muscularity whilst also injecting a sense of knowing humour with some finely placed percussive vocal stabs".

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"Olof Dreijer har altid haft en veludviklet sans for rytmisk forskydning, men her virker produktionen mindre aggressiv end eksempelvis på de sidste par udgivelser, The Knife nåede at udgive ... De hårde kanter er ikke væk, men er blødgjort af latin- og calypsofarvede rytmer, håndpercussion og mere luftige grooves ... med en spilletid på over 74 minutter tester albummet indimellem lytterens tålmodighed".

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"Still, the music is inspiring both in content and in concept. Fluid, colorful, all soft curves and smooth edges, it is never confrontational, always friendly and inviting-there's a smiley face on the cover, after all (...) Feel-good party music is usually rooted in escapism, or simple obliviousness, while socially conscious art tends toward the bleak, especially these days. Loud Bloom does something subtly profound: confronts the world as it is, not with doomy critique, but an ecstatic burst of joy".

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