Austin’s The Boxing Lesson are playing tonight at 101X’s “The Next Big Thing” at Emo’s (see the poster below), and if you’re up for a little space-y rock music, this show might be the one for you.

The Boxing Lesson’s new album Wild Streaks & Windy Days has been earning the band a lot of Pink Floyd comparisons, some of which are justified by the indulgent use of synthesizers and reverb, but for all the space-rock cliches this band lives up to, they seem to be having fun for every second of it. The band themselves describe the album as “It’s definitely psychedelic, but not in the traditional sense. Part organic. Part electronic. Part outer fucking space.” Did you hear that? Outer Fucking Space.

The album was produced by Grammy-Nominated Producer Tim Gerron (Lick Lick, Seth Walker, etc.), and it sounds phenomenal. The band take the huge ’space’ that Gerron creates for them and fill it up to the brim with howling Moogs, wailing guitars, soaring synths, and all those other “gerund-instrument” cliches you can come up with. Of course, the band couldn’t be having that kind of fun if the whole album wasn’t backed up by solid songwriting.

Have a listen to track one off the album “Dark Side of the Moog,” and then head out to the show tonight at Emo’s.

Tunes:

The Boxing Lesson - “Dark Side of the Moog”

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Wild Streaks & Windy Days is out now. You can get it here.

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