This is rough-around-the-edges rock that's sometimes ferocious, sometimes tender, and always compelling. Think David Bowie at 3am after a hard night. BITB combines ambitious songwriting and immediately distinctive vocals with an engaging, energetic stage show. Recent plays on KCRW’s “Morning Becomes Eclectic” signal that this band is one to watch.
“Boy in the Bubble play an arresting game of musical hopscotch…
Alternating between soft and sighing, loud and sloppy, [singer Josh Seidenfeld] knows exactly where he's going—and he's intent on taking us with him. Call Songs From the City on the Sun indie-rock at a burlesque show. Call it David Bowie on the verge of a meltdown. Call it what you like, but don't miss this Sun set.”
– Performing Songwriter
“Kings of the Bay Area, Boy In The Bubble manages to maintain an edgy rock sound in their light folk songs. Lead singer Josh Seidenfeld belts out deep lyrics over a heavy bass drum and rhythmic acoustic guitar. Although "Handy" is the band's single, I've had "Take Me Home" on repeat all day.”
– FreeIndie.com
“Very fun and infectious rock music with strong glam elements”
– The Bay Bridged
“Boy In The Bubble might be the cure for what ails the Bay Area music scene. ”
– Rosi Reyes, KPFA
“I’m normally a gangsta rap girl, but I’ve got a crush on this band. Their music has more depth and scope than we usually see in indie rock.”
– Rachel Swan, East Bay Express
ABOUT THE NEW RECORD:
Boy in the Bubble’s debut, "Songs From the City on the Sun," floats through musical moods with an uncanny ease. From lush pop (“Handy”) to violent urgency (“17 Irises”) to old-fashioned storytelling (“Uncharted Waters”) to pensive tenderness (“I Can’t Remember”), the songs cover a lot of territory. But somehow the record isn’t scattered. Songwriter and singer Josh Seidenfeld’s voice unifies the collection with a confidence and insistence on melody too often lacking in indie rock.
Seidenfeld’s vocal and songwriting confidence is hard-won. Growing up as a bookish Jewish kid in South Texas has a way of making a body know who he is and what he wants. His life since then has given him something to write about. After fleeing Texas, he collected stories and perspectives in an eyebrow-raising range of lives: building acoustic guitars for Keith Richards, Paul Simon and Joni Mitchell; park rangering in the Southwest; sweating through Columbia University; and years of work in the intense (and often heartbreaking) world of progressive politics. But try as he might, he could not escape the call of guitar, pen, paper, and sweaty rock and roll. "Songs From the City on the Sun" is the result.
“The Boy in the Bubble” sums up his approach to songwriting with a shrug: “I love stories, words, and melodies. Those things move armies. So I try to tell stories with this music, and work hard to use melodies and words that bring them to life. But also, who doesn’t love to shake their ass?”
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