Boys Like Girls have announced their first album in 11 years, Sunday At Foxwoods, due Oct. 20 via Fearless/Concord, and judging by the lead singles, it sounds like a return to — and a fresh update on — their trademark pop-rock sound, following the country-tinged departure they made on 2012’s Crazy World. We’ve teamed with the band on an exclusive ruby vinyl variant, limited to just 500 copies. Preorder yours from the AP Shop while they last! Check out a mock-up of the variant below.
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Boys Like Girls previously released three songs from the album — “The Outside,” “Language,” and “Blood and Sugar” — and today they’ve shared a fourth single, “Cry.” Speaking about it, vocalist Martin Johnson says:
I’m not really a campfire style singer, but on my third or fourth date with my now wife she asked me to play her a song. I don’t know why, but I picked up the guitar and started playing ‘CRY’ in front of someone for the first time. A crazy thing happened…I felt the song in the way I had always wanted to. I meant the words I was singing…and I meant them for her. To me, every song is a living, breathing thing. Some are born before their time. Some are just supposed to make you feel good, some have great purpose. Sometimes when you write, you’re telling a real story, but sometimes it’s a made up one. Sometimes the words just sound good and you figure it out later. This one took years to reveal itself.
My hope is that ‘CRY’ finds its purpose and meaning to the listener a bit quicker than it took for me. More importantly, my hope is that it finds the ears of those who need it. A couple weeks ago Beef and I were sitting in my truck outside the studio, critically listening to mixes of our first album together in a dozen years. At the end of “CRY,” I looked to the passenger seat and the toughest man I know had tears running down his face and into his beard. We hugged and cried together in the car, two old friends still making music together, still pushing each other to be better musicians and men 20 years after we met in 2003. Even if this one is just for us, I know in my heart that it was worth waiting until the time was right. And after 10 years of waiting, I’m finally ready to sing it, and we’re finally ready to share it with you. The time is right.
Listen to all four currently released singles below.
Boys Like Girls also have an upcoming tour, including support varying by date from State Champs, Four Year Strong, the Summer Set, 3OH!3, LOLO, the Ready Set, Say Anything’s Max Bemis, and more. See all dates on the tour poster below.
Sunday At Foxwoods tracklist
1. “Sunday At Foxwoods”
2. “The Outside”
3. “Language”
4. “Blood And Sugar”
5. “New Love”
6. “Miracle”
7. “Cry”
8. “Monday Morning”
9. “Physical”
10. “Hourglass”
11. “Story Of A Lifetime”
12. “Brooklyn State Of Mind”
13. “Lost In Wonderland”
