HARMONIZE Magazine n° 50 58 MOLLY BLOOM 1st album - 50 min 12

  Here is a group and an album (recorded two years ago) highly amusing: they are funny and they have fun. One will certainly not reduce them to their direction of humour but that it is pleasant to read (or to listen) words as funny as Stevie Winwood' S haircut, for example the first towards: "I used to have long hair and the green teeth". This imagination, this bizarrery, one precisely finds them in their unclassable music as much as pleasant. It is acoustic: mandolin, flute, acoustic guitar, song, accordion, drums; let us specify immediately that that means by no means softie, the majority of the pieces being gorged with freshness and energy. The references which could come to mind would be most acoustic Jethro Tull, especially makes some for these parts of leaping flute and galopante which enjolivent all the album. There is there too something of the madness of Madness or the imagination of Dexy' S Midnight Runner. But Molly Bloom is especially unforeseeable, délicieusement unforeseeable, in the way more "british" which is. Its daftness dyes sometimes worrying environments or darker melodies (Le Ciel Se Déchirait). Its music can reveal "medieval" influences like offering an incursion on the side of the tango or flamenco. The accordion does not have anything vulgar here, it dialogues nicely with the flute. To also note very beautiful parts of acoustic guitar. It is fresh, reinvigorating and full with invention. Pretty surprise my faith which the new minis CD Green fence confirm, advisable.