Following a handful of formative sessions with prolific drummer/producer Jim Sclavunos (Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Sonic Youth), the brooklyn-based Bootblacks released its first ep, narrowed, in the fall of 2012. Debut full- length veins came next in 2016 and was backed by extensive touring. 2017’s fragments found the band expanding to a bigger, more atmospheric and synth- heavy sound. The album landed on many year-end lists and helped earn slots on festivals such as cold waves, terminus, absolution, wave gotik treffen, and murder of crows.

Thin skies, Bootblacks’ first album for artoffact records, zooms forward where fragments left […]