It's a fairly well know fact that Austin, TX is the coolest city on planet Earth. Now there's another reason to believe.
Austin's The Boxing Lesson give an American update to fuzzy, atmospheric, UK Shoegazer song textures to create Wild Streaks and Windy Days.
From the opening track, the Spiritualized-esque "Dark Side Of The Moog" (my pick for song title of the year) onward, The Boxing Lesson creates vast, all-encompassing soundscapes worthy of the best of the original UK scene. In fact you can almost trick your brain into adding a tinge of a Rob Dickenson accent to singer Paul Waclawsky's echo-processed vocals.
Many of the songs are epics, in the tradition of "Fripp" or "Sidewalking", and it's a testament to the band that they manage not only to prevent these instrumental opuses from becoming tedious, but they actually make them engaging for the listener. The layers of shimmering guitar feedback and clashing rhythm section and deft keyboard work of Jaylinn Davidson make this a striking album.
The punk rock influence that you hear on songs like "Hopscotch & Sodapop" put The Boxing Lesson's own spin on the genre.
Front-to-back Wild Streaks and Windy Days is a refreshingly intense and enthralling aural experience.
Best tracks: "Dark Side of the Moog", "The Art of Pushing Me Away"
Check out "Dark Side of the Moog" here.
Track listing for Wild Streaks and Windy Days:
- Dark Side of the Moog
- Brighter
- Lower
- Hopscotch & Sodapop
- Hanging With the Wrong Crowd
- Muerta
- Scoundrel
- Freedom
- Timing
- The Art of Pushing Me Away
- Dance with Meow
- Wild Streaks & Windy Days
8.0
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