Review: Bloxx pack their debut album Lie Out Loud with a succession of indie-pop belters
- by Joe Sharratt
- in Reviews
This is an easy review to write. With Lie Out Loud London-based four-piece BLOXX have composed an album that is stuffed full of smart, insanely catchy and well crafted indie-pop goodness. And if that’s your cup of tea, and even if it isn’t, you should go and give it a listen right now.
If you want to know more, and you really should, then BLOXX are comprised of Fee Booth (guitar and lead vocals), Paul Raubišķis (bass), Taz Sidhu (guitar), and Mozwin Norohna (drums). Despite their terrifyingly young ages, they have been gaining attention, airplay and column inches since they bagged hugely well-received supporting slots on tour with the likes of The Wombats, Sundara Karma, and Two Door Cinema Club and performed at Reading and Leeds festivals in 2019.
Having met and formed their band while in college, they’ve got a long history together and dropped their first EP Headspace last year to rave reviews. With their debut album though, they’ve taken things up another notch.
Album opener and title track Lie Out Loud lays the cards on the table. It’s raucous, fun, and madly energetic, but held together by some scintillating riffs, and Booth’s achingly gorgeous vocals, which dazzle throughout this record.
Coming Up Short slows things down with a laid-back, almost disco feel, while Go Out With You ripples outwards from a monster of a bassline, and 5000 Miles is all fuzzy guitars and another big chorus (get used to those). New single Off My Mind raises the chorus bar even higher, packing thumping drums and some risque lyrics into the mix too (“I can get you off / But never get you off my mind.”)
Give Me The Keys is another bassline-propelled whirlwind that sees Booth up the tempo of her delivery with strut-inspiring results, and Changes is the sound our summers needed: a breezy, care-free groove that can’t help but make you smile.
As the final notes of closing track Swimming fade away, one thing seems obvious: BLOXX are surely destined for big things.
Watch the official video for Off My Mind here.
Lie Out Loud tracklist:
1. Lie Out Loud
2. Coming Up Short
3. Go Out With You
4. 5000 Miles
5. Thinking About Yourself
6. Off My Mind
7. Give Me The Keys
8. Hey Jenny
9. Changes
10. It Won’t Work Out
11. What You Needed
12. Swimming
indie pop
