"I think about how short life is a lot. I think we buy into a fantasy that America, money, status, time and titles are real. Those things are really just fabrications in the framework of the American psyche. Our government has failed us. Corporate America owns every facet of our lives. We're all glued to social media. Cheap dopamine hits scrolling by."
"America is a business and we all work for the company. If one were to fight a war against these fabrications, one would have to start breaking that framework and value system down. The war would be inside each of us. Denying those forces trying to buy our minds and time. We are a part of something much bigger. So it's not an ordinary war."
Boys Life reunited after years apart and reissued seminal material on Numero, then recorded new music inspired by that revival. Ordinary Wars, a four-song EP, will be released November 21 via Spartan, led by the single and video for "Ordinary War." Singer-guitarist Brandon Butler frames the EP around critiques of American capitalism, corporate control, social media, and the internal struggle to resist those forces. Boys Life formed in 1993, released albums in 1995 and 1996, and helped shape the Midwest emo scene alongside Braid and Christie Front Drive. The band recorded Ordinary Wars in June 2024 at Weights and Measures Soundlab with Duane Trow.
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