{"id":804905,"date":"2020-03-05T08:07:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/listen-boston-manors-dizzying-new-song"},"modified":"2020-03-05T08:07:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T15:07:00","slug":"listen-boston-manors-dizzying-new-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/listen-boston-manors-dizzying-new-song\/","title":{"rendered":"LISTEN: Boston Manor\u2019s Dizzying New Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"excerpt\" readability=\"8\">\n<p>Hot on the heels of &#8216;On A High Ledge&#8217;, this is &#8216;Ratking&#8217;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/assets\/uploads\/bostonmanor2020.jpg\"><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Boston Manor have released their second new song in two days.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Have a listen to &#8216;Ratking&#8217; below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen frameborder=\"0\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6IcvyyCNuj4\" width=\"635\">[embedded content]<\/iframe> &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Vocalist Henry Cox had this to say about what the track represents:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;\u2018Ratking\u2019 is about our inability to empathise with each other and work together as a collective. Even those who consider themselves tolerant should look at their inbuilt biases. I think our inability to show compassion to people who think differently to us is what is holding us back. We\u2019ve seen this so much over the last few years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just because someone voted differently to you, it does not automatically make them a bad person or invalidate their feelings. Even if someone is a hateful person, don\u2019t deny that person the opportunity to change. We need to help each other to grow rather than trying to cancel, shout down, ridicule or attack each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The song follows the release of &#8216;On A High Ledge&#8217;, a deeply personal song with a stark and powerful video to match:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen frameborder=\"0\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oaiyPaYJvB8\" width=\"635\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Henry described why the song is so close to home for him:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;When I was seven years old I saw a man commit suicide by jumping off the bus station in Blackpool a few feet in front of me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Growing up, I always rejected the idea of what a \u2018boy\u2019 should do; I never liked football, I thought fighting was stupid and at age six I spray-painted my bike&nbsp;pink.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve always hated the term \u2018man up\u2019. I think it is such a damaging thing to say to little boys. A big problem that we have to tackle is men\u2019s inability to seek help; it\u2019s this \u2018man up culture\u2019 that is baked into young men from a young age that makes them think &#8211; it\u2019s wrong to cry, it\u2019s wrong to share your feelings and being vulnerable is&nbsp;weak.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The biggest killer of young men today is suicide. Obviously, mental health support in the&nbsp;UK&nbsp;and most of the world is not what it should be, and mental health issues affect everyone &#8211; not just men. But I wanted to write a song dedicated to that man who died when I was young.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope, as a society, we can teach little boys being born now that being sad is okay. Strangely, the day after we wrote this song, one of the guys in the band was driving home and saw a man on a bridge over the motorway about to jump. He quickly pulled off the road and managed to talk to the guy until an ambulance came. A strange coincidence, but I really hope that man is doing better&nbsp;now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u200bIn the UK, you can contact Samaritans freely and anonymously for support. Find out how&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.samaritans.org\/how-we-can-help\/contact-samaritan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Both songs appear on the band&#8217;s upcoming album &#8216;GLUE&#8217; which is set for release on&nbsp;May 01 through Pure Noise Records.<\/p>\n<p>They have also announced a UK headline tour, with support from&nbsp;<strong>Trophy Eyes<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; check out the list of tour dates below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>APRIL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>30 &#8211; SOUTHAMPTON Engine Rooms<\/p>\n<p><strong>MAY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>02 &#8211; BRISTOL SWX<br \/>03 &#8211; NOTTINGHAM Rescue Rooms<br \/>04 &#8211; GLASGOW The Garage<br \/>05 &#8211; MANCHESTER Academy II<br \/>07 &#8211; LONDON Electric Brixton<br \/>08 &#8211; BIRMINGHAM O2 Institute II<br \/>09 &#8211; LEEDS Stylus<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/listen-boston-manors-dizzying-new-song\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rock Sound News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot on the heels of &#8216;On A High Ledge&#8217;, this is &#8216;Ratking&#8217;. Boston Manor have released their second new song in two days.&nbsp; Have a listen to &#8216;Ratking&#8217; below: [embedded content] &nbsp; Vocalist Henry Cox had this to say about what the track represents: &#8220;\u2018Ratking\u2019 is about our inability to empathise with each other and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-20 00:11:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}