BOYS LIKE GIRLS Announce First Album in 11 Years, SUNDAY AT FOXWOODS
Photo Credit: Matty Vogel Back in May, after 11 years since their release of Crazy World, Boys Like Girls came out of the shadows and drop the release of the single BLOOD AND SUGAR as well as a video type essay narrated by lead vocalist Martin Johnson via TikTok the video goes over what happened during their turbulent start to when the curtains drew on their last show 11 years ago. The pandemic was a trying time for a lot of people but it also drew people closer together, Johnson said song ideas started becoming actual recorded music that would later turn into the three singles and soon a full length album SUNDAY AT FOXWOODS.
“I’m not really a campfire style singer, but on my third or fourth date with my now wife she asked me to play her a song. I don’t know why, but I picked up the guitar and started playing ‘CRY’ in front of someone for the first time. A crazy thing happened…I felt the song in the way I had always wanted to. I meant the words I was singing…and I meant them for her. To me, every song is a living, breathing thing. Some are born before their time. Some are just supposed to make you feel good, some have great purpose. Sometimes when you write, you’re telling a real story, but sometimes it’s a made up one. Sometimes the words just sound good and you figure it out later. This one took years to reveal itself. My hope is that ‘CRY’ finds its purpose and meaning to the listener a bit quicker than it took for me. More importantly, my hope is that it finds the ears of those who need it. A couple weeks ago Beef and I were sitting in my truck outside the studio, critically listening to mixes of our first album together in a dozen years. At the end of “CRY,” I looked to the passenger seat and the toughest man I know had tears running down his face and into his beard. We hugged and cried together in the car, two old friends still making music together, still pushing each other to be better musicians and men 20 years after we met in 2003. Even if this one is just for us, I know in my heart that it was worth waiting until the time was right. And after 10 years of waiting, I’m finally ready to sing it, and we’re finally ready to share it with you. The time is right.”
Catch the band on their first tour back with support from State Champs, Four Year Strong, 3OH!3, The Summer Set, The Ready Set, LoLo, Every Avenue, SayWeCanFly and Max Bemis
SUNDAY AT FOXWOODS is out everywhere October 20th
