Blossoms have worked with CMAT and Jungle on their upcoming album.
The ‘Charlemagne’ group are working on their first independent album on their own record label, ODD SK Records, a follow-up to 2022’s ‘Ribbon Around the Bomb’, after leaving Virgin EMI.
And this time, they were more open to working with other people, including the Irish singer-songwriter and the electronic music group – comprising producers Josh Lloyd-Watson and Tom McFarland.
Frontman Tom Ogden told BBC 6 Music’s Indie Forever’s Nathan Shepherd: “This album […] it’s the most we’ve kind of spread our wings in terms of collaboration.
“I’ve wrote the songs brought it to the lads and then we’ve gone in with [James] Skelly in Liverpool. Whereas this time we’ve worked with kind of different people. We haven’t really talked about who we’ve worked with yet as such […] We worked with CMAT a little bit, who we are big fans of and we worked with Jungle who we’re big fans of. […] Like CMAT, I heard her stuff this time last year when we were on tour in a record shop in Brighton, and I was like ‘Who is this?’ So yeah and then I just heard her music and was a big fan so we then reached out and kind of did some stuff over the summer but again we don’t know what is going to be on the record.”
Tom recently opened up about their latest single ‘To Do List (After The Breakup)’ and pointed to the significance of Manchester music.
He explained: “We initially kicked the song around as a band in a way that we did when we first started – all in the round together at our rehearsal room.
“It’s something we’ve not really been able to do for a long time but it felt so natural and euphoric for the five of us!
“Some of the song’s DNA lies within the local Manchester bands we grew up listening to from our parents’ record collections, bands like New Order and James.”
It was inspired by a poem of the same name by Rupi Kaur, which “captured the feeling of heartbreak so accurately”.
He added: “We thought it was a great concept for a song and reached out to Rupi about using some of her words and she kindly gave us permission to use them.”