Boston Manor announce new album ‘Datura’

BOSTON MANOR have announced a new album!

Titled Batura, the upcoming album from the Blackpool-based alternative rock band is the follow-up to 2020’s Glue, and is scheduled to be released in October this year, via SharpTone Records.

The new album was recorded in Brixton with Larry Hibbitt, the HUNRED REASONS guitarist/vocalist-turned-producer. “We didn’t really do any writing for almost all of 2020,” says guitarist Mike Cunniff, “and that gave us a bit of a reset. Through working with Larry, we found what we felt was the most concentrated essence of BOSTON MANOR. The EP was the perfect jumping off point, and we wanted to carry on doing more of that. It feels a lot more refined – we wanted fewer songs so that we could be a lot more intentional.”

Speaking about the upcoming album, vocalist Henry Cox says, “I want people to connect with the themes of this album. Not so much in terms of it being so specific to me – although I hope they appreciate the vulnerability in it – but with the view that they can project their own life story onto it. At its core, this is an album about somebody struggling to get control of their life and pull themselves up. I think a lot of people can relate to that, especially in the times that we’re living in at the moment. So as much as I was writing about my problems, I hope people can find solace in it.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Passenger. The new song is the second single to be released from the upcoming album; following on from Foxglove, which was released back in April.

Speaking about the new song, Cunniff says, “it’s really one of our favourite songs on the record. We’ve been jamming it in rehearsals a little bit and it just works so well live. It was a very stripped back approach to writing as well. We didn’t want to put too much stuff in it, which kind of leaves us feeling a little bit vulnerable and naked onstage, when there’s not too many things going on. It was the last song we wrote and recorded for the record, the final piece of the puzzle.”

Watch the official music video for Passenger here:

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:

Track List: 

1. Datura (dusk)
2. Floodlights on the square
3. Foxglove
4. Passenger
5. Crocus
6. Shelter from the rain
7. Inertia

Datura is set for release on October 14th via SharpTone Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

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