BOSTON MANOR release new album 'Sundiver' via SharpTone Records | UK instore tour begins tonight + UK headline tour through Sept

BOSTON MANOR release new album Sundiver

Out now via SharpTone Records

+ Pop up store opens today in London

+ UK instore tour begins this weekend

+ UK headline tour dates through September

Praise for new album Sundiver

"Hot and heavy and absolutely stunning, it’s a whole new territory for Boston Manor." - Dork ★★★★

“They’ve never sounded as cohesive, as unique and as stubbornly characterful as they do on Sundiver… there’s no route map Boston Manor can’t navigate.” – Kerrang! ★★★★

“It feels like the product of a band who are confident in their identity and are genuinely enjoying exploring their creativity together.” – The Arts Desk ★★★★

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BOSTON MANOR have released their new acclaimed, ambitious new album Sundiver and today and have already begun celebrating its release with a week of exciting UK-wide events.

Hear Sundiver in full HERE

Last night, the band hosted a sold-out 'Pitch Black Playback' fan event at London's Soho Hotel, allowing the band's biggest fans an early listen to the new album in a uniquely immersive environment. Today the band launches their own pop up store at London's Hackney Gallery which will house exclusive limited edition vinyl and merch, a photography exhibition showcasing album Nick Barkworth's (responsible for the Sundiver cover image) work, a band signing plus Dark Arts coffee. This is all ahead of the band undertaking a week-long run of UK instore performances and signings that begin this weekend. Their UK headline tour begins later in September.

Lead singer Henry Cox says of the album: "Sundiver is the culmination of two years work and four years of planning. Going into the pandemic we knew our next record would be a double album released in two parts, the first a short shadowy-noiry electronic record set over one night and the second a sprawling rock record that documents the following day. Both albums are products of their environments, we made Datura in the dead of winter in a windowless studio complex that mostly just produced techno, we’d enter before the sun rose and leave long after it set, basically never seeing sunlight. We made Sundiver in Welwyn Garden City over two summers, we barbecued every day & would walk across the road to a meadow and just take naps in the sunshine when we weren’t recording.

We’ve essentially been working on this album and building up to it since the pandemic. We were obsessed with trying to make a record that felt like blistering sunshine, or that wavy/hazy horizon you get when the pavement is super hot, but we didn’t want it to sound “happy” or “major key”. Sundiver is by far Boston Manor’s best and most ambitious record to date, and we couldn’t be happier with it, I really hope our fans love it as much as we do."

Boston Manor are also today spotlighting new song 'Dissolve' from the album, of which Cox says: "One of the earlier tracks we wrote for the record, it came together super organically, and basically started and ended with that bassline. We wanted to make something super groove based and danceable, like something off a Queens of the Stone Age or an Arctic Monkeys record, a proper driving tune. It’s about never saying never and always leaving the door to change ajar."

Hear 'Dissolve' below.

More about new album Sundiver

“Could you please open that window, let the new world in.” The sage simplicity of Sundiver’s opening lyrics says it all. Boston Manor front man Henry Cox is opening the next chapter of a story that began with 2022 album Datura. That record opened with the lines, “Do me a favour, close that window, keep the heating in, there's a fire in the car park, I see it smouldering.” Sundiver, then, is the yin to Datura’s yang. Coming out on September 6th via SharpTone Records, Sundiver is Boston Manor’s fifth album and one that represents a glimmering dawn for the Blackpool five-piece. Grown from a seedbed of optimism and sobriety, the LP celebrates new beginnings, second chances and rebirth. With two members recently stepping into fatherhood, hope is baked into every note.

Like anything worth doing though, that hope has been hard-won. On Sundiver, change doesn’t just happen it is willed into existence, forged in the flame of grief and bent into shape with a hammer blow of positivity. Working with long-time producer Larry Hibbitt, alongside engineer Alex O’Donovan, the band switched recording from London to the leafier pastures of the home counties. There's a brightness searching to get out of Sundiver that feels like a purposeful about-turn from the darkness of [2022 album] Datura.

This year’s pair of earlier single releases explored second chances (‘Container’) and ‘What If?’ scenarios (‘Sliding Doors’), bringing with them a refreshed mindset, the band clearly ready to create something immersive, embracing the unpredictable, glorious, devastating nature of life as a human being. Lyrics foxtrot from parallel universes to personal growth, vivid dreamscapes to raw grief. Individually they’re single strokes full of meaning and magic. Together they’re a landscape.

Lead singer Henry Cox comments on the new album: "Sundiver is the culmination of two years work and four years of planning. Going into the pandemic we knew our next record would be a double album released in two parts, the first a short shadowy-noiry electronic record set over one night and the second a sprawling rock record that documents the following day. Both albums are products of their environments, we made Datura in the dead of winter in a windowless studio complex that mostly just produced techno, we’d enter before the sun rose and leave long after it set, basically never seeing sunlight. We made Sundiver in Welwyn Garden City over two summers, we barbecued every day & would walk across the road to a meadow and just take naps in the sunshine when we weren’t recording.

We’ve essentially been working on this album and building up to it since the pandemic. We were obsessed with trying to make a record that felt like blistering sunshine, or that wavy/hazy horizon you get when the pavement is super hot, but we didn’t want it to sound “happy” or “major key”. Sundiver is by far Boston Manor’s best and most ambitious record to date, and we couldn’t be happier with it, I really hope our fans love it as much as we do."

Boston Manor 2024 live dates
Tickets on sale here

September instore performances and signings
Tickets on sale here

07th Sept - Resident, Brighton, UK (Acoustic performance + signing)
08th Sept - Rough Trade, Bristol, UK (Full band + signing)
09th Sept - Key Club w/ Crash Records, Leeds, UK (Full band + signing)
10th Sept - HMV, Birmingham, UK (Full band + signing)
11th Sept - Rough Trade, Liverpool, UK (Full band + signing)
12th Sept, Bootleg Social, Blackpool, UK (Full band + signing)

September UK headline tour dates

18th Sept - Rock City, Nottingham, UK
19th Sept - O2 Ritz, Manchester, UK
20th Sept - Project House, Leeds, UK - SOLD OUT
22nd Sept - SWG3, Glasgow, UK
24th Sept - SWX, Bristol, UK
25th Sept - Engine Rooms, Southampton, UK
26th Sept - XOYO, Birmingham, UK
27th Sept - O2 Kentish Town Forum, London, UK

November EU headline tour dates

18th Nov - Gruenspan, Hamburg, DE
19th Nov - Essigfabrik, Cologne, DE
20th Nov - Substage, Karlsruhe, DE
22nd Nov - Hirsch, Nuremberg, DE
23rd Nov - Bei Chez Heinz, Hannover, DE
25th Nov - Kesselhaus, Berlin, DE
26th Nov - Freiheitshalle, Munich, DE
28th Nov - Dynamo, Eindhoven, DE
30th Nov - Bellevilloise, Paris, FR
01st Dec - De Casino, Sint-Niklaas, BE

Boston Manor - Sundiver album tracklisting

1. Datura (Dawn)
2. Container
3. Sliding Doors
4. HEAT ME UP
5. Horses In A Dream
6. Morning Star
7. Why I Sleep
8. Fornix
9. Dissolve
10. What Is Taken, Will Never Be Lost
11. DC Mini (feat. Heriot)

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