BRITISH MURDER BOYS
SURGEON AND REGIS ANOUNCE DETAILS OF THEIR DEBUT FULL LENGTH ALBUM
ACTIVE AGENTS AND HOUSE BOYS - OUT 14 JUNE ON DOWNWARDS RECORDS
LISTEN TO ‘NOW, THIS IS YOU’ - STAND-ALONE SINGLE, OUT TODAY
Surgeon (Anthony Child) and Regis (Karl O’Connor) have announced details of their debut full length album as British Murder Boys, and today share a stand-alone digital only single ‘Now, This Is You’. Active Agents and House Boys, will be available on vinyl and digitally on 14 June via Downwards Records.
Renowned for their explosive live performances, British Murder Boys released a slew of influential 12"s in a short intense period between 2003-2005 on Child’s Counterbalance and Regis’ Downwards labels, before reuniting for a 12” on Mute’s Liberation Technologies imprint in 2012. Recent releases have been sporadic, and include a recent cover of Lou Reed ‘Real Good Time Together’ and a limited-edition cassette documenting their residency at Dutch studio Willem Twee.
Their long awaited but entirely unexpected debut full length album finds Child and O’Connor take somewhat of a departure from the heavy Industrial sound they originally made their name on from 2003-2005, but the album is no less murderous. Across 8-tracks the duo have delivered a stripped back return to the raw sound of the ‘90s warehouse scene.
O'Connor channels 70s New York via Alan Vega through the haze of a King Tubby style echo chamber. These tunes are no less propulsive than anything on their classic run of 12"s, but rather than coming straight at your gut, they rain down a filthy ‘90s brand of funk from above. ‘You Said You Want To’ places O'Connor's urgent vocal cadence in a broken Dancehall zone. ‘Keep It Down’ sees the two chasing each other through a maze of ricocheting pinprick electronics. ‘It's In The Heart’ returns to familiar four on the floor territory, but with a cosmic trail left by the FX drenched vocals.
Active Agents and House-Boys sounds unlike anything these two have done together or across their own prolific careers, and is all the better for it.
Active Agents and House Boys tracklisting (cat # DNSBMB10)
A1: I Saw The Set Up Man
A2: Killer I Said
B1: This Is A Calling
B2: What You Hide
B2: What You Hide
C1: You Said You Want To
C2: Keep It Down
D1: It’s In The Heart
D2: We Will Show You
Pre-order Active Agents and House Boys HERE
Listen to ‘Now, This Is You’ HERE
British Murder Boys select discography
Real Good Time Together (digital only, Lou Reed cover) - Downwards, 2020
Receiving the Law (ltd. cassette recorded at Willem Twee residency) - Downwards, 2019
Where Pail Limbs Lie - Liberation Technologies (Mute), 2012
Where Pail Limbs Lie - Liberation Technologies (Mute), 2012
BMB6 – All The Saints Have Been Hung - Counterbalance, 2005
BMB5 – Father Loves Us - Counterbalance, 2005
BMB4 – Fist / Splinter - Downwards, 2004
BMB3 – Don’t Give Way To Fear - Counterbalance, 2003
Learn Your Lesson - Counterbalance, 2003
Praise for British Murder Boys
“Electronic music hasn’t been the same since the project, a collaboration between Anthony ‘Surgeon’ Child and Karl ‘Regis’ O’Connor, began to dissolve, at least as a recording entity” – FACT
“British Murder Boys remain one of techno’s most revered acts. It’s not hard to understand why; after all, as individuals, Surgeon and Regis have provided us with some of the past two decades’ most uncompromising music, and the BMB project has in the past seen them pooling their talents to create truly provocative techno.” – Juno
“National fucking treasures” – The Quietus
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