NEW MUSIC REVIEW: BOIDS - 'BOIDS'
By Simon Marshall (07/09/2024)
LISTEN TO BOIDS - BOIDS
REVIEW: BOIDS - BOIDS
Stomp Records (release June 28, 2024)
Catch Boids July 11th in Toronto at Bovine Sex Club or July 13th in Hamilton at Vertagogo
REVIEW: BOIDS - BOIDS
If you haven’t heard of BOIDS yet, you’re living under a rock - a space rock that is - and that’s perhaps exactly where BOIDS wants you. Behold one of the most far out there bands to frequent the stage.
When a global pandemic disrupted the group’s plans to tour their last album, “Quel Drag”, BOIDS took a different approach. They hunkered down in a basement storage bunker behind a boiler room in downtown Montreal, and began writing their fourth and most current album for Stomp Records, “BOIDS”.
“BOIDS” embodies such a wide variety of stylistic origins that it is virtually impossible for the listener to put their thumb on a specific genre. The group dives deep into the unknown on this album and it is presented with their biggest production value yet. Further, the album is littered with sound effects and other oddities (assuming quaking rubber duckies are playing the outro on Make your own fun). The instruments are nicely separated in the mix allowing the trio to shine and essentially do more with less.
Fuzzy bass sounds are scattered about courtesy of bassist/vocalist Andy McAdam where the listener is captivated by his regular scampering of the fretboard (see Make your own fun). The bass is upfront in the mix, a trademark relatable to fans of classic punk (see Perfect day).
Drummer Mike Gasselsdorfer colours outside the lines with memorable beats and fill patterns throughout. This is especially the case on Bombs for Peace, SOS and Sunday People.
On the album’s masterpiece, Leather Jacket, guitarist/vocalist Patrizio McLelland prescribes the audience a lead guitar riff so intoxicating that I may have developed a dependancy upon hearing it. On this one the group runs rife at mediocrity in a stale music scene - “It’s all going down the drain, one song at a time and it all sounds the same”. Flashbacks from Green Day side project, The Network, come to mind upon listening.
Up until now the group has been celebrated in the new wave/pop-punk world. That reach may now be extended further with the release of “BOIDS” and the group back on the road.
Recommended listen: Leather Jacket, Go Slow, Make your own fun
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
SIMON MARSHALL
Simon Marshall is a Project Manager who resides in Hamilton, Ontario with his wife and two daughters. He plays drums in the punk band Adelledaand is actively involved in the Southern Ontario music scene.
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