What Difficult Second Album?

“The content and the lyrics and the themes probably came from watching a lot of films and TV in that time, when we were all either furloughed or whatever.” 
Bobby Pook

Blackpool post-rockers Blanket have smashed through their difficult second album, Modern Escapism. There were challenges, yes, but they came from an unexpected angle. Not inter-band politics, nor the pandemic, but writing too much material. According to guitarists and vocalists Simon Morgan and Bobby Pook, they wrote more than 40 songs in total for the new album. The problem wasn’t writer’s block, but deciding where to take the band next.

“What is a Blanket song? Fuck it!” says Pook, recalling their change in tack.

Morgan adds with a laugh, “There were riffs that Bob played, and it was almost like we found it funny because