Bos Angeles - Days Of Youth / Beach Slalom

Bos Angeles might just be the coolest band name on the scene right now, wouldn’t you agree? That’s if you block the chemical reactors in your brain from making the obvious association to one particularly brooding and similarly-named Scotch band, that is. It’s nonetheless a name that screams from the height of coolness, just asking to be blogged about before a single embed has even been streamed.

And by golly have they been scribbled about lately – sending the Bandcamp-diggers and Soundcloud-rummagers into a jotting frenzy ever since ‘Beach Slalom’ – the second track from this AA-single release – first dropped unexpectedly into our laps (or should that be laptops) way back before the summer. They quickly emerged as the perfect tonic for those whose thirst was for a less angry Wavves or a gloomier The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, back when they still had a penchant for all things lo-fi.

Hailing from the less hip-sounding Boscombe (the ‘heroin capital of England’, according to an Urban Dictionary entry easily found through Googling the band’s very name – and one that reeks of shameless self-promotion), Bos Angeles do not let your expectations of their slickness down – their sound perfectly amalgamating blissful, pop-friendly melodies with naïve and youthful exuberance.

And now the Bournemouth-based trio have finally fulfilled all bloggers’ secret, guilty want and need for something concrete and tangible in their lives, releasing the aforementioned ‘Beach Slalom’ and other scribe favourite ‘Days Of Youth’ in physical form.

With two of the most introvertedly indulgent hooks you’re likely to hear through the entirety of this lonely wintry period (“Please don’t save me, I’d rather die,” “Always hating what I said, always hating what I said”), these couple of beauties are poised to invade the playlists of any house party you find yourself at with an unmanned iPod nearby and the toxic contents of a six-pack of beer already in your bloodstream.

With the band finally getting the wheels of their touring bus set in motion (closer to the truth would probably be to say “finally getting their Young Persons Railcards renewed”), and with an extended UK touring stint already underway, it’ll be great to finally experience these tracks in their full live glory and with a bit of applause attached to the endings.