The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness - The Third Wave Of​.​.​.

€7.00 - €16.50

The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness - The Third Wave Of​.​.​.

€7.00 - €16.50

You leave work after a difficult day. You slept little the night before. Some things are not going well. You are no longer so young and everything weighs more. On the way home you stop by your favorite bakery and treat yourself. You were clever and left some drinks in the fridge. You sit on the sofa and choose a record: the new one by The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness. This mysterious cult group has already made you happy with their two previous out-of-print albums (Dead Calm, Pretty Olivia Records, 2019 and Songs From Another Life, Bobo Integral Records, 2021). You're enjoying a group at its sweetest, their songs sound inspired, still fresh, and their records sell out in no time.

The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness is a group in which Andrew Taylor (Scotland, also in Dropkick) and Gonzalo Marcos (Spain, also in El Palacio de Linares) play. They work remotely, along with the times. They have fans in their native countries but also in the United States, Australia, South Africa, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Norway... They have been album of the month for Paste (USA), featured album for Télérama (France) and for El País (Spain). They've been praised by top jangle pop blogs - Janglepophub called TBWTPN "the most perfect voice in jangle/power-pop at present (sorry Teenage Fanclub fans!)" – or in power pop - Powerpopaholic: "Highly Recommended and a contender for my top 10 in 2021 list" (9/10) – or in cult blogs - Raven Sings The Blues: "The Boys are wrapping their heartache in a cavalcade of hooks that are rather hard to ignore as they flip through an alternate history radio station where Superdrag's second LP got the praise it deserved, Teenage Fanclub topped everyone's list over Nirvana in '91 and Matthew Sweet kept on writing songs for Choo Choo Train rather than split solo".

Their third album is called “The Third Wave of…” and will be released by Tear Jerk Records (Australasia) and Bobo Integral Records (rest of the world) on September 9, 2022. It has been produced by Yon Vidaur at Muir Estudio and mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios. The art of the album has been done by Manuel Marsol.

The record contains 10 songs (how not?) and it doesn't last half an hour (why more?). The guitars jangle from minute 0 (delicious “As the Day Begins”). This jangle is complemented by distorted guitars and powerpop airs in songs like “Look Back” (a hit with one foot in the romantic power pop of The Keys, The Toms, The Records, the Flamin Groovies of the Shake Some Action era and another chasing the vibes of The Cars, Weezer and even The New Pornographers), “In the Right” (the best Graham Parker or Joe Jackson must be named here, and pay close attention to the dub arrangement that splits the song in two) or the most badass “ Out of Time”, which is as if Weezer, Dinosaur Jr. and Nada Surf were 20 years old and played together. There is a milestone on this album and that is that Mary Lou Lord sings a duet with Andrew throughout the song “Isolation”, a beautiful mid-tempo jangle a la The Bevis Frond that takes the Boys to a new dimension. Mary Lou Lord! Colleague of Elliott Smith and Kurt Cobain, a myth of the not-so-underground American music and a unique voice that should have never stopped being the protagonist. “The Stars Go Round”, “Open Up the Box” and “Old Ways” are three wonderful compositions linked to the precious indie pop of Teenage Fanclub, Velvet Crush or The Primary 5, the bands that matter! A novelty is the use of the piano on this album, à la E Street Band, à la Attractions, in energetic and splendid songs like “Old Pictures of Ourselves” and “Turning Red”.

10 songs, 10 possible singles, 10 hits. The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness already have their third album here, which will surely continue to increase their status as a cult band for gourmets of the best popular music made in the last 70 years.