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The Boggs are back with a new single from their up and coming 3rd album. Despite their shite name I don't mind these too much. They did a single sometime back I was so taken with I even took one. 'Arm In Arm' is the name of their new one and it's a right old glam stomper... I don't mind it if I'm honest. They seem to be able to string a song together.... I'm not sure why I like this but I do. It's got a lazy sound to it... I like the guys voice as well... He sounds like he's really not arsed. Nice.
What the label says:
To coincide with the release of amazing new album ‘Forts’ on February 25th, The Boggs are pleased to announce the release of new 7” single “Arm In Arm’, featuring an exclusive remix by Shy Child plus a limited 12” (500 copies worldwide) featuring “Arm In Arm” remix by Hot Chip backed with “Mra Ni Mra” (the remix played backwards).
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 endeavour – 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.
Over two years in the making, FORTS follows on the unhurried heels of 2002's We Are The Boggs We Are and 2003's lost critics' darling Stitches. FORTS started in 2004 on Friedman's kitchen floor in Berlin where, using roughshod recording techniques, he laid down raw tracks. Working with drummer Christian Obermier over the next year and a half, Friedman added fresh layers to these tracks in a series of Berlin studios. The finishing touches to each song were added by calling on special guests who came in to perform specific duties. After finally mixing the stacks of tracks hauled back from Europe to New York's Gigantic Studios, FORTS will be released in February 2008 on Tangled Up! Recordings.
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.
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