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Stockport never keeps you waiting long. This Friday, Blossoms land a double blow: the announcement of their sixth studio album, Songs From The Wedding Cake, and the immediate release of its first single, “Meet Me In Love”. A sun-drenched disco track built around the thrill of falling head over heels, paired with a video starring broadcaster Maya Jama and actor Callum Scott Howells.
A video directed by the singer himself
The “Meet Me In Love” video was directed by frontman Tom Ogden, who set out to turn it into a cinematic love letter to old Hollywood and 1970s disco glamour. “It’s colourful, romantic and a little bit surreal, which felt like the perfect visual for the song,” he explained. The track itself, co-written during a songwriting trip to the Lake District with singer-songwriter Findlay and French artist Jules Apollinaire, grew out of a simple two-chord disco groove the band messed around with on the last day of the trip. Declan McKenna lends backing vocals, following on from his earlier feature this year on “Additional Driver”, the disco-tinged one-off the band put out to mark ten years since their debut album.
Songs From The Wedding Cake, named after Stockport’s town hall
The new album takes its title from a local nickname: in Stockport, the Victorian town hall where frontman Tom Ogden got married is affectionately known as “the wedding cake”. Recorded live to tape with American producer Shawn Lee, best known for his work with Young Gun Silver Fox, the record promises to filter life’s ordinary milestones through an extraordinary musical lens — think seventies funk, disco flourishes and choruses built for arenas. A decade after a Mercury Prize-nominated debut, the five-piece are calling it their most personal and expansive body of work to date.
The biggest tour of their career
The album arrives alongside the largest tour the band have ever mounted: some of the UK’s biggest venues, with dates at Cardiff’s Utilita Arena, London’s Alexandra Palace, Manchester’s Co-op Live, Birmingham’s Utilita Arena and Glasgow’s OVO Hydro between 26 November and 5 December. Confirmation, a decade on from a widely praised debut, that Blossoms remain one of Britain’s most dependable pop exports — one that never needed a single global smash hit to start selling out arenas.
By folding in soul, funk and disco influences album after album, the band have steadily widened their original indie-guitar footprint without ever quite abandoning it. Their last record, 2024’s Gary — named after a fibreglass gorilla statue stolen from a Scottish garden centre — already gave them a fourth UK number one and more than 21,000 first-week sales. Ten years on from a debut that topped the charts for two straight weeks and picked up a Mercury Prize nod, Blossoms have little left to prove on the popularity front: what remains to be seen is whether that chemistry holds up across a seventh chapter.
“Meet Me In Love” is, for now, the danciest calling card of that chapter, and the arena tour wrapped around it confirms a band that has changed scale without ever losing the audience that followed them from club to club for the best part of ten years.
A decade of steady growth, no shortcuts
Formed in Stockport in 2013, Blossoms spent their first decade doing things the unglamorous way: a self-titled debut that went to number one in 2016, a run of festival slots, and four studio albums that kept climbing the charts rather than chasing a single viral moment. That slow-burn trajectory is part of why the jump to arenas this winter feels earned rather than engineered. It also explains why a music video featuring a television presenter and an actor from It’s a Sin reads less like a stunt and more like a band comfortable enough in its own skin to invite famous friends along for the ride.
