Bloom (Billy Pilgrim album)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[15]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide	[11]

The Vancouver Sun wrote that "Sweet Louisiana Sound" "is an upbeat four-four kicker with a hint of a bayou twang that resists the duo's propensity for overly earnest, over-simplified, folk pop."^[16] The Columbus Dispatch called the album "better in almost every way than the group's self-titled debut: catchier, tougher when need be, lyrically more compelling."^[17]

The San Diego Union-Tribune determined that "the soaring vocal harmonies of Andrew Hyra and Kristian Bush and jamming rhythm guitars can invoke Don Henley and the Eagles."^[14] The Record deemed the album "outstanding," writing that "Billy Pilgrim makes folk-based pop music the way it was meant to be made."^[18] The Daily Herald concluded that Bloom "places the group somewhere between the jangly guitar-rock sound of the Gin Blossoms and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and the more countrified 'heartland rock' approach of the Jayhawks, Wilco and the BoDeans."^[19]

AllMusic wrote that, "although sonically consistent and clean, the overall feel of the album is a bit sterile, a tad slick, a touch predictable."^[15]