Name: Eight
Brand: The Boo Radleys

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

BOOSTR7CDX

Colour

Colour details

Discogs ID

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Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

With Bonus CD of 11 Tracks of Extended Versions, Full Versions, Piano Versions Live etc.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-06-09

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5053760101215

Total Cap

CDx2

BOOSTR7LP

Transparent Red

[r27344091]

Extended format: No

2023-09-30

5053760101222

Red LP

BOOSTR7CD

5053760101208

Artist

The Boo Radleys

Genre GB

Indie Pop / Shoegaze

Label GB

Boostr

The Boo Radleys are an English alternative rock band that was founded in Wallasey, Merseyside, England in 1988. Although they disbanded in 1999, the group recently reunited in 2020 without original member Martin Carr.

Throughout their career, The Boo Radleys underwent a musical transformation, transitioning from nutty noise merchants to shoegazing dreampoppers and eventually becoming classic pop thoroughbreds who achieved Top 40 success in the UK. Despite their European stardom, the band never managed to break into the US music scene.

The current lineup of The Boo Radleys consists of Rob Cieka on drums, Simon "Sice" Rowbottom on vocals and guitar, and Timothy Brown on bass, guitar, and keyboards. Former members include Martin Carr (guitar, vocals, keyboards), Rob Harrison (drums), and Steve Hewitt (drums).

Republic Of Music Offers

The Boo Radleys release a brand-new studio album, as well as the 30th Anniversary reissue of their lauded, landmark 1993 album, Giant Steps. Given encouragement by the tremendous reception of last year’s live return and first album in more than two decades, the three-piece return quickly to release Seeker, the first cut from June’s new long-player, Eight.

Marking perhaps their busiest ever year in 2023, the band makes up for lost time having been missing from the musical map since 1998 prior to reforming in 2021 and releasing their seventh album, Keep On With Falling, last March. Keen to celebrate the past as well as the present, the announcement that Giant Steps, the Creation Records album that, for many, cemented their legacy as one of Britain’s greatest yet unsung bands will delight fans keen to complete their collections.

Cherished, critically acclaimed and confrontational in its genre-ambiguity, the album is released on Vinyl and CD.

Bringing their story to the present, The Boo Radleys new single, Seeker, introduces the band’s eighth album, released on the band’s own Boostr label. Where last year’s album, joyful in tone yet brooding with heavyweight lyrical themes, came together as an exploration of the isolated ideas of each member, Eight is, according to vocalist and co-songwriter, Sice formed of songs recorded “purposefully to appear together on an album.” Before adding, “There is also a greater depth of integration, which means that it’s more difficult to tell which member of the band the song originated with.”

Reflecting on Seeker, the new album’s opening track, written about leaning on those we trust to share life’s highs and lows, bassist and co-songwriter, Tim Brown says: “This song started out as a three-chord synth pop tune and mutated into a brassy bop courtesy of trumpeter, Nick Etwell. The electric guitar flourishes were added by Louis Smith before Sice added layers of backing vocals which help drive the song along and bring it to its joyful conclusion.”

Eight

Music GB

Discover Eight by The Boo Radleys. A brand-new studio album and 30th Anniversary reissue of their landmark album, Giant Steps. Available on Vinyl and CD from Boostr label.