Boy Scouts is the recording project of Taylor Vick who hails from sunny San Francisco. She makes the kind of lo-fi, bedroom-recorded, acoustic songs that we’re pretty fond of here at WTD, and I must say she does it rather well. Boy Scouts has a Soundcloud and a Bandcamp page, with some really nice demos spread between the two.
Her Soundcloud has the most recent material, including ‘The End Of It’, which offsets its air of general melancholy with a warm and fuzzy atmosphere, and ‘Did You See Me Cry’ which is my current favourite, a song with a soft and sad confidence, building to a finale of layered vocals
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The latest release on Bandcamp is from back in January. Simply entitled 3, it comprises of (you guessed it) three songs which follow the template I described above. Fans of hopeful sad-kid bedroom acts such as Frankie Cosmos, FCFEC and Whatever, Dad will love it.
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That’s all for now folks! Hopefully Boy Scouts will have a more substantial release in the near future. Be sure to keep on eye on Soundcloud and Bandcamp in case that happens.