The new self-titled BOY CRISIS album drops the end of this month on B-Unique… Here’s what the New York Times had to say about it in their recent review…
“Highly licensable” probably isn’t the praise Boy Crisis has been striving for, but there it was, springing from the mouth of Alexandra Patsavas, the music supervisor behind “Gossip Girl” and “Grey’s Anatomy,” in a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly. But what could be sold by Boy Crisis, a Brooklyn-via-Wesleyan band (what group isn’t these days?) whose spastically seductive debut album “Tulipomania” (B-Unique), due this month, is teeming with joke-R&B. (Boy Crisis shares a member, Victor Vazquez, with hip-hop ironists du jour Das Racist.) Chromeo got here first, and better, and more sincerely, but Boy Crisis has honed its electro-soul schtick with nods to Prince, hip-hop and literature. Its MySpace page features two video clips for “Dressed to Digress,” one of its sharper songs. In one clip the group stands clustered tight, as if in a Sears portrait studio, and harmonizes glee-club-style. In the other, a young woman swoons over teen-mag tear sheets of the band taped to her walls. Images of Mr. Vazquez festoon her bedsheets. Soon the band members materialize, and at the moment of seduction it becomes clear: if there’s a mumblecore John Hughes making films, this should be the soundtrack.
And here’s their new video for the single “The Fountain of Youth”….
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