“Melancholic synthpop with a polished atmosphere that never loses it’s sense of human scale.”

– Bandcamp Essential Releases on Snare

BOO are Brigitte Rose and Chris Black. Born in Tasmania and Scotland respectively and united by their love of synthesizers and perfect three minute pop songs, they met in a dank practice room in Kings Cross London in 2010, and have been making “highly charged electronica with incredibly addictive melodies” (Louder Than War) ever since.

BOO’s work encompasses every aspect of music production, from building a home studio to designing and making their CDs by hand, directing and shooting music videos to creating lighting and video art for their visceral live shows. Their fans are known as BOOsters and they meet from all over the world via a monthly livestream called BOOcast.

BOO migrated to Brighton to create their debut album ‘Incomplete Until Broken‘. Described as “pulsating pumping electronica with cold, clear soothing vocals, recalling Ladytron” by High Violet. Reviewers across the land compared BOO to the likes of Stereolab, Crystal Castles and Yellow Magic Orchestra. 

Their second album ‘Radiation’ garnered further critical acclaim and built on their solid synthpop credentials. After the success of their third album ‘Snare’ (a Bandcamp Essential Release), they released a limited edition remix album featuring work from contemporaries Finlay Shakespeare, midierror, Matt Culpin (Dancing with Ruby, Northern Kind) and more. 

Recorded before and during lockdown, their fourth studio album ‘Yesterday Tomorrow and You’ was written as a survival handbook for the future in four chapters. Louder Than War dubbed it “the pinnacle of their career to date”.

In 2022, to celebrate ten years of BOO, the band started a monthly livestream called ‘BOO-cast‘ documenting progress on their fifth studio album Compulsory Games, which became #45 in Louder Than War’s albums of the year, exclaiming it “restores faith in British synth-pop.” The album was written, recorded and completed in full view of their monthly viewers of BOOcast, where they shared writing and production techniques as well as doing live performances of songs and reviewing the synthesizers they used on the album.

In 2024 they released This Is Not The End, a largely instrumental collection of previously unreleased tracks from EPs which were only available to BOO’s subscribers, known affectionately as “the BOOsters”.