Here’s a riddle for you… which band is sometimes a large group of people and at other times a solo endeavour and combines folk, garage, punk, blues and disco and is located in Berlin as well as New York and has people from all over the world contributing parts to their third album? The answer is The Boggs, the brainchild of Jason Friedman. One could easily fill an entire page about the project and how it all works both on- and offstage or about all of the stuff Friedman does next to the band.
And honestly, it would probably more interesting than the album itself. Because while “Little Windows” – one of the better songs on here – reminds me of Polyphonic Spree or I Am Barcelona, things all too often sound like a whole lot of layers heaped together rather than like a coherent song. And while there are a lot of cool ideas to be found on “Forts”, it’s not always easy to spot them.
For the more adventurous listeners only I’m afraid!
Score: 6 out of 10
http://www.tangleduprecordings.co.uk
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