An electro-pop cloudburst from The Slow Readers Club - BOY SO BLUE

Slow Readers Club smother cautionary tales of hollow hedonism with an electro-pop cloudburst on new single…
 
Boy So Blue

With a run of intimate album launch shows and a huge hometown date with Elbow to come, Manchester’s Slow Readers Club make a sprinting start to 2025
 
Boy So Blue’s traffic-stopping blend of electronic euphoria and lyrical sorrow trails the band’s seventh studio album, Out Of A Dream, coming in March
 
The Slow Readers Club – Boy So Blue
OUT NOW
From the album, Out Of A Dream – Released 14/3/25
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Insistent, pulsing electro-pop and yearning, literary indie blend and bleed into one as Manchester’s emotive and adventurous songsmiths, The Slow Readers Club release their stunning, statement single, Boy So Blue – OUT NOW. Energetic, cautionary, audacious and intricately crafted, the complex and richly emotive floor filler is the latest single to be taken from the four-piece’s seventh studio album, Out Of A Dream, released on Fri 14 March 2025.
 
Completing a brace of rearranged dates this month, taking in The Academy in Dublin (Fri 7 Feb) and Belfast’s Limelight (Sat 8 Feb), the band has also announced they will precede their five date April tour across Holland and Germany with ten UK-wide album launch shows. Opening at The Met, Bury on Sat 1 March 2025, the intimate, full-band shows will also take place in Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, London and Nottingham with the latest ticket availability at www.theslowreadersclub.co.uk
 
The Slow Readers’ Club’s first major live announcement for summer has also arrived in the form of a homecoming date alongside Elbow. No strangers to the stage of the 8,000-capacity Castlefield Arena, having played alongside both James and Pixies there in recent years, the band’s broad family of die-hard fans are past seeking evidence of their main stage credentials.
 
Coupling that visceral Readers live experience with painstaking studio work to create bolder, even more atmospheric worlds of their own, Boy So Blue follows the drama of previous singles, Technofear and Animals. Cloaking upset with uproar and seeing the sorrow behind a brave face, the precarious balance between introspection and glorious sonic abandon has been set.

Singer and lyricist, Aaron Starkie, says of the song: “The electronic element of our sound evolves from song to song and album to album. As we’ve always been drawn to the sounds of early Depeche Mode, Erasure, New Order and LCD Soundsystem, we decided to put those influences front and centre.
 
“‘Although it’s a big, joyous dance track, it’s about hiding deep emotional pain and trauma and how hedonistic coping mechanisms, like drugs, alcohol, and womanizing, are just temporary distractions. They ultimately fuel a self-destructive cycle. There’s a deliberate contrast between the euphoria of the music and the melancholy of the lyrics, capturing the subject's duality of light and darkness.”
 
Never more comfortable than eye-to-eye with an audience, The Slow Readers Club saw out 2024 with a run of SOLD-OUT UK-wide dates, including another memorable homecoming. They added their latest sell out on familiar territory at the ornate O2 Ritz, Manchester to historic, capacity shows at Manchester O2 Apollo and the Albert Hall. With further live announcements to come for 2025, all confirmed, upcoming UK live dates are as follows:

Sat 1 March – Bury, The Met

Sun 2 March – Manchester, Gorilla

Fri 14 March – Bury, The Met – SOLD OUT

Sat 15 March – Liverpool, Jacaranda Baltic

Sun 16 March – Leeds, Headrow House – two performances

Thu 20 March – London, Rough Trade East

Fri 21 March – Kingston, Prizm

Sat 22 March – Nottingham, Rough Trade – two performances

Wed 2 July – Manchester, Castlefield Arena w/Elbow

Created in the company of producer, Joe Cross (Courteeners) Out Of A Dream, is described by the band as “a collection of abstract visions that question reality, celebrate love and long for connection.” Remaining prolific in the studio as well as on stage, the album has rapidly followed 2023’s Knowledge Freedom Power, which gave the band their fourth Top 40 Official UK Album Chart position.

Reputed for their independence, the band’s journey started with the self-release of their debut, The Slow Readers Club in 2011, two years after Aaron Starkie (vocals) Kurtis Starkie (guitar) James Ryan (bass) and David Whitworth (drums) first picked up instruments and gathered ideas together. The band’s back catalogue also includes UK Top 20 hit album, Build A Tower (2018) and dual 2020 releases, Top 10-charting favourite, The Joy Of The Return and lockdown project, 91 Days In Isolation.
 
For the most up-to-date information on The Slow Readers Club, including future releases and tour announcements, collect with the band online at:

For the most up-to-date information on The Slow Readers Club, including future releases and tour announcements, collect with the band online at:
 

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