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 Abnormal Wars, a brand new four-song EP, on November 21 by way of Spartan. Try the lead single “Abnormal Struggle” and its music video under.
“I take into consideration how brief life is quite a bit,” 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 side 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 option to take these. America is a enterprise and all of us work for the corporate. If one have been to combat a struggle towards these fabrications, one must begin breaking that framework and worth system down. The struggle can be inside every of us. Denying these forces making an attempt to purchase our minds and time. We’re part of one thing a lot greater. So it’s not an unusual struggle.”
Boys Life shaped 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 live shows, they hadn’t written songs collectively since their unique run. Finally, the Numero reissues lighted a inventive spark throughout the band, with the quartet heading to native Kansas Metropolis studio Weights and Measures Soundlab to file Abnormal Wars in June 2024 with Duane Trower.
