To My Boy - 'Fear of Fragility'

The term ‘new rave’ may be a joke, a con, a media construct or all of the above, but you can’t have missed the ever-increasing amount of indie bands releasing danceable electronic records. God knows, when record companies see a trend they like to milk it for all it’s worth. To My Boy, once a straight four-piece indie rock band, joined the fray by losing two members and gaining a laptop. Having garnered much praise for their debut album ‘Messages’, fourth single ‘Fear Of Fragility’ is disappointingly average. Sounding a little like early New Order, and a little like the now defunct Clor (two members of which helped produced ‘Messages’) is a great way to start, and those jerky guitars aren’t bad either. But ‘Fear Of Fragility’ should be much more interesting than this. Without a hit and run tune, or the spine-tingling quirkiness of earlier singles like ‘I Am X-ray,’ it passes by like so much indie-tronic filler.

Released 24/09/07 on Abeano Music.