North West group Boston Manor have shared their first new music of the year in the form of ‘Container’.
Delivered with a familiar urgency and raw emotion, ‘Container’ thrives with its sonic groove. Lyrically, it sees Boston Manor ruminate about getting a second chance. Lead singer Henry Cox explains it’s inspired by “the panic that sets in knowing you need to change your world before it’s too late and you get swallowed up and lost forever. It’s about the stagnancy of life creeping up on you and how that can bring about change.”
While Boston Manor‘s 2022 full-length, ‘Datura’, saw the band take a layered, cinematic, and dark turn, ‘Container’ indicates a more uplifting and reflective approach. Four albums into their career, Boston Manor seem to have realised the power and unity their music can bring. It’s a sentiment Cox agrees with, stating “I think it’s really important to write something that people can be immersed in and find some sort of solace in.”
Boston Manor Announce April UK Tour
In addition to sharing their latest single, Boston Manor have detailed a run of headline shows for this April. The seven-date run will include support from Oversize.
April
5th World HQ, Newcastle
6th Yellow Arch, Sheffield
7th The Caves, Edinburgh
9th Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich
10th Future Yard CIC, Birkenhead
11th O2 Academy, Oxford
12th Oslo Hackney, London
Tickets go on sale on Monday, 19th February at 10am.
Boston Manor will also be appearing at the 2000trees Festival on July 10th.
‘Container’ Lyrics
Is anybody out there now?
Is anybody real?
So run to the back door and run til you’re new
And pull that loose thread that’s been bothering you
Don’t turn around and look away what ever you do
I just woke up like this
Container (leave it & run)
It’s taken everything
Container
Mass appeal
Can you feel with your face to the wall?
Left in the last in the dark away from it all
No oxygen in the ceiling
Nothing that’s left to believe in now
Nothing to believe in now
I just woke up like this Container (leave it & run)
It’s taken everything
Container
Don’t tell me who you are
Show me what you’re made of
Show me who you are
Show me what you’re made of
Show me who you are
I just woke up like this Container (leave it & run)
It’s taken everything
Container
