Autumnal shades pervade in Luka Bloom’s 10th album, “Innocence”, All the road miles, pedal rotations & late night concerts have wrought a burnished tint to the man who’s given us classics as diverse as the languid ‘Sunny Sailor Boy’, the lonesome & harrowing ‘The City Of Chicago’ & the unapologetically defiant ‘You’. And now, 10 albums on, Luka Bloom’s musical journey has brought him to a place where songs seep from every pore, & melodies celebrate the ordinariness of life. Some musicians grow wizened by the road; Luka Bloom has thrived on it. He & his acoustic motorbike are one, their molecules intertwined, & an echo of Flann O’Brien’s At Swim Two Birds. Luka’s travels have stretched his tendons, his muscles & his imagination in ways none of us could have anticipated, & Innocence captures that journey – not so much with surgical precision, as with a magical ear for life’s hidden details.

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