- 2024-07-24
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MUSIC
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Blossoms Premieres New Song “Perfect Me” on BBC Radio 1
British alt-pop band Blossoms, consisting of Tom Ogden (lead vocals), Charlie Salt (bass), Josh Dewhurst (lead guitar), Joe Donovan (drums) and Myles Kellock (keyboards), premiered a new song “Perfect Me” on BBC Radio 1's New Music Show with Jack Saunders.
The song is the third single off of their upcoming fifth studio album “Gary”, which is set to be released on September 20, 2024.
The album comprises a 10-track, produced by James Skelly.
The song is accompanied by the James Slater-directed music video.
The track was written by Charles Salt, Joseph Donovan, Joshua Dewhurst, Myles Kellock, Thomas Ogden. Produced by James Skelly.
The band said of the song, “We wrote this together in the rehearsal room one morning last year, you can hear the energy of the band on this record. It started with that Moog sequencer you hear at the top of the tune, that became the centrepiece of the track and the song became a subconscious nod to our love for ABBA, Springsteen and The Killers. I wanted the lyrics to be a stream of consciousness in the pursuit for perfection, which ultimately doesn’t exist. Amazing video directed by the wonderful James Slater.”- The band guitarist Josh Dewhurst told Jack Saunders about the song, “It nearly didn't make the album. Yeah now full circle sing do that sometimes you write a lot of songs for a record and you kind of put some on the back burner and then you come back with fresh perspective. And this one rose to the top like a like bubbles.”
The band lead singer Tom Ogden continued, “I started the song that was the whole thing was written around that Moog synthesizer arpeggio thing. This time, Josh was in the room early on even. I think he just pressed the button on the Moog, and it made that sound. So then he was like, fiddling with it. And then I walked in, I was the second to arrive and I was like, Oh, this sounds great. And I started working out like a chord progression as you would start writing the song over it. And then the lads would turn it one by one of that Joe got on the drums. I've got this idea. So then it was literally one by one and we I think we wrote it about half an hour. So it felt like a burst of creativity that was different I we normally work.” - source : BBC Radio 1
