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01. The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness - As the Day Begins
02. The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness - Look Back
03. The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness - Isolation (feat. Mary Lou Lord)
04. The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness - In the Right
05. The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness - The Stars Go Round
06. The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness - Open Up the Box
07. The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness - Turning Red
08. The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness - Old Pictures of Ourselves
09. The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness - Out of Time
10. The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness - Old Ways
ARTIST
TITLE
The Third Wave Of...
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
BBI 029LP BBI 029LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
9/9/2022

The third record by The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness contains ten songs (how not?) and it doesn't last half an hour (why more?). The guitars jangle from minute 0 (delicious "As the Day Begins"). This jangle is complemented by distorted guitars and power pop airs in songs like "Look Back" (a hit with one foot in the romantic power pop of The Keys, The Toms, The Records, the Flamin' Groovies of the Shake Some Action era (1976) and another chasing the vibes of The Cars, Weezer and even The New Pornographers), "In the Right" (the best Graham Parker or Joe Jackson must be named here, and pay close attention to the dub arrangement that splits the song in two) or the most badass "Out of Time", which is as if Weezer, Dinosaur Jr., and Nada Surf were 20 years old and played together. There is a milestone on this album and that is that Mary Lou Lord sings a duet with Andrew throughout the song "Isolation", a beautiful mid-tempo jangle a la The Bevis Frond that takes the Boys to a new dimension. Mary Lou Lord was a colleague of Elliott Smith and Kurt Cobain, a myth of the not-so-underground American music and a unique voice that should have never stopped being the protagonist. "The Stars Go Round", "Open Up the Box", and "Old Ways" are three wonderful compositions linked to the precious indie pop of Teenage Fanclub, Velvet Crush, or The Primary 5. A novelty is the use of the piano on this album, à la E Street Band, à la Attractions, in energetic and splendid songs like "Old Pictures of Ourselves" and "Turning Red". The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness is a duo formed by Andrew Taylor (Edinburgh), a member of the cult band Dropkick and Gonzalo Marcos (Madrid), from a Spanish indie pop group El Palacio de Linares.