Blossoms return today with the self-directed video for their latest single, “The Keeper,” which debuted last week as Annie Mac’s Hottest Record in The World on BBC Radio 1.
The video, which serves as a love letter with New York City as the
backdrop, was shot on location in the Big Apple on Super 8 film, giving
it a hazy, nostalgic feel as the band takes in some of the city’s most
iconic sights and sounds, including the Washington Square Arch, the
Brooklyn Bridge, Statue of Liberty and more.
“Shot and directed by ourselves, The Keeper is
fundamentally a celebration of love in a very traditional and sincere
sense, and we felt like New York City shot on Super 8 was the perfect
place to visually interpret that,” the band reveals. “From Bleecker Street to a big pizza pie, we heart NY.”
Watch the video for “The Keeper” HERE.
“The Keeper” is taken from the band’s highly anticipated third studio full-length, Foolish Loving Spaces [pre-order HERE], set for release on January 31 2020 [Avenue A/Virgin EMI]. Listen to “The Keeper” HERE.
The new song offers fans the first taste of new music from the band since the release of their summer single, “Your Girlfriend,” which has racked up over 10 million combined streams worldwide. Watch the James Slater-directed video HERE.
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Foolish Loving Spaces was produced by the band’s consistent and talented team of James Skelly and Rich Turvey at Parr Street Studios in Liverpool. Tom Ogden’s increasingly
direct lyrical range turns album three into a romantic page-turner of
light and shade, while its divergent moods are supplied by Myles Kellock’s piano
and keyboard lines, careering from urgent stabs of TV game show-theme
synth to more classic, rolling notes. The record’s multi-instrumental
color and widescreen sound is provided by pedal steel / lead guitarist Josh Dewhurst, while Joe Donovan on drums and Charlie Salt on bass bring fluidly danceable grooves throughout, complemented on occasion by a wall of gospel harmony.
Speaking about the inspiration for the album, the band explains: “The
album is a pure celebration of love in all of its splendid and baffling
guises, toying with the so-called sins of lust and forbidden
infatuation. It’s inspired by a summer spent listening to ‘Stop Making
Sense’, ‘The Joshua Tree’ & ‘Screamadelica’
Earlier this month, the Stockport five-piece returned to North America
for a six-date headline run, joined by Dublin band Inhaler as support,
making stops in Brooklyn, Toronto, Chicago, San Francisco and Los
Angeles. Following a SOLD OUT North American tour back in 2017 — including critically acclaimed appearances at Coachella Festival in California and Lollapalooza in
Chicago – Blossoms have gone on to amass almost a quarter-of-a-billion
combined global streams, with North America being their second biggest
market in the world.
Since forming in 2013, Blossoms have
enjoyed widespread success and acclaim. Their 2016 debut full length
topped the album charts for two consecutive weeks and went on to earn
the band BRIT Award and Mercury Prize nominations, while 2018’s Cool Like You charted at number 4 in the UK album chart, spawning anthemic singles such as I Can’t Stand It, There’s A Reason Why (I Never Returned Your Calls) and How Long Will This Last?
In other news, Blossoms launched their ‘Blossoms Pubcast’ this year. The podcast, which has topped the iTunes podcast charts, is based at The Blossoms in Stockport – the pub that gave the band their name. [Listen on Apple and Spotify).
“The Keeper” is out now. Listen HERE. Watch the new video HERE.
‘Foolish Loving Spaces’ is out January 31, 2020.