Description
Boston Manorrsquos third fulllength 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 fivepiece 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 ldquovery chaoticrdquo, but the result is a truly ferocious album one that both draws and moves on from what theyrsquove done in the past, incorporating the gloomy atmospherics of 2018rsquos Welcome To The Neighbourhood with the highly charged yet melodic punk of 2016rsquos debut Be Nothing.Yet while GLUE consolidates the different musical avenues Boston Manor have explored since forming in 2013, itrsquos very much an album that represents who they are ndash and reflects the state of the world ndash right now in 2020. That, Cox admits, isnrsquot particularly pretty. ldquoIts a lot more abrasive and a weirder record,rdquo says Cox. ldquoMy parents donrsquot like it as much as the last one, but I dont think theyrsquore really our demographic, so Im not too worried about that. Its 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.rdquo
