Nick at the excellent Add To Wantlist suggests that Boyracer were always destined to write about and he's right. I look at Indie and it has become a catch all term for anything and everything. This is an album that defines what Indie should be about.
It is wonderfully chaotic instrumentally. Guitar riffs all over the place, wonderfully muddy at times, but incredibly melodic. If you like the Guitar, you will love this. The vocals are deliberately lower in the mix which allows you to appreciate the wonderful Guitar attack.
Those vocals are shared excellently between Stewart Anderson and Christina Riley, sometimes separately, sometimes together and even delivered alternatively by verse. It is a crack 5 piece outfit that not only fleshes out the sound, but allows departures into surprising areas.
There is the ace mix of 60s Pop and R and B of You Don't Love Me as an interesting departure, all fuzzed up of course. The Garage Rock of Rails is superb, the instrumental on Larkin could be prime time Blondie and the Bassline on Unknown Frequencies is totally hypnotic.
Boyracer rarely come up for air and here save it for the wonderful closer Homemade Fireworks which shows a different side to the band, a restraint that works beautifully. Incidentally, I mentioned that I hadn't heard whistling on an album for a long time and I've heard it for the third time in a few days now.
I suppose that you would call the band veterans now. There is something apt about their 15th album containing 15 songs. To be fair though, every album sounds as exciting as a debut and for that they deserve a big round of applause.
You can listen to and buy the album here. It is available on Vinyl or as a download.
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