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Blossoms reveal their new album contains collaborations with CMAT and Jungle

Tue 12 December 2023 10:18, UK

Next year, Blossoms are set to release their first independent album on their own record label, ODD SK Records, and singer Tom Ogden has now announced it will contain collaborations with CMAT and Jungle.

The announcement comes as a follow-up to their recent single ‘To Do List (After The Breakup)’ in October. Talking on BBC 6Music, frontman Ogden shared details of the new record and their expanding processes.

“This album […] it’s the most we’ve kind of spread our wings in terms of collaboration,” he told presenter Nathan Shepherd. Expanding their usually insular process in which Odgen normally “wrote the songs, brought it to the lads and then we’ve gone in with [James] Skelly in Liverpool.” However, this time around, they’ve brought some familiar names into the album to help.

“We worked with CMAT a little bit, who we are big fans of, and we worked with Jungle, who we’re big fans of,” Ogden reveals, announcing that fast-rising country-turned-indie star CMAT and electronic duo Jungle have been brought into the fold.

The band are especially big fans of Irish singer CMAT, adding, “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.”

The album will be the follow-up to their 2022 release, Ribbon Around the Bomb. In the year since releasing their fourth LP, the band left Virgin EMI to strike out on their own. Now, Blossoms are on their own record label, enjoying more creative freedom and control.

The first single from the album, ‘To Do List (After The Breakup)’, expanded their usual sound into more of a 1980s synth space. Supported by the voice of fellow Stockport local Findlay, who added a folky edge. Deeply rooted in their local area, the band said of the song, “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.”

As of yet, no release date or title has been given for their next album. Listen to the latest Blossoms track below.