Album review: Blossoms - Blossoms

4/5

Blossoms’ singer Tom Ogden was a young man in a hurry when I spoke to him at the start of the year. “Rock music goes in cycles and I think people are ready for a band they can believe in,” he told me, in a tone that made it clear he considered Blossoms just such a group.

Granted, this wasn’t quite Liam Gallagher laughing in Michael Hutchence’s face at the Brits or the Stone Roses proclaiming themselves the best band in the world — nonetheless, his confidence and ambition felt of a piece with that of great British rock ensembles of the past quarter century. Blossoms weren’t in it for critical love or cult fandom — finding a mainstream audience was their raison d’etre.