This Many
Boyfriends
Angular
Records
I am a new listener to This Many Boyfriends. Upon hearing
the album I feel like such a stupid, ignorant numpty. It is fast paced, gritty
pop, the type of album that makes you stand in front of your mirror and pretend
you’re a member of the band. It
immediately gives you the feeling that they are your favourite band and have
been for quite some time. The recording is purposefully not perfect which adds
so much more texture and atmosphere to the listen. It’s not clean-cut; it
doesn’t give you the impression that the band has a stylist and is aiming to be
bigger than Adele. This album strengthens my belief that listening to charts is
pointless. Who actually gives a fuck about the new One Direction track when
there are hidden gems like this out there?
This Many Boyfriends sound like a mutation of Let’s Wrestle,
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and The Cribs, which makes it quite fitting
that there is a Jarman behind the scenes. This almost feels like a live album,
the drums hitting you harder than a defibrillator. It genuinely makes me want
to teleport back in time to 17, buy a leather jacket, sweat and dance in some
overcrowded thrown together club night and fall in love.
The surprising thing to me is that this is a debut album and
all 10 songs could be a single. This is a rarity, believe me. A massive well
done to This Many Boyfriends and to Mr Jarman. It’s safe to say that this album
should be huge, let’s just hope that people can agree with me, that sometimes
it’s nice to go back to basics and appreciate a decent album.
This Many Boyfriends release this self-titled album on the
8th of October and you should buy it. Period.
Jack Falcon
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