{"id":95956,"date":"2024-04-08T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=95956"},"modified":"2024-04-07T20:04:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T19:04:06","slug":"song-of-the-day-boston-manor-sliding-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/song-of-the-day-boston-manor-sliding-doors\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day: Boston Manor – ‘Sliding Doors’"},"content":{"rendered":"

In February, Boston Manor<\/strong> returned with a track titled ‘Container\u2019<\/i>. Now as they hit the road for a headline UK tour, they’ve delivered one of their most instantaneous tracks in recent years. ‘Sliding Doors’\u00a0<\/i>thrives with spiky distortion that bubbles under in the verse and then erupts during the soaring chorus. Reminiscent of Deftones, it sees the North West group take a more abrasive approach yet maintains their raw energy.<\/p>\n

Named after the 1998 film of the same name<\/a>, the track sees\u00a0Boston Manor<\/strong> frontman Henry Cox reflect on what could’ve been, considering how the band came to fruition and what they’ve done in their time together.<\/p>\n

“I started thinking about all of the decisions that I\u2019ve made that have led me to the life I have and how circumstantial a lot of it is. It got me thinking about how Boston Manor started,”<\/em> explains Cox. “I\u2019d had a few conversations with Dan [Cunniff, bass] and Mike [Cunniff, lead guitar] (who I barely knew at the time) about starting a band. But at that time I was in art school in a different city and I had a bunch of other stuff going on. I was also starting like two other bands with different people so I figured it was just something that you talk about.”<\/em><\/p>\n

For Cox, his sliding doors moment involved a late-night bus crash that resulted in him going to Mike’s house. It would end with the pair writing the first\u00a0Boston Manor<\/strong> demo. “If that car hadn\u2019t pulled out on that bus, we probably never would\u2019ve started Boston Manor and been all the places we\u2019ve been, I wouldn\u2019t have met my wife and half of my friends. I don\u2019t know if I would even be playing music now,”<\/em> Henry reflects.<\/p>\n

The accompanying video for\u00a0‘Sliding Doors’<\/em> carries the same notion of how our decisions change who we are, creating different versions of ourselves. In this case, sees Cox take various career paths; supermarket assistant, factory worker, working in a bowling alley, and fronting Boston Manor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n