– Tom Ogden, Charlie Salt, Josh Dewhurst, Joe Donovan and Myles Kellock — today announce their sixth studio album, ‘Songs From The Wedding Cake’, arriving on October 2nd via ODD SK / Distiller Records. The announcement is accompanied by the release of brand new single ‘Meet Me In Love’ and its music video – directed by Tom and starring Maya Jama and Callum Scott-Howells.
Also announced today: a UK arena headline tour, the biggest of the band’s career. The band will be joined across all tour dates with very special guests
Following the release of recent single ‘Joke About Divorce’, ‘Meet Me In Love’ offers another glimpse into the world of Songs From The Wedding Cake. While its predecessor found humour in the kind of ill-judged comment that can emerge during an argument with your spouse, ‘Meet Me In Love’ shifts the focus to romance, pairing an irresistible disco groove with one of the album’s stand-out moments. The track also features backing vocals from fellow British songwriter and musician Declan McKenna.
Discussing the new single, ‘Meet Me In Love’, Tom says –
‘Meet Me In Love’ was written on a songwriting trip to the Lake District with Natalie Findlay and Jules Apollinaire. As often happens, it was the last day and we’d pretty much accepted that there probably weren’t any more songs left to write. We started messing around with a simple two chord disco groove and, within a couple of hours, the whole thing seemed to fall into place.
It’s one of those songs that felt exciting from the moment it arrived. I remember driving home from the Lakes listening to the demo on repeat for most of the journey. We later finished the recording with Shawn Lee at Tilehouse Studios, tracking live to tape, but a lot of what made us fall in love with the song in the first place came from that original demo, so plenty of those parts survived onto the final record.’
The accompanying video features a starring role from Maya Jama and arrives as the latest chapter in the visual world Blossoms are creating around Songs From The Wedding Cake.
Discussing the ‘Meet Me In Love’ video Tom says:
“Directed by myself, the video for ‘Meet Me In Love’ continues the world we first created in the video for Joke About Divorce, with Callum Scott Howells returning as our narrator. We shot it on 16mm film at Chad’s Theatre in Stockport, which gave everything the same cinematic feel we loved from the previous video.
After meeting Maya Jama at the MTV EMAs in Manchester a couple of years ago, we took a chance and sent her a DM to see if she’d be interested in being involved. She replied straight away saying she was up for it, and she was an absolute joy to work with. Together we created something that feels like a love letter to old Hollywood, 70s disco glamour and classic Top of the Pops performances. It’s colourful, romantic and a little bit surreal, which felt like the perfect visual for the song.”
The album title takes its name from a Stockport nickname for the town’s iconic Victorian town hall – where Tom got married. It’s an apt frame for a record built around one guiding idea: taking the ordinary moments of life and putting them through an extraordinary lens. The result is Blossoms at their most expansive and most personal; an irresistible cocktail of 80s-flecked funk, heart-on-your-sleeve anthems and dance-floor indie bangers that feels, ten years on from their Mercury Prize-nominated debut, like the record they’ve been building towards.
Songs From The Wedding Cake was recorded at Tilehouse Studios with producer Shawn Lee – known internationally as one half of London duo Young Gun Silver Fox. The collaboration came about through an unlikely connection between Lee and guitarist Josh Dewhurst.
“I was hooked by the way [Young Gun Silver Fox] sounded; they had this 70s style Steely Dan thing going on. But it turned out he was email friends with Josh [Dewhurst] because he grew up playing the video game Bully and Shawn did the soundtrack to it. Josh has always said that was one of his main influences for getting into music, so he dropped him a message and it went from there.”
Recording on tape, Lee’s instinct for warmth and spontaneity proved the perfect complement to Ogden’s songwriting.
“Shawn was very chilled and he’s up for letting everyone try new approaches. Working with him was a joy and he got the influences I was pulling from, even artists like Kid Creole and the funkier side of Blossoms. Shawn comes from that world and encouraged us to lean into it.”
Fans can access a special pre-sale by pre-ordering the album from blossomsband.co.uk.
Sat 28 Nov — Manchester, Co-op Live
Tickets go on fan pre-sale at 9:30am on Tuesday 24 June, with general sale at 9:30am on Thursday 26 June.
Buy tickets here – https://lnk.to/Blossoms2026
