BOOTBLACKS - "The Jealous Star"

BOOTBLACKS: NYC post-punks release new single "The Jealous Star" from upcoming Artoffact Records album "Thin Skies"

Bootblacks' new single "The Jealous Star" is now streaming on all major platforms.

"The Jealous Star" appears on the band's upcoming, fourth album Thin Skies, out October 9th on Artoffact Records.

Stream the single, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RTLVoxgFX0

Pre-order the album, here:
https://bootblacks.bandcamp.com/album/thin-skies

Vocalist Panther Almqvist says: "I was fascinated with this tradition of the wanderer's poem, like Ozymandias. I wanted to contribute my own version to this theme, the eternal traveler, the rolling stone. In the last couple of years I experienced that dichotomy, alone on the road, anxious at home. So 'The Jealous Star' is about the disorientation of travel. How it forces you to live outside of yourself and makes you appreciate the places and people you leave."

Thin Skies, Bootblacks' first album for Artoffact Records, zooms forward where its predecessor, Fragments, left off. The nine songs combine a driving, dancefloor pulse with soulful, melodic post-punk, yielding results that are positively anthemic.

Produced by Jason Corbett of Artoffact labelmates ACTORS, Thin Skies evokes scenes of dark days and reckless nights in the urban jungle – a marriage of post-punk emotion and clubland sweat. Panther Almqvist's brooding voice captivates as it veers from detached cool to deep vulnerability. Guitarist Alli Gorman's hard jangle "channels the trademark delay techniques of [U2's] The Edge," in the words of Post-Punk.com. Keyboardist Barrett Hiatt's arpeggiated synths are the life force pushing the songs relentlessly forward, as Larry Gorman bashes a mix of acoustic and electronic drums with power and perfection. Backing vocals come courtesy of Shannon Hemmett (ACTORS) and Kennedy Ashlyn (SRSQ, Them Are Us Too).

Bootblacks' hometown of New York City is integral to Thin Skies' sound. The band's name itself is said to be derived from novelist William Burroughs’ description of the dark underbelly of glitzy NYC. Almqvist states: "It's an energetic city and people have all the reasons in the world not to give you the time of day. I think our music has been shaped by that in many ways."

Photo by Katrin Albert