I prefer post-punk to punk, always did, always will. Controversial? Well, not really. The main reason is that today’s bands inspired by punk seem to create more of the same, music that sounds not too different from what was pioneered in the first place. Post-punk, however, has found its way into every corner of the musical map, and those influenced by it have picked up its torch and carried on writing its story. It is the difference between revolution and evolution! Revolution might make the headlines, but evolution is how the world moves forward, especially the music world.
“City Boy,” the second single from Boxing Club, is definitely part of that continuing story, of post-punk and a not-insignificant part of the tale, too. Running on a brooding, Bauhausian bassline and a darkwave-infused, clockwork beat, it soon explodes into a squalling, snarling storm of guitars, raw-edged and raging.
And it is between these sky-searing sonic salvos and more understated urges that the song ebbs and flows to find its shape, acknowledging the style of those heady times, but also more recent purveyors of that sound, such as Idles and Fontaines D.C.
As the band waxes lyrical about trying to survive in a world that was never meant for someone like you, this is not so much a nod to the past, more a logical extension of some of its finest moments.
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