Coming in right on the beat and burning through any vapours of indecision to reach another three-minute blast of inch-perfect, beneath-skin-seeping indie pop music in the best of their long traditions, The Boo Radleys release their latest slice of new music – Now That’s What I Call Obscene. The single’s happy-go-lucky-beat and sunny day melodies leave ajar another window onto their eighth album, Eight, released on Fri 9 June 2023 on their Boostr label, yet the sugar-sweet sounds are, once again, laced with the acid tang of discontent as the band takes on the world’s haters and hypocrites.
Looking ahead to two separate tours this year, one focused on the music of their feted 1993 album, Giant Steps, as they look back for it’s 30th Anniversary, in June and another in October and November alongside friends and contemporaries, Cud, the renewed sense of energy around the band and reawakened enthusiasm of their fans is palpable as another year in The Boo Radleys’ four-decade history progresses nicely.
Not letting nostalgia get in the way, Now That’s What I Call Obscene is a song for the present, drawing both on the band’s world-wary and world-weary observations of the division and scorn cast on easy targets by the powerful and ignorant. A wise prophecy in disguise, the covert message comes coated in typical Boos radio-friendly melodies, Simon ‘Sice’ Rowbottom’s instantly recognisable, welcoming vocals and thumping sway-along percussion making for a searching listen to uncover the track’s truths.
Sice says of the track: “This one’s a fury filled rant against the hypocrisy of ideologies and religions that find armed conflict and violence morally acceptable, but the idea of homosexuality abhorrent. It’s possibly one of the poppiest things on the album and the duality of this, and the fury of the words, hold together like a Mexican standoff.”
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