Taking you on a tour through ‘Strawberry Fields’ is the Stockport based five-piece Blossoms, with their debut single ‘Blow’. Swaggering like 50s beatniks, enter the much talked about new ‘psychedelic revivalists’ Blossoms. With uniformed black polo necks and not satisfied solely with being labelled as part of a new psychedelic revival scene, they decided to pen their own sub-genre, “Ethereal Nostalgic Sonance”. The single follows on from their debut EP Bloom, with a stand out track that came in the form of the melodic and psychedelically creeping ‘You Pulled A Gun On Me’, gaining them much deserved attention from NME and XFM.
‘Blow’ is played through chilling kaleidoscope eyes, with the shimmering guitar tones of Josh Dewhurst dripping in 60s nostalgia, while Myles Kellock’s swirling Hammond keys move mysteriously through theatrical smoke. Charlie Salt’s mauling bass groove and the solid percussion of Joe Donovan sit consistent behind the vocals of Tom Ogden, who croons like a cross between Ian McCulloch and Jim Morrison. The song is drenched in Liverpool psychedelia, inspired by the likes of The Beatles circa 1966-67, The Sonics and The Coral, no doubt indebted to Ian Turvey and The Coral’s James Skelly, who produced the single. ‘Blow’ is nostalgic yet inventive. Holding all the pop melodies and melodic hooks in the right places, while keeping an air of darkness and mystery. Check Blossoms out in an intimate venue before they bloom.
[Rating:3.5]
