Boys Life, the long-defunct Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, band who helped pioneer Midwest emo within the Nineteen Nineties, reunited final yr to reissue their seminal work on Numero. Now, they’ve introduced their first new music in practically 30 years. Boys Life will launch Ordinary Wars, a brand new four-song EP, on November 21 by way of Spartan. Take a look at the lead single “Extraordinary Battle” and its music video under.
“I take into consideration how brief life is rather a lot,” stated singer-guitarist Brandon Butler. “I feel we purchase right into a fantasy that America, cash, standing, time and titles are actual. These issues are actually simply fabrications within the framework of the American psyche. Our authorities has failed us. Company America owns each aspect of our lives. We’re all glued to social media. Low-cost dopamine hits scrolling by. Your concepts and emotions use to be the one factor somebody couldn’t take from you and now they discovered a technique to take these. America is a enterprise and all of us work for the corporate. If one have been to combat a struggle in opposition to these fabrications, one must begin breaking that framework and worth system down. The struggle could be inside every of us. Denying these forces attempting to purchase our minds and time. We’re part of one thing a lot larger. So it’s not an abnormal struggle.”
Boys Life fashioned again in 1993 and launched two albums: 1995’s self-titled debut and 1996’s Departures and Landfalls. Butler, guitarist Joe Winkle, bassist John Rejba, and drummer John Anderson bridged the hole between heavier indie rock and extra earnest baring emo collectively of their tight-knit Midwest scene, which included bands like Braid, Christie Entrance Drive, and others.
Though Boys Life reunited in 2015 for 3 exhibits, and once more in 2024 for 2 concert events, they hadn’t written songs collectively since their authentic run. Finally, the Numero reissues lighted a inventive spark inside the band, with the quartet heading to native Kansas Metropolis studio Weights and Measures Soundlab to report Extraordinary Wars in June 2024 with Duane Trower.
