Pip Blom in York

Pip Blom
The Crescent, York
Thursday 5th December 2024, £16.50
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For her third album, Bobbie, Dutch singer-songwriter Pip Blom decided to rip it up and start again. After making her name as one of the brightest indie rock singers around through two albums 2019 debut Boat and 2021 follow-up Welcome Break and a lauded live show honed over gruelling years of touring, the new album sees her 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. Foremost in her mind was cult 2010s English pop band Micachu and the Shapes, led by the effervescent Mica Levi. Across four studio albums and a number of artist monikers, Levis band made colourful and vivacious pop music that burst outwards from a grounding in indie music. On Bobbie, Blom makes similar jumps and blows her own musical landscape wide open.

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.

Its hardly a surprise, then, that Blom immediately feels utterly at home in her new clothes on Bobbie. Lead single Tiger introduces the new sound in the catchiest, most sugary way possible via a booming synth line and a superbly catchy chorus. Its my favourite song off the album, Blom says of the comeback single. Its quite different to what weve done before. I dont want to sound arrogant, and I find these things difficult to say about my own tracks, but its quite an earworm! Its good to surprise people with a new sound, and though it still sounds like a Pip Blom track because it has my voice on it and the melodies I tend to write, its from a different source. I wanted to be bold and do something new.

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