{"title":"The Boo Radleys","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Boo Radleys are an English alternative rock band that was founded in Wallasey, Merseyside, England in 1988. Although they disbanded in 1999, the group recently reunited in 2020 without original member Martin Carr.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout their career, The Boo Radleys underwent a musical transformation, transitioning from nutty noise merchants to shoegazing dreampoppers and eventually becoming classic pop thoroughbreds who achieved Top 40 success in the UK. Despite their European stardom, the band never managed to break into the US music scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe current lineup of The Boo Radleys consists of Rob Cieka on drums, Simon \"Sice\" Rowbottom on vocals and guitar, and Timothy Brown on bass, guitar, and keyboards. Former members include Martin Carr (guitar, vocals, keyboards), Rob Harrison (drums), and Steve Hewitt (drums).\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"eight-4","title":"Eight","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Boo Radleys release a brand-new studio album, as well as the 30th Anniversary reissue of their lauded, landmark 1993 album, \u003ci\u003eGiant Steps\u003c\/i\u003e.  Given encouragement by the tremendous reception of last year’s live return and first album in more than two decades, the three-piece return quickly to release Seeker, the first cut from June’s new long-player, \u003ci\u003eEight.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarking perhaps their busiest ever year in 2023, the band makes up for lost time having been missing from the musical map since 1998 prior to reforming in 2021 and releasing their seventh album, \u003ci\u003eKeep On With Falling\u003c\/i\u003e, last March.  Keen to celebrate the past as well as the present, the announcement that \u003ci\u003eGiant Steps\u003c\/i\u003e, the Creation Records album that, for many, cemented their legacy as one of Britain’s greatest yet unsung bands will delight fans keen to complete their collections.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCherished, critically acclaimed and confrontational in its genre-ambiguity, the album is released on Vinyl and CD.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing their story to the present, The Boo Radleys new single, Seeker, introduces the band’s eighth album, released on the band’s own Boostr label. Where last year’s album, joyful in tone yet brooding with heavyweight lyrical themes, came together as an exploration of the isolated ideas of each member, \u003ci\u003eEight\u003c\/i\u003e is, according to vocalist and co-songwriter, Sice formed of songs recorded “purposefully to appear together on an album.” Before adding, “There is also a greater depth of integration, which means that it’s more difficult to tell which member of the band the song originated with.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReflecting on Seeker, the new album’s opening track, written about leaning on those we trust to share life’s highs and lows, bassist and co-songwriter, Tim Brown says: “This song started out as a three-chord synth pop tune and mutated into a brassy bop courtesy of trumpeter, Nick Etwell. 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Rising from cult-shoegaze band to the very forefront of British guitar pop inside one, eventful decade,and formed of original members, Sice, Tim Brown and Rob Cieka, the 11-songs on \u003ci\u003eKeep On With Falling\u003c\/i\u003e are the first to be developed by The Boo Radleys as a three-piece. Having recorded six of their seven, previous albums as a ‘hey day’ Creation Records band, working in expensive studios for long periods with cost no issue, the band grabbed the opportunity to test the qualities of modern, DIY recording. Through file sharing and their own, democratic production processes, what emerged was, according to the band, an album where songwriting ideas shone through, free of the static of ego and excess. Bassist and vocalist, Tim Brown, says: “The freedom of sharing files, comments, praise and concerns made it possible to quickly make music where the beauty of the songs shine through. As with all Boo Radleys music, there were no limitations on structure, instruments, and sounds, but this time we all had freedom to express our thoughts about the music we were making.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBonus Tracks on CD+:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. I’ll put the bars around my heart - alternative version (previously unreleased) 2. Thieves like us - New Order cover (previously unreleased) 3. All Along - Alternative version (previously unreleased) 4. Tonight - Alternative version (previously unreleased) 5. I can’t be what you want me to be - Piano version (previously unreleased) 6. Alone Together - Alternative version (previously unreleased) 7. See It Through (previously released digitally on the “A Full Syringe And Memories Of You” EP) 8. Life Is Getting Better (previously released digitally on the “A Full Syringe And Memories Of You” EP) 9. 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