The Boxer Rebellion Announce New Album 'Ghost Alive'
Tuesday, 30 January 2018
Written by Laura Johnson
The Boxer Rebellion will release their sixth studio album this spring.
'Ghost Alive', the follow up to 2016's 'Ocean by Ocean', will arrive on March 23 via the band's own label, Absentee Recordings.
Speaking about the new record, frontman Nathan Nicholson said:
"This album was certainly born during a particularly challenging time for my family and I. Late one evening - right in the middle of pre-production - I was informed by telephone of my Dad's passing. I was in London with my wife and son, and left first thing in the morning to fly back to Maryville, Tennessee, where I'm from.
When I returned to London I felt I had some sort of out-of-body experience - I came back with a different point of view, and all the unimportant shit in my life just faded away. Often fans come up to us after a show and tell us their personal feeling of a song, which is usually a wildly different interpretation than whatever I might have written about. That's the really wonderful thing about songs - they can be deeply personal, and whatever the listener takes away from that one piece of music is what counts. What is different about this record - this particular group of songs - is that they mean something completely different to me since my dad died. I almost feel like I've become the listener rather than the songwriter, and these songs mean more to me now than when they were written.
Ghost Alive is an album that has become immensely comforting to me personally, and one that would never have been what it is without loss. I sincerely hope many others will get the same feelings of love and support from this album as I do."
Lead guitarist Andrew Smith added:
"On this record we dealt with delicate emotions out in the open. We wanted to communicate this personal vulnerability by underpinning Nathan's lyrics with orchestral textures.
Rather than stripping back, we wanted to maximise the full power of emotive instruments on this album. We achieved big, immersive, sweeping sounds that we've never been associated with before, but also delivered on heightening the sincerity and intimacy of the lyrics. We wanted to represent these emotions sonically with different colours, and of course strings and horns played a significant part in this." Smith spent a lot of time focussing on these arrangements, and with bassist Adam Harrison, and drummer Piers Hewitt, the four members of The Boxer Rebellion set about crafting the album's presentation with co-producer Adam 'Cecil' Bartlett."
Head below to listen to a new track, Goodnight, and check out the band's upcoming tour dates.
The Boxer Rebellion Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows:
Sat February 24 2018 - LEEDS Brudenell Social Club
Sun February 25 2018 - BRISTOL Thekla
Tue February 27 2018 - MANCHESTER Deaf Institute
Wed February 28 2018 - LONDON Islington Assembly Hall
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