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FP012: Monkey Thoughts - BOSS
Following rapturous reception for their 2020 singles “STS” and “Salome”, the band return with their third release, Monkey Thoughts, a track which channels the unhinged energy of a live show honed in the year since the world emerged blinking from lockdown.
Guided by an ethic of independence, for this latest single, BOSS kept things close, recording at ‘The Drive’ with the band’s own drummer Elliott Batten and his brother Max helming the desk – a production duo responsible for such unhinged heaters as Horsey’s debut album Debonair.
The artwork too was provided courtesy of Batten. The cover image evokes a Rorschach test, the bleed of ink blots inviting the viewer to glean meaning from abstraction. But in this seemingly benign psychometric exercise, an unsettling question lurks: if sinister associations are discerned, are these truly imminent in the image itself, or emergent from somewhere more internal?
All this could be conceived as a synesthetic rendering of the track’s main themes. Written and fronted by guitarist Oscar Lane, Monkey Thoughts charts a descent into self-doubt, where the mind turns internecine and becomes a place where, in an eerie inversion, thoughts themselves take on the air of assailants. But if lyrically introspective, the song’s sonic landscape puts a very different inflection on these themes. Less melancholic than histrionic, the track is a terse cut of contrived chaos, composed of brittle shards of guitars and fragmented bars, liable to maim as they ricochet off the aural walls.
Pace unrelenting, it hurtles through its sub-two-minute duration, bursting at the seams with the screams of all three band-members before collapsing, utterly spent as if dashed against a dead end. But far from finality, Monkey Thoughts is a statement of intent and sign of things to come; at once a call to arms and a dictate to rise above.
lyrics
Monkey thoughts
Gonna get the best of me
If I don’t keep on my twos
Castle of mouths I
know why you keep on
chatting away Cos
1, 2, 3
tried to catch myself relief
The treasure
was never
Gold or pearls
So fuck an earl
Tired being
the one ‘a’ blamin’
when I'm the one
full of shame
and craving’
This city of vice
between my 4 walls
took a hold of me
well before I thought twice
So I took my pipe and let it burn me
And 12 months on
I’m the most sanitized
With a heart
on decline and a mind set too deep
This is deep
I've deeped it
Now I see
numbered days
Tired being
the one ‘a’ blamin’
when I'm the one
full of shame
The treasure
was never
Gold or pearls
So where is
my peace of mind
credits
released April 1, 2022
Written & performed by F'Dust, BossOLa & El B
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