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Bootblacks - Paradise
The Bootblacks 2025 album "Paradise" marks a departure from the manic percussion and guitar-driven energy of the artist’s angular post-punk roots to a more electronic and immersive soundscape.
"Paradise" is an audacious ode to contradiction: lush yet raw, melancholic yet euphoric, polished yet pulsing with grit, where beauty and despair coexist. The album continues their exploration of the 1980’s musical landscape with melancholic lyrics, shimmering guitar riffs, lush synths, sultry saxophones and bass-driven soundscapes. "Paradise" is an audacious ode to contradiction: lush yet raw, melancholic yet euphoric, polished yet pulsing with grit, where beauty and despair coexist. Since their formation, Bootblacks have released several critically acclaimed albums, including "Veins" (2016), "Fragments" (2018), and "Thin Skies" (2020). The band has also toured extensively throughout North America and Europe, performing at renowned venues and festivals.
Album releases on  CD format limited edition vinyl as well as on all major digital Bandcamp.

Tracklist:
01 Forbidden Flames 
02 Only You (feat. Chris Vrenna & Benjamin Harrison) 
03 Paradise 
04 Can You feel it? (Anymore) 
05 Wilderness
06 When You want 
07 Leipzig (feat. Oskar Carls [Viagra Boys]) 
08 Fade away 
09 Melt
Author: Panic
Translator: Panic
Source: https://www.bootblacks.net/ / 2025-06-12 / News


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