You can definitely hear that on “If You Think This Is Real Life” – there’s percussions that sound like the steel drums.Īpart from Stop Making Sense, you also spent the Summer you were writing, listening to The Joshua Tree and Screamadelica. The songs “Your Girlfriend” and “If you Think This Is Real Life” are heavily influenced from it. The percussion and the female backing singers that’s what we took from it. I don’t know, it’s like pop-songs but with a kind of weird element to it, isn’t it? It’s hard to put your finger on it. You know when your kind of fall in love with a band? That’s what I did and it just ended up subliminally bleeding into the songwriting. I’ve never got into Talking Heads in depth, just “Once In A Lifetime.” I never got into “This Must Be the Place,” “Burning Down The House” and all them tunes-but last Summer I did and just thought ‘this is great!’ I really enjoyed the vibe and then became obsessed with it.
How did the Talking Heads documentary Stop Making Sense come to influence the songs on Foolish Loving Spaces ? And after touring the globe from Japan to China and Mexico, they prove that when it comes to food you can take the boys out of Stockport but you can’t take Stockport out of the boys! We also talk about the evolution in his songwriting and why they decided to launch their pubcast. As the others sign on, Ogden takes some time out to tell us what brought them back to recording in Liverpool and sheds light on some of the American influences on this album. We call them in Stockport on the eve of their album’s launch, and find them busy autographing their new album for fans.
While most artists might ignore or get upset at these comments, Blossoms magnanimously give these haters kudos for well-crafted criticisms.Īfter recording two albums in Liverpool with UK producers James Skelly (The Corral) and Rich Turvey having their sights on America and Ogden’s natural inclination to push himself as a songwriter-it was inevitable that they’d consider working with other producers and going further a field to explore a new sound. On it, they poke fun at themselves with segments like “Favorite Youtube Negative Comments” where frontman, Tom Ogden will read then deconstruct biting comments, prompting fits of laughter from the others in the band. Get a healthy dose of this with their Blossoms podcast or what they’ve lovingly-termed pubcast-as it’s recorded in the local watering-hole where the band got their name.
Known for their big singalong synth-pop choruses and earworm melodies on favorites such as “Charlemagne,” “Honey Sweet” and “There’s A Reason Why (I Never Returned Your Calls),” the band are equally loved for their Northern charm and humor. The video for their latest single “The Keeper” was shot in New York. In the U.S., they sold out their tour in 2017, and appeared at Coachella and Lollapalooza last year so they are well poised to further build on their American fanbase with the release of Foolish Loving Spaces. They’ve scored a number 1 album in the UK, been nominated for the prestigious Mercury Prize and since toured with their musical heroes Noel Gallagher and Alex Turner. The tight-knit band of friends from Stockport, Greater Manchester- have been playing together since 2014 and touring increasingly the last couple of years. British fivesome Blossoms will release their third album Foolish Loving Spaces this Friday and their first on a U.S.
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