Blackpool based pop punks Boston Manor have been threatening to become something truly great and by taking a harder edge on third album ‘Glue’, they might just breakthrough and achieve the huge success they have been on the cusp of achieving. Boston Manor’s third full-length Glue is the sound of a band questioning the state of the world around them. Inevitably, in a critical examination of the modern world, it comes from a dark place, but one that fuelled the five-piece to create a body of work that elevates their craft further than ever before. Its 13 highly charged songs came out of a process that singer Henry Cox describes as “very chaotic”, but the result is a truly ferocious album – one that both draws and moves on from what they’ve done in the past, incorporating the gloomy atmospherics of 2018’s Welcome To The Neighbourhood with the highly charged yet melodic punk of 2016’s debut Be Nothing.
“It’s a lot more abrasive and a weirder record… It’s just new territory for us. The whole point was to throw away any preconceived notions of what the band is and push ourselves out of our comfort zone.”
“This is the start of our band finally becoming the band that we want to be. It’s taken us so long to get here, but I’m really proud of us for becoming our own thing. Not once did we think about what people wanted to hear – we just went entirely down the rabbit hole with it. Our only rule was to do what we wanted to do. And I’m really happy that we did that.” – Henry Cox
Tapping into the anger and frustrations of a generation that can see past the problems of late stage capitalism and yet are continued to kept down, ‘Glue’ tackles issues of toxic masculinity, mental trauma, class war and sets its sights on the powers that be, determined to see them come unstuck
“I want people to listen to it and feel something and think about things. The aim of the whole record is to make people angry. It’s to make them go ‘Well, this pisses me off, how can I change it? What is one thing that I can personally do – that I can start doing today – to make a difference?’ Because we can do better than this. We just need to start.” – Henry Cox
‘Glue’ is released on CD and limited spatter 12” vinyl, plus an additional 12” vinyl splatter design only available at independent record stores.
Boston Manor will be on the road this summer, playing SWX at Bristol, Electric Brixton in London, O2 Institute2 Birmingham, Newcastle Riverside, Rescue Rooms at Nottingham and Manchester Academy 2 during August 2020.
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