With their sixth album Songs From The Wedding Cake freshly released, Blossoms do what they do best. Deliver groovy, fun, yet somehow heartfelt songs. It’s a record that feels like a wink: playful, romantic, and unabashedly domestic, but only if you’re in love, or at least willing to pretend for fourty‑five minutes.
Across ten tracks, they lean fully into the theme of married life, treating it less like a milestone and more like a playground. There’s a humour here that’s distinctly Blossoms.
The earnest songs in the second half, such as ‘Guts’ or ‘Where Have You Been All My Life’, offer a lovely contrast to the rather silly ones. And honestly, they pull the rating up again. The cherry on top, of course, is Elijah Hewson from Inhaler lending his vocals in yearning sincerity. His presence adds a welcome emotional depth, that meshes with Ogden’s perfectly.
Do I miss their earlier, more guitar-driven era? Absolutely. There’s a rawness to those older records that Songs From The Wedding Cake doesn’t particularly chase. This is a much more polished Blossoms, and at times that polish works against them. A few songs drift dangerously close to Gary territory. It’s not bad, just safe.
And yet, there’s something strangely admirable about the commitment to being silly. Blossoms don’t seem particularly interested in making a grand statement here. Instead, they’ve built an entire record around the domestic absurdity of married life and decided to have as much fun with it as possible. You can hear how much fun they’re having, and that joy becomes infectious.
Do I miss their earlier, more guitar‑driven era? Absolutely. There’s a rawness in those older records that this one doesn’t chase. But credit where credit’s due: one of the album’s standouts is Charlie Salt’s bass work, which gives some of the more polished moments a little extra movement.
Songs From The Wedding Cake is by no means a reinvention. It doesn’t have the rawness of their earlier work, nor does it feel particularly interested in pushing Blossoms somewhere completely new. Instead, they’re indulging themselves, by leaning into romance, domesticity, ridiculousness and all the fun that comes with it. And for some reason, that still enough to make the record worth spinning again.
SONGS FROM THE WEDDING CAKE OUT NOW.
Words by
Marie Müller, 2026