The Boys "The Boys" 2025-01-10 Simultaneously avant-garde and familiar-sounding

Simultaneously avant-garde and familiar-sounding

Alchemized by a swampy summoning of Southern rock and coarse poetry

The long-awaited 5th album from Modest Mouse

broken cameras and flaming electronic equipment at the bottom

and final album with guitarist Jason Hook

The Boys "The Boys" 2025-01-10 Simultaneously avant-garde and familiar-soundingArguably one of the best punk albums of the 70s, The Boys self titled debut (produced by Dangerfield & Steel) is a cult UK classic. The album is filled with the pop punk gems, the kind of immediate salvos that would elevate Buzzcocks into the charts. In the intervening years, the history of punk rock has been written and re written and a whole heap of bands have been sidelined. The Boys debut album, re mastered here still sounds as fresh and immediate