Inspired by the works of singer-songwriters such as Townes Van Zandt, Judee Sill, Van Morrison and Jim Sullivan, ‘Bloom Forever’ is a chronologically ordered document of the songs Cohen wrote between 2012 and 2015.
Of course, tragedy is also present on the record. In April 2014 the unthinkable happened. Cohen’s wife Peaches died at their Surrey home aged 25, leaving him to raise their two small boys. Rather than turn his back on the record in grief, Cohen eventually decided to continue work on the album, relocating to Iceland to write and record the rest of ‘Bloom Forever’ and finding some kind of peace through the process.
TRACK LISTING
Honeymoon
Bloom Forever
Morning Fall
Hazy Shades
Country Home
Ain’t Gonna Be No Rain
New Morning Comes
Only Us
Mother Mary