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LINSEY TEGGERT TALKS TO THE RADGY NEWCASTLE PUNX ABOUT ENCOURAGING CONVERSATIONS AROUND GENDER, SEXUAL IDENTITY AND MENTAL HEALTH ON THEIR DEBUT ALBUM They’re the self-proclaimed “cute punx” playing “pure radge shit,” but Newcastle trio Blóm are so much more than that (although they are indeed pretty darn cute and radge as heck). Blóm are challenging the typically male-dominated alt. music scene to be a safer and more diverse environment, while encouraging conversations about gender, sexual identity and mental health. Blóm’s mission statement? Be kind. Since forming in 2017, the three-piece have been tearing up stages with their ferocious live performances and have released the singles Powerfrau/Skank Witch and Toxic Dependency. They’re now ready
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to unleash their debut album Flower Violence: a succinct five-track firecracker of a record that fizzes with frantic energy. With its witches’ brew of genres it’s the perfect introduction to Blóm’s noise rock hybrid. “We’re each influenced by such a broad spectrum of music – our tastes are so varied and vast! I think we mainly crossover on weird noise stuff and pop music and we unintentionally bring all those influences into Blóm,” explains vocalist Helen Walkinshaw. “The writing and developing of these album tracks was pretty much ongoing from us forming. We all aimed from the start to piece
