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Blossoms and Rick Astley mix to ship one of many coolest Reside Lounges in ages
Danny Jones
Let’s begin this off by clearing one thing up: we’re in no way saying that there haven’t been good appearances within the Reside Lounge of late however, by way of the calibre of covers to have ever graced BBC Radio, this Blossoms and Rick Astley collab is without doubt one of the finest we’ve heard in years.
Blossoms and Rick Astley have change into agency associates and have carried out collectively on a number of events in latest instances – most famously performing a variety of The Smiths classics again in 2021 – so it didn’t come as an excessive amount of of a shock after we noticed him becoming a member of them on the Radio 1 studios earlier this week.
The Newton-le-Willows-born singer even featured in movies in addition to promo clips for his or her newest album Gary, which went straight to primary again in September, and now his newest crossover is available in one of many coolest little remixes the Reside Lounge has been given for some time.
Please take pleasure in Charli XCX‘s ‘360’, the lead single from her smash-hit file, Brat, bleeding seamlessly into ‘Music Sounds Higher With You’ by Stardust.
Actually, is that this Blossoms with Rick Astley masking ‘The Music Sounds Higher With You’?
Oh sure…. pic.twitter.com/9qri48GKJ2
— Dave Haslam (@Mr_Dave_Haslam) October 14, 2024
Come on, how intelligent is that?
The primary time we noticed this clip reposted on social we didn’t even know Rick was going to pop up in direction of the top however boy are we glad we did it.
After Blossoms frontman Tom Odgen delivers his pared-down efficiency of 1 digital pop track, the 59-year-old effortlessly sidles as much as sing the opposite, even placing a little bit of gruff behind that refrain.
With Josh Dewhurst mixing the 2 tracks completely with that immediately recognisable little guitar riff, it’s just like the listener will get that thrilling second of realising the place the remixed cowl goes – a sense we’ve not had from a Reside Lounge session in a while.
Not solely does it work as a break up nevertheless it additionally works as a result of these key tones and the easy however catchy acoustic development working all through do really feel very Blossoms, and if there’s one factor that outlines a nice BBC Radio Reside Lounge it’s an artist masking an iconic observe while nonetheless sounding like themselves.
We are inclined to agree with these guys – although we nonetheless stan Smooth Play’s (a.ok.a. Slaves) cowl of Shutdown by Skepta with a fierce ardour.
Needed to replace the @BBCR1 Reside Lounge rating after @BlossomsBand, lives have been modified pic.twitter.com/uNvrRmKXl3
— Keira Knox (@KeiraKnox06) October 16, 2024
blossoms’ dwell lounge is genuinely one in all my favorite issues; masking 360 is probably among the finest issues they’ve executed
— carina 🫶🏻 (@menswear_styles) October 15, 2024
blossoms by no means miss with a dwell lounge
— lu ≅ (@ptghfender) October 14, 2024
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It’s additionally value noting that this isn’t even the primary time the Stockport boys have nailed a Reside Lounge efficiency as their 2017 cowl of ‘In Da Membership’ by 50 Cent nonetheless dwell rent-free in our heads too.
We actually loved their efficiency of their ‘Good Me’, ‘There’s A Motive Why’ and ‘I Like Your Look’ on the day too and the entire session served as yet one more reminder of how the native lads actually are on high type.
It additionally begs the query: are they up there with one of the best Reside Loungers ever?…
You possibly can watch the remainder of Blossoms‘ Reside Lounge performances over time down beneath:
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Featured Photos — BBC Radio 1 (through YouTube)