Bos Angeles - Days Of Youth / Beach Slalom

Just as the last few rays of Indian summer sun disappear from the increasingly gloomy skies, a much needed hit of fuzz-filled ray beams and youthful abandon arrives in the form of the UK's best new lo-fi indie-punks, Bos Angeles. Hailed as one of the most eagerly anticipated new bands around by everyone from NME to The Fly, the band are readying this, their debut double A-side single on acclaimed new imprint Roundtable Records, home to the likes of The History of Apple and Computer Magic.

Consisting of frontman and songwriter Richard Board, drummer Ben Perry and bassist George XXX, the no-frills trio hail from idyllic Boscombe, near Bournemouth. As the legend tells it, their stomping ground has become something of a sonic refractor for their odes to giddy, heady good-times, and fucking shit up. "I think growing up in a town like Boscombe can't help but influence you," ponders Richard. "We wouldn't name the band after it if we weren't weirdly fond of the place. But it's that classic thing of literally never having anything to do, so writing songs about the things you wish you were doing, or things wish you didn't have to do to keep yourself from dying of boredom." As both the Ronseal song-titles suggest, this is the stuff escapist dreams were made of...

The sound they conjured from the depths of delinquent delirium are frantic and frazzled, feeling allied in their discordant jangling alongside the likes of gigging partners Male Bonding, Mazes and Gross Magic, but turbo-charged with a quick-fix hook-driven rhetoric that gives them a dizzyingly catchy spirit and makes the chaotic carnage of their live shows just that little bit sweeter to swallow.

Both songs, true to form, were written and recorded at home by main man Richard, with 'Days of Youth' being given an extra mixing twist in -funnily enough- Los Angeles by none other than Tom Biller, studio bod behind the likes of Warpaint, Liars and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

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