Boston Manor announce new album ‘Sundiver’

May 24, 2024 James Weaver

BOSTON MANOR announce new album!

Titled Sundiver, the upcoming album from the Blackpool-based pop-rock band is the follow-up to 2022’s Datura, and is scheduled to be released in September this year, via SharpTone Records.

Speaking about the upcoming album, vocalist Henry Cox shares, “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.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, BOSTON MANOR have released a new song lifted from the upcoming album; HEAT ME UP. The new song is the third single to be released from the upcoming album, following on from Sliding Doors and Container.

Speaking about the new song, Cox says, “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.”

Listen to HEAT ME UP here:

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

Track List:

1. Datura (Dawn)
2. Container
3. Sliding Doors
4. HEAT ME UP
5. Horses In A Dream
6. Morning Star
7. Why I Sleep
8. Fornix
9. Dissolve
10. What Is Taken, Will Never Be Lost
11. DC Mini (feat. HERIOT)

And that’s not all from BOSTON MANOR! To support their new album, the band will embark on a headlining tour across the UK this September. Support for the tour comes from TROPHY EYES.

Tour dates are as follows:

18th Sept – Rock City, Nottingham, UK
19th Sept – O2 Ritz, Manchester, UK
20th Sept – Project House, Leeds, UK
22nd Sept – SWG3, Glasgow, UK
24th Sept – SWX, Bristol, UK
25th Sept – Engine Rooms, Southampton, UK
26th Sept – XOYO, Birmingham, UK
27th Sept – O2 Kentish Town Forum, London, UK