BATTERY OPERATED ORCHESTRA twist sleek synthpop into something darkly playful on their new track RESPONSIBLE ADULT (Out Feb 6th)
BOO proudly present Responsible Adult, the first single from their forthcoming seventh studio album Sea Views Soft Rains, to be released in 2026.
After the success of 2023’s album Compulsory Games (number 45 in Louder Than War’s Top 100 Albums of the Year) BOO, have been navigating the “interesting times” we all live in: surviving losses, celebrating triumphs, and relocating to a new home by the sea to complete the writing and recording of the last 2 years. Somewhere between the synthetic cool of early Human League and the jagged wit of Devo, Responsible Adult stands as the first track born from this evolutionary moment.
Their self-directed video will premiere on BOO’s monthly YouTube livestream (a.k.a. BOO-cast) from 7pm, Monday 2nd February, before wider release on Friday 5th. It will be available to purchase from Bandcamp or stream via most platforms, along with a remix by the acclaimed Discothéque’s Andy Kubiszewski (Stabbing Westward, The The, Exotic Birds) and an instrumental B-side.
Listen (private until release): Soundcloud | Bandcamp
Watch (unlisted until release): YouTube
Collected Media on Google Drive
Music video (private until February 5th)
BIO
SHORT VERSION
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.
LONG VERSION
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.
They 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”.
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 visceral live shows. Their music has been supported by BBC radio, WFMU and many other fine stations across the world.
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PRESS
“Husband and wife team Battery Operated Orchestra make pumping 8–bit electronica — sounds like a salacious headline in a crap newspaper, but is in fact awesome.”
– Fresh On The Net
“Melancholic synthpop with a polished atmosphere that never loses its sense of human scale.”
– Bandcamp Essential Releases
“One will be hard-pressed to find a better representation of left-of-centre pop music from these shores”
– Sun 13
“What Blondie would have sounded like if they had hung out in 1970s Sheffield rather than New York”
– Fourculture
