Pip Blom Announce New Album, Share Video for New Tune “Is This Love?” (Feat. Alex Kapranos)

Bobbie Due Out October 20 through Heavenly

Jun 02, 2023

By Kat Ramkumar

Pictures by Sanjana Marusic

Amsterdam trio, Pip Blom have introduced the discharge of their third studio album, Bobbie, alongside a brand new single through music video titled “Is This Love” (which options Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos on each the music and within the video). Bobbie will probably be out October 20 through Heavenly. MrMr directed the “That is Love” video. Watch the video under, adopted by Bobbie’s tracklist, and canopy artwork under.

Pip Blom are a band, however it’s additionally the identify of the band’s frontwoman and foremost songwriter.

“Is This Love” strays from Pip Blom’s native rock music, with extra funkier influences from Alex Karpranos. “The good factor about working with Alex, moreover the truth that the ambiance was actually good, was that we each had fairly completely different views. Whereas I’m a bit extra rock by nature, Alex is quite a bit funkier. And that turned out to be the proper addition for this music, each within the verses and utterly within the refrain,” Blom says in a press launch. “By no means earlier than has such a cool Pip Blom music appeared, and all of us completely find it irresistible.”

Pip Blom’s experimentation with fashion can also be evidenced in numerous different Bounce For Pleasure songs, as they immerse themselves in a extra thumping and carefree synth. Whereas this has been a purpose for Pip Blom for years, it was lastly dropped at fruition underneath collaboration with producer Dave McCracken. Alongside making strides in musicality, Blom has pushed herself with the album’s lyricism. “I all the time discover lyrics tough as a result of I’m not a local speaker,” she says. “I discover it onerous to spend time on them as a result of it feels a bit compelled.”

Pip Blom’s final album was 2021’s Welcome Break. Final 12 months Franz Ferdinand launched a best hits album, Hits to the Head.

Bobbie Tracklist:

1. Not Tonight
2. Tiger
3. Purple
4. Kiss Me By Candlelight
5. I Can Be Your Man
6. The place’d You Get My Quantity
7. Model New Automotive
8. Is This Love?
9. Fantasies
10. Once more
11. Get Again
12. 7 Weeks