– Pip Blom – in session for Riley & Coe – BBC 6 Music – October 24, 2023 – BBC Radio –
Pip Blom in session tonight. Pip Blom is from Amsterdam. The band is named after lead singer Pip Blom. The band has released three full-length albums since they got together in 2016. For their third album released earlier this week, on October 20th, 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.
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, revolutionizing their sound in the most thrilling of new beginnings. So, so much more is sure to come.
Press Play and have a listen to this session, recorded only hours ago at BBC 6 Music for the Riley & Coe program.
Special thanks to Bandcamp for the bio information. Very much appreciated!
