Foolish Loving Spaces

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Foolish Loving Spaces
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Studio album by
Released31 January 2020 (2020-01-31)
RecordedMay–December 2019
StudioParr Street Studios, Liverpool
Length34:05
Label Virgin EMI
Producer
Blossoms chronology
Cool Like You
(2018)
Foolish Loving Spaces
(2020)
Blossoms in Isolation
(2020)
Singles from Foolish Loving Spaces
  1. "Your Girlfriend"
    Released: 20 June 2019
  2. "The Keeper"
    Released: 22 November 2019
  3. "If You Think This Is Real Life"
    Released: 27 January 2020
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 76/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Clash 8/10 [3]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
musicOMH Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
NME Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]

Foolish Loving Spaces is the third studio album by English indie pop band Blossoms. It was released on 31 January 2020 by Virgin EMI Records, and again produced by James Skelly and Rich Turvey. [7] The album was supported by the singles "Your Girlfriend", "The Keeper" and "If You Think This Is Real Life". It debuted atop the UK Albums Chart, becoming the band's second UK number-one album, with 18,945 copies sold in its first week in the UK. [8] [9]

Contents

Background and recording

Frontman Tom Ogden began writing the album at his parents' house, where he wrote the first two Blossoms albums, as he had started renovating the home he shared with his girlfriend. He resolved to make his room the first room finished in the renovation process so as to write there; after the work was done, he bought an upright piano and wrote 25 songs after being inspired by Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense , U2's The Joshua Tree and Primal Scream's Screamadelica . The initial plan to record the album in Nashville was abandoned in favour of the "more familiar surroundings" of the Parr Street Studios in Liverpool. [10]

Track listing

Foolish Loving Spaces track listing
No.TitleLength
1."If You Think This Is Real Life"2:51
2."Your Girlfriend"2:41
3."The Keeper"3:23
4."My Swimming Brain"3:48
5."Sunday Was a Friend of Mine"3:09
6."Oh No (I Think I'm in Love)"3:45
7."Romance, Eh?"2:50
8."My Vacant Days"2:25
9."Falling for Someone"3:35
10."Like Gravity"5:38
Total length:34:05

Personnel

Credits adapted from Foolish Loving Spaces liner notes. [11]

Charts

Sales chart performance for Foolish Loving Spaces
Chart (2020)Peak
position
Irish Albums (IRMA) [12] 67
Scottish Albums (OCC) [13] 2
UK Albums (OCC) [14] 1

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [15] Silver60,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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