Exits

Artist: Boxer Rebellion
Label: Umvd Import
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 602498697979
EAN: 0602498697979
ASIN: B0007WVA6Y

Release Date: 2005-05-05

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Tracks:

Flight
All You Do Is Talk
We Have This Place Surrounded
Watermelon
New Heavy
World Without End
Never Knowing How or Why
Lay Me Down
Cowboys & Enegines
Absentee

Album Description

Fronted by Tennessee born vocalist Nathan Nicholson, London-based four-piece Boxer Rebellion is a blend of alt-rock infused with acoustic rhythems. This self titled album features 10 tracks including the first single 'All You Do Is Talk'. Mercury. 2005.

Album Details

2005 Debut Album from the Band Found by Alan Mcgee (Of Creation Records/Oasis Fame) for his Poptones Label. Nme Describes them as a "Pathological Noise-rush Warfare Not Heard Since the Old School Mentalism of Richard Ashcroft". The Boxer Rebellion Exist Somewhere Between the Battleground-indie of Mogwai and Interpol and the Beautiful Restraint of Elbow. They have the Ability Both to Float Melodically and Belt You Mercilessly with Venomous Bass-lines and Torturous Riffs.

Customer Reviews:

A new British sound.......2005-06-08

Coldplay is dead, and the Boxer Rebellion killed it.

Combining the bombast of early Oasis, the shimmering guitars of Six by Seven and Swervdriver and an American predilection for noise, the Boxer Rebellion live up to their name on this album by being punchy (forgive the pun) and peeling away from the fey sound of the British Isles (Coldplay, Travis, Belle and Sebastian, Embrace).

"Flight" and "All You Do is Talk" layer guitars, bass and electronics on top of each other until the songs threaten to topple over completely. That they don't is a tremendous credit to the band. "Flight"s guitars wash onto shore and build a wall of shimmering sound, but the leaping bass is the key. "All You Do is Talk" takes the same formula and adds a little bit of shambolic jangle to come up with an instant classic. "The New Heavy" sounds *exactly* like something Six by Seven might do, but I'm not complaining. The band slows down for a moment on "We Have This Place Surrounded," showing a calmer, more atmospheric side that suits it well.

To be sure there are moments of Coldplay-like emoting here ("Lay Me Down," "The Absentee") but the band never dips into the woe-is-me-alone begging that Coldplay has fallen in love with. "Lay Me Down" and "The Absentee" both stretch over the course of five minutes and each builds steadily into a cathartic apex.

Boxer Rebellion main man and U.S. ex-pat Nathan Nicholson should be praised for fleeing the States and taking America's music ethos across the pond to the stale British scene.

Is EXITS merely the name of the album or the band's statement of purpose? Is it just a title or are the quartet heading to the airport and boarding a plane for a US scene that will embrace it? Who knows, but this album will give you something great to listen to while the band decides.

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