Feels Like The End by Boski is out now, and goes between hope and deep nostalgia. The familiar result is really moving. Review.
FEELS LIKE THE END – BOSKI
Boski wears his heart on his sleeve with his new album, Feels Like The End. Passion is burning what nostalgia can give it. However, nostalgia also produces more than all the records’ riffs can consume. The balance between the two makes it all, as deeply nostalgic as it is, incredibly dreamy and enthusiastic. Because, despite his anxiety, the artist goes forward, moves and creates, surprising us sometimes with gripping tracks. The opener giving its name to the full opus, Feels Like The End, really incarnates these subtilities. Catchy as it can be, its quiet pop-rock allure brings up something hugely moving.
For Annie Christ, Boski goes looking for sharper riffs as he keeps a similar melancholic pop-rock atmosphere. It’s there too on Boyband, with its hypnotic and highly relatable chorus, on Not Right Now, with its shimmering rhythms and darker vocals, and on Nothing Lasts, a true earworm. With slightly different kinds of textures, and with a result slightly more indie, The Rain creates the surprise and yet settles logically in the records’ narrative.
BOMBs gets a more abrupt start, but soon brings back the lighter enthusiasm in its rhythm. Then, All The Same and KnockingOnUrDoor hit. Because they’re both modern and vintage, perfectly balanced. To me, they are timeless, whereas I Never Did leans more towards classic indie for its ballad. Lastly, I Don’t Have to Win, rings and closes it all. Once more, there is that familiarity in the air that actually brings it all together, as the essence of both Boski and his new record Feels Like The End. If some aspects are to be amended, it would be a mistake to try and correct them. That’s where all its harmony comes from, and makes it a wonderful indie record that ought not to be missed!
