The more you learn about Blossom, the more improbable it seems. When Pupil Slicer entered The Ranch studio last year to spend a month recording it with Lewis Johns (Employed To Serve, Svalbard), not one of its constituent songs had actually been played as a band, together, all the way through. This wasn’t a problem, they told Kerrang! last year, unveiling the album for the first time, because they’d done it that way before and just learned to play the songs together on the fly. In the same conversation, there was talk that their second album was made up of “purposefully obvious Auto-Tuned vocals”, indie-rock, post-black-metal, 909-trap beats, 20 layers of synths, harder breakdowns. With almost perfect comic timing, singer/guitarist Kate Davies added as an afterth...