Crows return with ‘Bored’ and announce new album
For the first time since 2022, Crows have made their comeback with ‘Bored’, a high-octane track that wastes no time in getting right back into it. That’s not all; the London-based band also marked their return with the announcement of a new album.
The band’s 2022 album, Beware Believers, was an establishing release. It solidified the band’s status as not only one of the most exciting bands buzzing around the live music scene in the UKs capital city, but it was another solid stone lining their way to the top. Following their debut, Silver Tongues in 2019, nothing could stop them.
But then they seemed to disappear. It’s been two years since any new music from the group who seemed to be prolific before with two records, EPs and a solid run of singles. However, their comeback track, ‘Bored,’ makes sense as the group tackles the monotony of life that runs alongside being in a band unless you’re rich enough to bypass the graft.
“Like so many musicians today, being off album cycle means no touring, which in turn means looking for more day-to-day work options to make ends meet,” their singer James Cox explained. In this limbo state, inspiration found its way back in through the cracks, and an album was born titled Reason Enough. “We wrote ‘Reason Enough’ in a period like this when we were all simultaneously working day jobs to pay the bills.”
‘Bored’ especially captures that energy. Merging the brain-numbing repetition of daily life with the overwhelming feeling of things never changing, both socially and politically, it is an anthem of total annoyance. “With what seemed like no hope for respite, or any change to my routine whatsoever, the song ‘Bored’ came out of that cycle of waking up and not being able to shake the feeling of wanting to bang your forehead against a brick wall,” Cox said.
But for a song about boredom and monotony, the track itself is anything but reflective of those things. Instead, it feels like a band breaking down a wall, shaking off the dust and then continuing to smash through into new and exciting rooms. The making of the song saw them doing that as they ditched the practice room they’d been in for years now and left behind East London for Stroud in Gloucestershire. They made a former Catholic church and convent their musical home, and that sense of divine tradition merged with blasphemous rebellion certainly found its way into the song as Crows hit all the must-haves for a good old-fashioned rock song and then gave it a little something special.
Now back from the convent and ready to reemerge, the trials of daily life gave way to their most inspired album yet, led with a powerful opening remark in the form of ‘Bored’. Blowing the cobwebs away, the energy of the song feels sure to linger long enough to get fans through to 27th September, when Reason Enough lands. Then after that, the group are hitting the round for a UK and Europe tour, making it more than clear that they’re back and ready for action.
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