Sea Blue Colour Vinyl

Tracklist:

1. Diamonds
2. Fragile
3. Always
4. Take Me Back
5. Low
6. Keep Moving
7. New York
8. Safe House
9. You Belong To Me
10. Dream
11. Promises

Produced and mixed in Los Angeles by Billy Bush, this collection of 11 tracks is the hi-fi soaring piece of work that truly delivers on the bands epic, signature sound. According to Matt Collar of All Music: The Boxer Rebellion have once again delivered a set of yearning rock anthems, full of searing romanticism and brooding atmosphere, and the release ranks as one of their best.

Working with producer Billy Bush, the band let go of their longstanding love of organic analogue recording in favour of a more adventurous, sonically crisp sound. The result is that Promises has a vibrant, wide-angle lens perfectly suited to the bands buoyant lyricism and guitar rock uplift. Tracks like the lead-off “Diamonds” and the sparkling “Keep on Moving” frame lead singer Nathan Nicholson’s gentle yet impassioned vocals with driving drum beats and layers of delayed and processed guitars that build slowly to each songs emotional climax.

Elsewhere, cuts like Always and “Take Me Back” mix percussive, electronic, dance-influenced beats with ’80s new wave-influenced melodies. These are songs that have a cinematic quality, each one feeling eerily as if youve heard it in a film. This immediate, imagistic quality means that the songs stick with you long after youve heard them, and as the title implies, with Promises, the Boxer Rebellion never let you down.