We first caught cursory word of headboy earlier this month when the trio shared a stage with Vermont’s Thus Love in their hometown of London. But the buzz is quickly growing loud enough to fill its own headline, and now the band follows through on a blossoming promise with a new winding indie single titled “Cement,” out today (March 21). The tumbling, delicately forceful track about the importance of friendship will be featured on headboy’s forthcoming debut EP Was It What You Thought, due June 9 via Blitzcat Records.
“In the heat of a turbulent summer, misrule reigned. ‘Cement’ is about taking stock and refuge in the comfort of your friends and the people around you; and the rediscovery of friendship,” the band declares. “It includes advice from Mars’ grandfather ‘don’t count the days it slows them down’ — a warning against wishing away life.”
That Mars is Mars West, headboy’s guitarist/bassist and vocalist, who adds: “When things are difficult I often find myself thinking ‘how long before this will end?’ Then I think about my grandfather’s warning… Sometimes you have to absorb yourself in whatever chapter of life you are in, instead of spending all your time wishing for the next one. ‘Cement’ is very much about that.”
For headboy, their soon is now.