Boston Manor Return & Drop "Container"
PHOTO CREDIT: Megan Doherty
Today, UK based rock band Boston Manor have returned with their first new single of 2024, “Container.” Full of thrust and intention, this single is rich with depth and groove, offering an early signpost to where their sound is taking them next. From parallel universes to personal growth, vivid dreamscapes to raw grief.
"'Container' explores the idea of second chances, the panic that sets in knowing you need to change your world before it's too late, and you get swallowed up and lost forever. It's about the stagnancy of life creeping up on you and how that can bring about change."
- Lead singer Henry Cox says,
Change is a color that Boston Manor wear well, and "Container" signals the first step in a bold and inspiring new journey. There's a brightness to "Container" that feels like purposeful about-turn from the darkness of [2022 album] Datura.
Working with long-time producer Larry Hibbitt, alongside engineer Alex O'Donovan, the band switched recording from London to the leafier pastures of the home counties.
"Because Larry lives out in the countryside now, it was a way different environment and way different experience recording this time."
- lead guitarist Mike Cunniff remembers.
As a band known for using their music to make bigger statements about society, "Container" is by contrast a look inwards, as they harness the uplifting power of their music and the communion it creates.
"I think it's really important to write something that people can be immersed in and find some sort of solace in."
- Cox concludes
