As we stand on the precipice of perhaps the most fun spring and summer seasons in three years, there’s no denying that life will still be super shitty despite our attempts at reclaiming normalcy. We’ll hit music festivals, crash the beaches, and go on road trips, trying to remember how life once was with the threat of reality looming overhead. It’s a sentiment captured quite nicely by Blossoms‘ bouncy new tune “Ribbon Around The Bomb,” which we’ll have playing vividly as we dance to keep from crying.
“Ribbon Around The Bomb,” which premiered yesterday (January 25), comes with the news of the British alt-pop band’s forthcoming fourth studio album of the same name, due out April 29.
“While on tour in 2019 in Mexico, I visited Frida Kahlo’s house,” says Blossoms’ Tom Ogden. “Looking at her paintings on show, someone had described one of them as being like a ‘ribbon around a bomb’. I immediately thought that it was a great title for a song and album because of the imagery that it evoked in my mind. I thought about how lots of things in life could be described as being a ribbon around a bomb in the sense that as people we often dress things up which have a darkness lying beneath them.”
Blossoms’ new one also comes with a music video, directed by directed by Edwin Burdis, the Arctic Monkeys’ creative director behind Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino and AM. Get into the visual and the stream below, and keep ya head up despite everything around us.
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