Blossoms unveil details of new album and share title track, ‘Ribbon Around The Bomb’

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Blossoms have today (January 25) unveiled details of their new album, ‘Ribbon Around The Bomb’ – you can listen to the album’s title track below.It will be the Stockport five-pieces fifth album and is set for release on April 29.Blossoms have today announced their brand-new, fourth studio album Ribbon Around The Bomb, which is set for release on the 29th April.Speaking about the new album and single, the group’s Tom Ogden says: “While on tour in 2019 in Mexico, I visited Frida Kahlo’s house.

Looking at her paintings on show, someone had described one of them as being like a ‘ribbon around a bomb’.“I immediately thought that it was a great title for a song and album because of the imagery that it evoked in my mind.

I thought about how lots of things in life could be described as being a ribbon around a bomb in the sense that as people we often dress things up which have a darkness lying beneath them.”The video for the title track’s new single has been directed by Arctic Monkeys’ Creative Director, Edwin Burdis, who worked on the band’s ‘Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino’ and ‘AM albums.’ Watch it here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZjCoMrciss‘Ribbon Around The Bomb’ Tracklist‘The Writer’s Theme’‘Ode To NYC’‘Ribbon Around The Bomb’‘The Sulking Poet’‘Born Wild’‘The Writer’‘Everything About You’‘Care For’‘Cinerama Holy Days’‘Edith Machinist’‘Visions’‘The Last Chapter’Ogden added that the album revolves around a central character called ‘The Writer’.

He explains: “The more songs I wrote, the more I realised that the writer referenced in the songs was in fact me.“Having been so busy for the past eight years I and the band have never really had the chance to step back and reflect on what we’ve achieved.