EARMILK EARMILK
  • NEW MUSIC
    • DANCE
    • ELECTRONIC
    • EXPERIMENTAL
    • HIP-HOP
    • INDIE
    • POP
    • ROCK
  • INDUSTRY NEWS
    • DOCUMENTARIES
    • EVENTS
    • FASHION
    • LIFESTYLE
    • MUSIC GEAR
    • MUSIC INDUSTRY
    • TECHNOLOGY
  • OPINION
  • ALBUM REVIEWS
  • GEAR REVIEWS
  • INTERVIEWS
  • FEATURES
    • FESTIVALS
    • EXCLUSIVES
    • LISTS
    • CONTESTS
    • Photo Journals
  • SERIES
    • Artist to Watch
    • Under The Crust
    • Flashback Friday
    • Suicide Sundaes
    • Daily 2%
    • The Club
    • Weekend Selector
    • Mashup Mondays
    • Artist Remixed
    • Wobble Wednesday
    • Night Rumours
    • Indie Sabbath
    • Straight No Chase
    • Straight From the Teet
  • Jobs
  • About EARMILK
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact Us
  • Submit Music
EARMILK EARMILK
EARMILK EARMILK
  • NEW MUSIC
    • DANCE
    • ELECTRONIC
    • EXPERIMENTAL
    • HIP-HOP
    • INDIE
    • POP
    • ROCK
  • INDUSTRY NEWS
    • DOCUMENTARIES
    • EVENTS
    • FASHION
    • LIFESTYLE
    • MUSIC GEAR
    • MUSIC INDUSTRY
    • TECHNOLOGY
  • OPINION
  • ALBUM REVIEWS
  • GEAR REVIEWS
  • INTERVIEWS
  • FEATURES
    • FESTIVALS
    • EXCLUSIVES
    • LISTS
    • CONTESTS
    • Photo Journals
  • SERIES
    • Artist to Watch
    • Under The Crust
    • Flashback Friday
    • Suicide Sundaes
    • Daily 2%
    • The Club
    • Weekend Selector
    • Mashup Mondays
    • Artist Remixed
    • Wobble Wednesday
    • Night Rumours
    • Indie Sabbath
    • Straight No Chase
    • Straight From the Teet
  • Feature
  • Indie
  • Indie Pop
  • Indie Rock
  • Interviews

Blossoms chat new album "Foolish Loving Spaces" [Q+A]

  • February 5, 2020
  • Tanis Smither
Total
0
Shares
0
0

Blossoms’ third album Foolish Loving Spaces opens in a kind of Ok Go fashion: happy, peppy, excited to be here. What ensues is essentially everything you’ve ever wanted from a British pop rock band, a humanist album with thumping bass and 80’s inspired instrumentation. It's cheeky, smart lyrics keep it from leaning toward the saccharine. To be frank, it’s a fucking delightful little slice of pop.

Growing up in Stockport, these lads did everything in order to be able to make music. Including, it seems, hosting band practice in a scaffolding yard. And it looks like they're gearing up to take on the world. 

The Stockport-born rockers caught up with EARMILK about the new album and their podcast.  

EARMILK: This is album number three, and it's coming out at the beginning of the decade. How do you feel you've grown as a band since you formed? Do you feel you understood your process better on this one?
TOM OGDEN: Yes I’d definitely say this process was the most enjoyable so far, we’ve grown as friends and we’ve grown musically together. You discover artists you’d never listened to before and that can inspire a whole bunch of songs. We used a lot of things off our demos for this album, which I guess shows how we’ve picked things up ourselves along the way recording the other albums.
EM: How are you feeling about the state of the world in the midst of Brexit, the climate crisis, Trump, the #MeToo era? Why was it important for you to release something that felt positive?
TO: I’ve always tended to write from quite personal experiences, and even though some of our lyrics in the past haven’t necessarily been positive our music always has, with big choruses and lots of melody. This time a lot of the lyrics reflected my current relationship and wanting to celebrate love. I guess that’s coincided with the dismal current state of affairs, I’ve never wanted to be political in my songwriting, I've always seen music as escapism, so It’s nice to be playing some positive songs in such times.
EM: You've said that you wrote this album after a summer spent listening to Stop Making Sense, The Joshua Tree, and Screamadelica. What new bands are you really interested in at the moment? Excited about anyone we may not know about?
TO: I really love Inhaler from Dublin. They’ve played a number of shows with us recently and I think they’re a huge talent with great songs. Ceramic Animal from Philadelphia are great too, I stumbled across them whilst I was in NYC, that actually went on to inspire me when writing this album.
EM: Tell me about your podcast! What inspired you to start one? What was your favourite episode to record?
TO: We were in between albums, coming to the end of touring our second album, whilst demo’ing the third. We wanted to put something out for the fans as a way to still be able to connect with them, so a podcast was the perfect bridge! I love the episode where Josh prank calls Pizza Express pretending the phone line is breaking up.
EM: What are the best and worst things about your hometown, Stockport?
TO: The best things are the small things you take for granted, like the sandwich shop I’ve been going to since I was 12, or the local pub which does the best Sunday Roast. The worst thing is probably the weather.
EM: What are you looking forward to most about the release of the new record?
TO: I’d say we’re looking forward to playing live again the most. Having new songs breathes a new lease of life into your live shows, so I’d say that!

