BOA MORTE

Boa Morte formed in Cork, Ireland in 1998, rising from the dust of a couple of ragged but respected indie bands. Their debut album, 'Soon It Will Come Time To Face The World Outside (2002), was released to widespread critical acclaim. Those impressed by the record included Uncut, Mojo, Q Magazine and John Peel. The band toured throughout Ireland and the UK playing with the likes of Teenage Fanclub, Howe Gelb and Calexico.

Boa Morte’s second album, “The Dial Waltz” (2009) followed a similar aesthetic and was equally well-received, Q magazine hailing the record as a “supremely elegant sound-track for staring into your half-empty pint.” 

On their latest release, ‘The Total Space’ Boa Morte edge deeper into the woods of ambient, drone and synthesised sound with little to guide them but their innate melodic compass and instinct for unorthodox song. Daniel Presley, the perma-nomadic Texan producer, flew in to safeguard the Boa Morte fundamentals: emotive yet unsentimental vocals; a disquieting ease with space and silence; percussive interventions on drum-shell, tom-rim and cymbal-cup; an aversion to rhythm guitar; harmonies that add rather than dilute personality, and a bloody-minded patience when it comes to pacing.