Bobbie, by Pip Blom

Bobbie

by Pip Blom

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chahula Fun, pop-y, dance-y, sometimes rock 'n' roll-y
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Just popping back in to say that this album gets better and better after every listen Favorite track: Kiss Me By The Candlelight.

Jeroen Did not expect this. But Pip Blom being Pip Blom is what I'm in for. Catchy as heck; love it! Favorite track: Tiger.

jonnyambrose fantasies = pulsing sync power goodness

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1.	Not Tonight 03:43	buy track
2.	Tiger 02:52	buy track
3.	Red 04:00	buy track
4.	Kiss Me By The Candlelight 03:20	buy track
5.	I Can Be Your Man 03:36	buy track
6.	Where'd You Get My Number 03:32	buy track
7.	Brand New Car 03:40	buy track
8.	Is This Love? 03:32	buy track
9.	Fantasies 03:31	buy track
10.	Again 03:23	buy track
11.	Get Back 03:29	buy track
12.	7 Weeks 03:37	buy track

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Amsterdam’s Pip Blom have today announced details of their new album, Bobbie, and shared the track ‘Is This Love?’, featuring Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos. Released on Friday 20th October 2023 on Heavenly Recordings, the band previously shared ‘Tiger’ from the album.

For their third album, Bobbie, Pip Blom, the band’s namesake and main writer, decided to rip it up and start again. After making her name as one of the brightest indie rock singers around through two albums and a lauded live show honed over gruelling years of touring, the new album sees her and the band take a delightful left turn into thumping, carefree synth pop.

While admitting to the cliché of a guitar-orientated band “grabbing the synths” for album three, this new direction had a real and genuine draw for Blom and foremost in her mind was cult 2010s English pop band Micachu and the Shapes. On her previous albums, Blom wrote songs on the guitar, hoping that the studio process would then allow her to live out her pop dreams through final flourishes added during the recording process. “But we were always then running out of time,” she remembers, “and they ended up as just guitar-y albums.” For Bobbie, work with synthesisers and computers began from the very beginning, and she recruited producer Dave McCracken in a co-writer role to make sure the vision was fully realised.

To immerse herself in this new way of working, Blom worked on the album in separate, intensive bursts of creativity, based around a series of non-stop five-day studio jaunts in her native Netherlands. The songs were then sent to McCraken – whose credits include Jay-Z and Kanye West – to gain a little more “clarity” and be trimmed into the tight, punchy pop hits that make up the new album.

Also on hand to help her achieve her longtime vision were a pair of collaborators that contribute to two of the album’s highlights. Blom’s partner and vocalist of fellow Dutch indie band Personal Trainer, Willem Smit, joins her on the duet ‘Kiss Me By The Candlelight’, a song lifted from an unreleased project from the pair that recalls Metronomy in its minimal, funky disco pop. Elsewhere, McCracken helped her push through initial shyness to reach out to Alex Kapranos of former Pip Blom tourmates Franz Ferdinand, who hops on the album’s giddy highlight, ‘Is This Love?’.

As well as a musical eureka moment, Bobbie is also a lyrical evolution for Blom. “I always find lyrics difficult because I’m not a native speaker,” she says. “I find it hard to spend time on them because it feels a bit forced.” For the new album, she wrote what she calls ‘guide books’ of the general themes and ideas wanting to be tackled, before teaming up with McCracken to sculpt them into songs.

Despite the huge strides taken on album three, it appears to confirm that Bobbie is only the next step in Pip Blom’s journey, and far from a final destination. “I wanna start again,” she and the band sing together to send the album off, revolutionising their sound in the most thrilling of new beginnings. So, so much more is sure to come.

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released October 20, 2023

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Pip Blom Amsterdam, The Netherlands

A band from the Netherlands.

shows

May 10

Pilar

Brussels, Belgium
May 23

Catton Hall

Walton-on-trent, UK
May 25

Multiple Venues, Newcastle

Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
May 27

Docks Academy

Grimsby, UK
May 28

Bedford Esquires

Bedford, UK
May 31

Cheltenham Racecourse

Cheltenham, UK
Jun 1

Clwb Ifor Bach

Cardiff, UK
Jun 1

Clwb Ifor Bach

Cardiff, UK
Jul 12

Christchurch Meadows

Reading, UK
Jul 12

Old Fire Station

Bournemouth, UK
Aug 7

Sziget Festival

Budapest, Hungary
Nov 7

Multiple Venues - Seattle

Seattle, WA

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