On the occasion of Blossoms 'self-titled (2016), Muziekweb provided' homework 'for a second album:' Mostly practice on your own sound. Now the band [from Stockport in Northern England] remains above all a good copy of their musical heroes'. Whether they have received the well-intentioned advice? Based on the successor Foolish Loving Places you would say no. Although the traces of and in particular
… - both from nearby Manchester - have largely disappeared, they have been replaced by a sound that previously and calls to mind. Cheerful and usually not bad (check the spicy opener If You Think This Is Real Life), but in songs like Oh No (I Think I'm In Love) so unpretentious that it almost becomes offensive. Only in the drawn-out, slightly psychedelic closing track Like Gravity do you spring up as a listener; hey, they can! Go on that next time, would you like to pass on Blossoms. (RME)more