Connect with Blossoms: Twitter | Instagram | Spotify

Total
0
Shares
Share 0
Tweet 0
Share 0
Share 0
Related Topics
  • Alternative
  • Blossoms
  • Briitsh Rock Band
  • indie pop
  • Interview
  • podcast
  • Rock
Tanis Smither

Constantly snacking. Canadian import based in Dublin. Indie editor.

Previous Article
  • Grime
  • Hip-Hop
  • Music Videos
  • Rap

Kriptik and Skatta share their aspirations on "Try"

  • February 5, 2020
  • Tayo Odutola
View Article
Next Article
  • Alt-Pop
  • Electro Pop
  • Indie
  • Indie Pop
  • Interviews
  • Synth Pop

From young and naïve to grounded and contemplative: The Naked And Famous

  • February 6, 2020
  • Valeria Dulava
View Article
You May Also Like
View Article
  • Alternative
  • Indie
  • Indie Pop
  • Indie Rock
  • Pop
  • Psychedelic

Montazona brings in the patience with psychedelic masterpiece "Slow Your Roll"

  • June 6, 2025
View Article
  • Americana
  • Country

Staci Gruber "Be Kind With My Heart" is a soulful country ballad

  • June 6, 2025
View Article
  • Alternative Rock
  • Interviews
  • Punk

Neutral Snap chat new single "Danny ACOG", collaboration, waking up on a random golf course and more [Interivew]

  • June 6, 2025
View Article
  • Lo-Fi
  • Mainstage
  • Post-Punk
  • Psych-rock

Captain Crocodile lures you in with “Your Slithery Fum”

  • June 6, 2025
View Article
  • Indie
  • Indie Pop
  • Mainstage
  • New Music
  • Pop

Jadelyn reaches finds her true artistic purpose in genre bending "Daydream Diaries" EP [Review]

  • June 6, 2025
View Article
  • Folk
  • Indie
  • New Music

Singer Songwriter Emma Harner releases folk single, "False Alarm"

  • June 6, 2025
View Article
  • Alternative
  • Funk
  • Hip-Hop

THEKOIWAY delivers a soundtrack of the streets in “La Calle Quema”

  • June 5, 2025
View Article
  • Alternative
  • Indie
  • Indie Rock
  • New Music
  • Post-Rock
  • Shoegaze

South London's Ain’t strikes gold with their latest single "Jude"

  • June 5, 2025
Popular Music
  • Telebox taps into a frantic yet atmospheric feel on "Shadow Of A Heart"
    • June 6, 2025
  • Honey Motel unveils striking genre-bending anthem offering "If You Didn’t Exist"
    • June 6, 2025
  • Captain Crocodile lures you in with “Your Slithery Fum”
    • June 6, 2025
  • Chloe Florence inspires listeners to disconnect and reconnect with "Log Off"
    • June 6, 2025
  • Montazona brings in the patience with psychedelic masterpiece "Slow Your Roll"
    • June 6, 2025
Recent Scoops
  • Matt Oakley is redefining country music with heart, soul and modernity
    • May 5, 2025
  • Texas’ Blacktop Mojo does rock music the way it should be done
    • April 29, 2025
  • Tha Rapper Haiti blends authentic style with musical passion
    • April 28, 2025
  • Glorybots redefines rock with latest album 'mad.end'
    • April 10, 2025
Community Voices
  • From Machismo To Mujeres: Women As The Face Of Reggaeton
    • July 14, 2022
  • Tyler the creator
    4 things I learned on the 'Call Me If You Get Lost' tour
    • March 31, 2022
  • 4 things every artist needs to think about in 2022
    • January 27, 2022
  • The TikTok Takeover of Hip-Hop
    • January 11, 2022

EARMILK EARMILK
  • Jobs
  • About EARMILK
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact Us
  • Submit Music
All Milk. No Duds.

Input your search keywords and press Enter.