Blossoms on being sandwiched between The Beatles and Johnny Marr in chart battle: “We’re in good company, aren’t we?”

Blossoms have spoken to NME about the race for this week’s Number One against The Beatles and Johnny Marr with their latest album ‘Songs From The Wedding Cake’, as well as their mission to keep things DIY and handmade in the age of AI.

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“It’s mad, to be honest,” frontman Tom Ogden told NME of their chart placing.

“Liverpool on one side, Manchester on the other and Stockport in the middle.

If you’d told us this 10 years ago, when we were releasing our debut, I wouldn’t have believed you.

But I mean, we’re in good company aren’t we?” Explaining the vibe of the record, Ogden said that ‘Songs From The Wedding Cake’ was “about being married and all the everyday stuff that comes with it”, having wed Katie Donovan (sister of Blossoms drummer Joe) back in 2021.

Since then, he’s come to understand and enjoy what he calls “the extraordinary ordinary”.

“Saying the wrong thing in an argument, losing your wife’s no claims bonus, crying at the Kardashians, it’s all in there,” he shared.

“The album is named after Stockport Town Hall, which everyone round where we live calls the Wedding Cake, and it’s where I got married, so it couldn’t be much closer to home.

“The last album [‘ Gary’, 2024 ] had a song about a stolen fibreglass gorilla, which everyone loved, and that gave us the confidence to bring the same playfulness to this one, just with more personal subject matter this time.” As well as featuring songs written with Declan McKenna in a hot tub , the new album also features a core DIY and hand-made spirit.

“It started with the recording,” said Ogden.

“We made the album with Shawn Lee, playing live straight to tape, and once you’ve done it that way you can’t really go and fake everything else.

We sat down as a band and picked the colour palette, and everything visual followed from that.

We had body scans taken of ourselves and cake toppers of the five of us 3D printed, put them on a real cake and photographed it.