Boston Manor Preview Fifth Album 'Sundiver' With New Single Heat Me Up
Thursday, 23 May 2024
Written by Laura Johnson
Photo: Megan Doherty
Boston Manor have announced a new album.
'Sundiver' is due for release on September 6 through SharpTone Records and opens a new chapter of a story that started with its predecessor, 2022's 'Datura', while exploring themes of hope and rebirth. Lead singer Henry Cox explained:
"Sundiver is the culmination of two years work and four years of planning. Going into the pandemic we knew our next record would be a double album released in two parts, the first a short shadowy-noiry electronic record set over one night and the second a sprawling rock record that documents the following day. Both albums are products of their environments, we made Datura in the dead of winter in a windowless studio complex that mostly just produced techno, we’d enter before the sun rose and leave long after it set, basically never seeing sunlight. We made Sundiver in Welwyn Garden City over two summers, we barbecued every day & would walk across the road to a meadow and just take naps in the sunshine when we weren’t recording.
"We’ve essentially been working on this album and building up to it since the pandemic. We were obsessed with trying to make a record that felt like blistering sunshine, or that wavy/hazy horizon you get when the pavement is super hot, but we didn’t want it to sound “happy” or “major key”. Sundiver is by far Boston Manor’s best and most ambitious record to date, and we couldn’t be happier with it, I really hope our fans love it as much as we do."
The new record will include their previously released singles Container and Sliding Doors, as well as the newly shared cut Heat Me Up, a heartfelt rock track with an earworm chorus. Cox continued:
"'Heat Me Up' ended up being the first track we finished on the album. We’d gone down to Welwyn Garden City where we were going to record the album to write and do some pre-production. It was actually our day off, it was a blistering hot day and we had nothing to do, so we had a barbecue in the garden and wrote a song. Sometimes tunes take months to write but this just flew right out in an afternoon. It’s a song about being utterly obsessed with someone and being grateful for what you have."
The Blackpool band have a busy summer ahead, with festival sets lined up in the UK and Europe, following which they'll head to Australia in August to support Trophy Eyes on their tour.
In September, the band will embark on their own headline UK tour, which will wrap up on September 27 with a London show at the O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire. Tickets are on sale now.
'Sundiver' tracklist:
Datura (Dawn)
Container
Sliding Doors
HEAT ME UP
Horses In A Dream
Morning Star
Why I Sleep
Fornix
Dissolve
What Is Taken, Will Never Be Lost
DC Mini (feat. Heriot)
Boston Manor Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Wed June 19 2024 - BRIGHTON Chalk
Wed September 18 2024 - NOTTINGHAM Rock City
Thu September 19 2024 - MANCHESTER O2 Ritz
Fri September 20 2024 - LEEDS Project House
Sun September 22 2024 - GLASGOW SWG3
Tue September 24 2024 - BRISTOL SWX
Wed September 25 2024 - SOUTHAMPTON Engine Rooms
Thu September 26 2024 - BIRMINGHAM XOYO
Fri September 27 2024 - LONDON O2 Forum Kentish Town
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