Boyskout 'Another Life' album

BoySkout is actually a girl group. The San Francisco quartet has studied its synthy-post-punk history diligently and attentively. Moving from early 80's Cure dark-tinted bounce to Wedding Present/Heavenly indie-pop fetishism, BoySkout has the kind of early 90's punk sheen that's sadly lost on many of today's young bands. It's apparent that Wire, Gary Numan, the Dischord label and K Records are reference points, considering the downcast cool of frontwoman Leslie Satterfield. There's even a Kraftwerk cover ("Model") that showcases a subtle dourness that works alongside the very mechanical and cold original. The warm and somber jangle of Another Life is the sound of blood pumping through the veins of art-punk's past, producing a record that takes familiarity and freshness to a solid plane of co-existence. All tracks clean.

BIOGRAPHY

Born and raised in Georgia, Leslie Satterfield lived on a steady diet of The Beatles, Syd Barrett, and Olivia Newton John. In fact, she was once punished for listening to her favorite Beatles song, 'A Day in the Life' - because her mother told her that she could only listen to the song once before going to bed and the break in the middle made her think Leslie had played it twice.

Shared with her love of music, Leslie was obsessed with art and drawing - so obsessed that she quit after completing her opus, a six-foot tall psychedelic charcoal drawing. Leslie's next interest was photography, and she eventually earned a BA in Photography from Savannah College of Art & Design.

Inspired by bands and musicians such as Syd Barrett and Cat Power, she bought her first guitar at age 20. Her best friends laughed at her for at least a year while she learned how to play that guitar. But Leslie's persistence eventually paid off.

Boyskout came to fruition in 2001 when Leslie was offered a show opening for her long time favorite act The Need. Never mind that Boyskout didn't exist yet, or that she only had three weeks to prepare. She and band mates took the stage with a handful of songs, a bucket full of nerves, and disposition to spare.

In 2003 the ladies of Boyskout met up with acclaimed Bay Area producer Jeff Salzman (Stephen Malkumus, Killers, Will Oldham) who recorded their debut album 'School of Etiquette', which came out in 2004 on Alive Records (Black Keys, Two Gallants). The album garnered critical praise, such as: "If some CBGB's Frankenstein had managed, circa 1977, to transplant Patti Smith's sensibility into Blondie's garage-band pop, the result would have sounded something like BoySkout's "School of Etiquette."- Mark Jenkins, Washington Post. After a successful Austin appearance at South By Southwest in 2006, the band turned there attention to recording a follow-up to 'School of Etiquette'. They enlisted the help of acclaimed Producers David Schiffman (Nine Inch Nails, Johnny Cash, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against The Machine, The Mars Volta, Jimmy Eat World) and Donny Newenhouse (Film School, The Coachwhips). The result far exceeds their previous work, prompting San Francisco Bay Guardian journalist Tomas Palermo to write: "The songs I've heard… are as refreshing as local underground music can get."

Teaming up with San Francisco's Three Ring Records (Elephone, Scrabbel, Soltero, Rykarda Parasol, The Scattered Pages) to release 'Another Life', Boyskout is sure to be one of the most talked about bands in 2006.

Boyskout has shared the stage with Tegan & Sara, Metric, Shonen Knife, The Coachwhips, The Gossip,The Rogers Sisters, The Lovemakers, The Vanishing, Film School, Two Gallants, Hey Will Power, Veronica Lipgloss & the Evil Eyes, Intelligence, and The Blood Arm among others.

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