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Synthpop duo BATTERY OPERATED ORCHESTRA to release epic fifth album COMPULSORY GAMES on Halloween 2023
BOO’s fifth album is their most powerful work yet. Twelve thumping electronic pop tracks that lead us confidently from sweaty night club, to newsroom, to wild desert and to the dark flooded edge of town. Exploring our complicity with power and throwing a wry smile at the games we’re forced to play every day.
Sonically, it’s massive. By turns dark and deep, then in a flash, soaring and joyful. BOO’s battalion of analogue synthesizers generate a through-line of pulsing, forward momentum. The album twists through darkness and light, ending in a kind of redemptive apotheosis.
It’s a game of life. Let’s play.
The CD is handmade by the band themselves including a 24 page booklet, full of abstract and evocative linocut imagery that wouldn’t look out of place in a 1950s brutalist high-rise.
Pre-orders are live on Bandcamp on Friday October 6th and come with lead single Always On.
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Bandcamp Link (Private until Oct 6th): http://bit.ly/compulsorygames
BOO to release startling, meat-warping new music video ALWAYS ON ahead of album release on Halloween
Battery Operated Orchestra’s new music video is well-timed with the horror season. BOO has spiked their synthpop punch. Always On draws parallels between the preening mice of John Calhoun’s experiments in utopia and the effects of the insistent feed of social media.
BOO’s trademark analogue oomph is there along with Brigitte’s dead-pan to increasingly hysteric vocals. The catchy whoops make you want to groove but in the back of your mind is the niggling feeling they could be screams of terror. It all builds to a whirling climax you can’t help but be swept up in.
The single will be available to stream or to buy on Bandcamp with pre-orders of their fifth album Compulsory Games from Friday October 6th.
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Bandcamp Link (Private until Oct 6th): http://bit.ly/compulsorygames
BIO
SHORT VERSION
Brigitte Rose and Chris Black were magnetically drawn across the globe from Tasmania and Scotland to unite in London. Using their synths as a Ouija board, they brought BOO from the ether to radiate inter-dimensional indie synthpop.
LONG VERSION
Brigitte Rose and Chris Black were magnetically drawn across the globe from Tasmania and Scotland to unite in London. Using their synths as a Ouija board, they brought BOO from the ether to radiate inter-dimensional indie synthpop.
They migrated to the Sussex coast to create their debut album ‘Incomplete Until Broken‘. Reviewers across the land compared BOO to the likes of Stereolab, Crystal Castles and Yellow Magic Orchestra.
Their second album ‘Radiation’, a meditation on broadcasting, garnered further critical acclaim and built on their solid synthpop credentials. After the success of their third album, cold war pop classic ‘Snare’, 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 highly anticipated 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”.
BOO’s work encompasses every aspect of music production, from designing and making their CDs and videos to creating lighting and video art for their dazzling live shows.
In 2022, to celebrate ten years of BOO the band started a monthly livestream on YouTube. BOO-cast gives a glimpse behind the curtain as they create their fifth studio album, Compulsory Games, to be released on October 31st 2023.
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PRESS
“It’s electro pop so good it sends shivers down parts of the spine other bands cannot reach.”
– The Devil Has The Best Tuna
“Highly charged electronica with incredibly addictive melodies.”
– Louder Than War
“What Blondie would have sounded like if they had hung out in 1970s Sheffield rather than New York”
– Fourculture
“One will be hard-pressed to find a better representation of left-of-centre pop music from these shores”
– Sun 13
