BOY HARSHER: share new video for "Come Closer" & announce European festival datesAlbum 'Careful' out now on Nude Club RecordsOFFICIAL PRESS RELEASENEWS PROVIDED BY Stereo Sanctity BOY HARSHER Photo credit: Nedda Afsari "This is darkly delicious pop--with no smiling." - The Wire "Boy Harsher capture the bittersweet feeling of being young, in love and on the road." - Resident Advisor "It’s easy to imagine these tracks playing well to the goth clubs of the world, but it’s chiseled and streamlined in a way that suggests it might also slip into the cracks of a techno set. That in-betweenness is what makes Boy Harsher’s work so interesting." - Pitchfork "These 10 tracks contain a dark power, an atavistic pull. Give in to their bad romance." - **** NME "There's a sense of rejuvenated joy... Offering the pair's own doomy electronic voyage into the uncertainties of the future." - 8/10, Uncut “Boy Harsher’s dysfunction fuels a sound world of sexual tension and emotional upheaval.” - Electronic Sound “There’s a lot of EBM around at the moment, but not much as steamy as this.” - Mixmag “Superb... Careful is a glorious coming-out.” - **** Q “Perfectly produced with Muller’s minimal equipment, the sound is crisp and clear…an album as enthralling to turn into a cult classic.” - 8/10, Loud and Quiet Following a sold out European tour, including an upgraded date at London's 1250-capacity Heaven, Massachusetts duo BOY HARSHER have shared a new video & announced new European festival dates. The video accompanies the steamy, hedonistic club track "Come Closer", taken from the band's new album 'Careful' which was released on the band's own label Nude Club Records back in February. It was directed by Muted Widows (Widow Brothers + Nedda Afsari) who commented: "This is the first time we all (Michael R. Zumaya, Michael E Linn, and Nedda Afsari) collaborated on a project from start to finish, and Boy Harsher couldn't be a more perfect fit for us as our new collective Muted Widows. For Come Closer, we explored duality. There are things within us that feel so familiar and, conversely, so different. At the end, both are integral parts of yourself. Our amazing crew and exceptional talent really came together to create something we're extremely proud of. Furthermore, we're extremely flattered to create the visuals for a stellar track." Watch the video for "Come Closer": https:// With ‘Careful’, Boy Harsher's Jae Matthews and Augustus Muller use the medium of minimal electronics to create a compelling narrative of a deteriorating family and the reaction to run away from it. The record plots its time between songs that study the trauma embedded within loss, and the compulsion to flee. If their previous releases, EP ‘Lesser Man’ (various pressings on Soft Science/Night People/Aufnahme + Wiedergabe/Nude Club) and LP ‘Yr Body is Nothing’ (various pressings on DKA Records/Nude Club) narrated the pain and desperation that follows after something goes awry, then this LP, ‘Careful’, describes what loves gives you: fear and joy, tenderness and pain. For Boy Harsher, ‘Careful’ attempts to detail the enveloping trauma of loss combined with the fantasy of escape. The band expands upon the fine-tuned production developed in their last EP ‘Country Girl’ (Ascetic House), but with plenty of nods to the fast tempo and grittiness of ‘Lesser Man’. 'Careful' is available here: https:// The band are currently coming to the end of an extensive US tour, before returning to Europe for festival appearances this summer. Details below and more dates to be announced soon. Boy Harsher live dates: ‘Careful’ track list:
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