Molly Bloom is a British group (Manchester), nourished by many tinted acoustic folk influences. The first album of these four English is a true invitation to the festival. Merry and involving, this disc where flutes and accordions are together is a true sound of fireworks and a perfect background music for Irish pub! However, if the general colour of Molly Bloom is especially festive, the English group is also perfectly at ease in other kinds of styles, like"Stevie Winwood Haircut" or delicate "Molly Bloom". This folk in the purest tradition is sometimes tinted of some sober keys of electronics a tantinet funky ("If") or is marked out in the captivating ("Blood"). However, drive out the naturalness and it returns au.galop! Thus, even the calmest pieces almost always finish on music which one often listens to a pint of Guinness to the hand, the elbow posed at counter!

The major inspiration of Molly Bloom oscillates constantly between Pogues ("A Merry Band Of Party Lads") and Jethro Tull, especially for the omnipresence of the flute which recalls the great hours of the group of Ian Anderson. Made abstraction of this prestigious resemblance.

Molly Bloom is not to be strictly accurate a group of progressive rock'n'roll. With the exception of two pieces, "Le Ciel Se Déchirait " (of which more complex musical construction and very melody recalls étrangement the first album of Steve Hackett) and Eastern "the 50,000 Camels", the unit approaches all the same much more of Pogues or Madness that Genesis! The British quartet unquestionably shows at all events inspiration throughout this first disc. Its technical control and its direction of the melody make of it an interesting group whose career will be promising if it succeeds in being freed from its principal influences. While waiting, the amateurs of this kind will find their account incontestably there, but the others will go their way politely while waiting for the continuation!