New York City's glorious garage-noise mutants Boss Hog have released the track "Formula X." The track appears on their first studio album in 17 years, Brood X, due for release this March 24th via In The Red Records. Listen and share "Formula X" here. Led by Cristina Martinez (ably assisted by her faithful sideman/husband Jon Spencer, as ever playing Flavor Flav to Cristina's Chuck D), Brood X feels less like the work of a group who've been on ice for so long, more a slithering and sludgy monster of an album, a boiling pot of hot funk keys, growling punk attack, searing blues breaks and the ground-shaking holler of Martinez.
Having recently shared a new track in '17', whose dark observational poetry has already been championed by The New York Times, The Quietus, SPIN and more. Speaking of their almost two-decade gestation, Cristina explains: "There are different broods of cicadas emerging in cyclical periods, there are 13-year cicadas and 17-year cicadas. That's what Boss Hog is like - we're operating on our own cycle. We go underground for a number of years, re-emerge, make beautiful sounds, and then go away. That's our cyclical life." On hiatus since they finished promoting 2000's icy, wonderful 'Whiteout' album, Boss Hog began stirring again late in 2008 with the first of several short runs of shows. "We'd play a handful of shows, once a year," Martinez remembers. "Festivals, the Amphetamine Reptile 25th Anniversary party, some benefit shows." Things started getting serious a couple of years later, when the Boss Hog all-stars - Martinez, Spencer, bassist Jen Jurgensen, drummer Hollis Queens and keysman Mickey Finn - decided this reunion habit was worth committing to wax.Tour Dates:
Feb 3 - London, UK - Oslo Hackney
Feb 4 - Maastricht, Netherlands - Muziekgieterij
Feb 5 - Utrecht, Netherlands - Tivoli de Helling
Feb 6 - Leuven, Belgium - Het Depot
Feb 8 - Rouen, France - 106 Club
Feb 9 - Paris, France - La Maroquinerie
Feb 10 - Nantes, France - Le Stereolux
Feb 11 - La Rochelle, France - La Sirene
March 30 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
March 31 - Buffalo, NY - The Waiting Room
April 1 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom
April 7 - Washington, DC - Rock and Roll Hotel
April 8 - Philadelphia, PA - Underground Arts
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