ARTIST: The Boggs
TITLE: Forts
LABEL: Gigantic Music
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 187kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 40m total
RELEASE DATE: 2007-05-08
RIP DATE: 2007-05-11
Track List
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1. Forts 2:55
2. Remember The Orphans 2:57
3. Little Windows 3:43
4. One Year On 2:48
5. Arm In Arm 3:44
6. Bookends 3:52
7. After The Day 3:25
8. The Passage 4:00
9. So I So You 3:03
10. Melanie In The White Coat 2:43
11. If We Want (We Can) 1:41
12. Poor Things 3:58
13. Holiday 1:22
Release Notes:
"The garage-rock-disco-rave meltdown sound of 2007,
get acquainted or get lost!"
NME
Flash forward. Flash back.
Tune in New York, Germany, California, South Africa, the UK...
Moving across genres and borders as easily as a dial moving up and down the AM
band, The Boggs have spent the past six years defining, refining, building up,
and breaking down their take on proto post folk garage punk folk punk blues and
disco. Founded in 2001, principle member Jason Friedman has kept the band moving
through a number of incarnations, with time off for the occasional side
endeavor--a move to Berlin to focus on a series of large scale drawings, for
example, or directing a video for sometime tour-mates The Rapture.
"Quite easily one of New York's best rock exports at the moment."
Dazed
"Nothing less than a sonic revelation."
Magnet
Over two years in the making, the forthcoming album Forts follows on the
unhurried heels of 2002's We Are The Boggs We Are and 2003's lost critics'
darling Stitches.
Forts' birthing process started on Friedman's kitchen floor in Berlin before
being brought to maturity in late 2006 at New York's Gigantic Studios. As
cartographers of the New Weird America before such a term came into marketing
play, the Boggs have laid claim to territory well outside the usual indie
imaginings and instead created a musical landscape that manages to be both
achingly familiar and yet almost lunar in its strangeness--a field recording
beamed in from a world in which boundaries and decades are irrelevant.
Tipped in TIME OUT NEW YORK to be
one of 2007's "...biggest breakout successes..."
'5 To Watch For.' Time Out NY Student Guide, August, 2006