Blossoms- Announce New Album 'Songs From the Wedding Cake'
Blossoms have announced that their sixth album, 'Songs From the Wedding Cake' will be released in October via ODD SK / Distiller Records.
The lead single, 'Joke About Divorce', was released in April, and it's classic Blossoms: a spritely indie pop banger that shares some similarities with 'Your Girlfriend'. Ogden singing: “I guess this argument’s not the place for a joke about divorce / My intention’s are just a playful thing to make you laugh of course”.
“During every argument, no matter how big or small, there’s always that moment where humour could completely disarm you both and diffuse the whole thing,” said Ogden of the track’s inspiration.
“On this occasion, I thought joking about divorce would do exactly that… I just got the timing completely wrong. Instead, it made things worse, and that moment ended up immortalised in a three-and-a-half-minute pop song.”
Second single 'Meet Me in Love' is one of the catchiest things that the band have ever written, and features backing vocals from Declan McKenna.
Talking about the song, Tom says
"‘Meet Me In Love’ was written on a songwriting trip to the Lake District with Natalie Findlay and Jules Apollinaire. As often happens, it was the last day and we’d pretty much accepted that there probably weren’t any more songs left to write. We started messing around with a simple two-chord disco groove and, within a couple of hours, the whole thing seemed to fall into place."
"It’s one of those songs that felt exciting from the moment it arrived. I remember driving home from the Lakes listening to the demo on repeat for most of the journey. We later finished the recording with Shawn Lee at Tilehouse Studios, tracking live to tape, but a lot of what made us fall in love with the song in the first place came from that original demo, so plenty of those parts survived onto the final record."
On social media Blossoms called the record “an absolute joy” to make on social media, adding: “Written and recorded over the last year, it’s a collection of songs about what might seem like ordinary moments, viewed through an extraordinary lens… joking about divorce, hire cars, crying at the Kardashians, Wikipedia rabbit holes, trips to The Range, falling asleep in a taxi, your arm going numb because someone’s asleep on it, the 192, being an additional driver on your wife’s insurance and losing her 20 years’ no-claims bonus (ffs), dancing in the kitchen to Grease, crying at videos of dogs on Instagram, picking up parquet flooring, saying the wrong thing, growing older together… you get the idea.”
The album title takes its name from a Stockport nickname for the town’s iconic Victorian town hall - where Tom got married. It’s an apt frame for a record built around one guiding idea: taking the ordinary moments of life and putting them through an extraordinary lens. The result is Blossoms at their most expansive and most personal; an irresistible cocktail of 80s-flecked funk, heart-on-your-sleeve anthems and dance-floor indie bangers that feels, ten years on from their Mercury Prize-nominated debut, like the record they’ve been building towards.
Additionally, Blossoms have announced their biggest ever headline tour, where they’re set to play at a number of arenas across the UK in November. The Royston Club will join them as support on all dates.
Kicking off at Cardiff’s Utilita Arena on November 26, the band will make stops at London’s Ally Pally (27), moving on to a hometown show at Manchester’s Co-Op Live (28). After a show at Birmingham’s Utilita Arena (December 4), they’ll round off with a final show at Glasgow’s OVO Hydro (5).
Blossoms playing in arenas is long overdue. I'm so happy that, a decade into their career, they've started to realise their worth. They are one of the best bands Britain has at the minute, and after proving they can sell tickets with the Wythenshawe Park show in 2024, Edgeley Park in 2019 and Manchester Arena in 2021, I'm surprised it's taken them this long.
Getting The Royston Club in as support as well is a real coup; they are one of the most exciting bands in Britain at the minute, with two brilliant albums, and a trajectory that is not too dissimilar to Wunderhorse. Catch them on this tour, because they won't be supporting for much longer. Arenas to lie in wait for them. Just ask Richard Ashcroft fans.