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10/10
Record Label: Big Rig Records
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are just one of those bands that make you feel like everything is going to be ok. The iconic Boston-bred skacore octet have been in business for nearly 25 years, cranking out festival floor fillers and sponsoring late night drinking sessions like it’s going out of style. This is a band who have been the soundtrack to many a teenage fumble and haven’t got any plans to stop now. Not content with taking you back to good times and sunny memories, the Bosstones still have plenty to say and are still making music that matters.
Opener ‘The Daylights’ is a classic slice of ska-punk that eases you in with crunchy guitars and a solid brass hook before tumbling into an almost unstoppable delivery of hit after hit. Perfect albums don’t exist? You haven’t heard this one. That after 25 years a band can still deliver to this standard is an absolute testament to the music and the musicians who make it, and the sunshine skank of ‘Sunday Afternoons On Wisdom Avenue’ takes you back to hazy summer hangouts while the pub brawl of ‘The Package Store Petition’ spits and stumbles like an old Irish man.
Big sing along choruses, classic ska core beats, vibrant horn lines – what more could you want? Get the circle pit started, I’m coming through.
- Top Tracks
- Sunday Afternoon On Wisdom Avenue
- The Magic Of Youth
Words: Jamie Otsa
The Magic Of Youth is out December 6th on SideOneDummy
