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The Pricey Boys: Blink Of An I

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The Dear Boys: Blink Of An I - Single ReviewThe Pricey Boys: Blink Of An I

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The Pricey Boys, Tony’s Fletcher and Web page,  self launch Blink Of An I, a put up punk blast lasting just below 140 seconds.

Blink Of An I is the third launch from The Pricey Boys and described as “a few previous punk/new wavers making a transAtlantic Buzzcocks-style transient euphoric anthem about ‘life passing by in a blink of a watch’ – however with a few youngsters enjoying on the track as properly to assist go the baton”. The couple of previous punks in query are Tony Fletcher (Kingston, New York) and Tony Web page (Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex), each previously of the early 80’s mod influenced power-pop quintet Apocalypse.

Fletcher explains, “In 2022, I began making music once more. Particularly, I acquired again right into a recording studio with my finest buddy for the primary time since 1984 when, proper getting ready to major-label failure, we stop the band that I had fashioned in school and which he had later joined. Thirty-eight years after that tearful evening, it was all smiles as we went into an upscale backyard shed in East Sussex, England, the place he lives, together with a rhythm part he’d assembled, and recorded two songs, one by every of us. That course of was a blast, and after we launched the songs on-line, as The Pricey Boys, the response was greater than we might have hoped for. A lot in order that we went again into the studio this spring and recorded two extra”

Whereas Fletcher would be the extra ‘acquainted’ title with readers of music publications, Tony Web page may be very equal on this, the power he brings to the observe being important. Web page has additionally been printed in his personal proper (or ought to that be write) with two volumes of Anoraky within the UK accessible which overview obscure new wave singles launched between 1977-1981. Web page has additionally remained extra lively of the pair musically, post-Apocalypse main The Ploy; The Mundaynes and The Spiffing Good Eggs. 

Blink Of An I used to be recorded in Kingston, New York, and Sidley, East Sussex. Fletcher writing the music and performed guitars, Web page writing the lyrics and on vocal duties. The band are accomplished by the “equally middle-aged Mark Lerner performed bass” the youthfulness is added by teenage ‘drummer extraordinaire’ Leo Beaumont with Fletchers son, Noel enjoying keyboards, contributed a scream of anguish, and blended the track.

As you will have guessed from the title, with its frenetic video shot by Jeni De Haart, the observe ponders the passing of time and the pace during which it does.  Clocking in at simply 136 seconds, it’s brief sufficient to lose your self in but in addition a jolt to remind the listener the significance of dwelling within the second. 

Earlier launch, Sure Males / Motion, is on the market through Bandcamp as a restricted version lathe-cut 7″ vinyl. 50% of proceeds from gross sales donated will equally be break up between Razom For Ukraine and Pals of the Earth

The Pricey Boys may be discovered on Bandcamp

Tony Fletcher can also be on Substack

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All phrases by Iain Key. See his creator profile right here or discover him on Twitter as @iainkey

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