PHOTO CREDIT: JACOB SMITH
AUGUST 11, 2020 — NEW YORK, NY— Manhattan-based indie artist Boo Riley has released a new music video for their self-titled single “Boo Riley,” off 2019 EP Mango Garry.
The video follows Boo Riley through the subway, into a busking moment in Tompkins Square Park, and into a gig at Arlene's Grocery. As someone who lives in New York and hasn't been able to venture to my favorite places in almost five months, the video serves as a nice ode to what's waiting on the other side of all of this!
On the video Austin Lesch of Boo Riley shares, "I was listening to Wilco’s ‘Wilco (The Song)’ and loved the lyric ‘this is aural arms open wide, a sonic shoulder for you to cry on.’ I wanted to write a song inspired by that line, but with Boo Riley’s perspective. The video is an extension of this. We wanted to visualize what we were trying to do sonically."
Boo Riley was created in 2016 as a musical moniker of Manhattanite, Austin Lesch. Born out of a time when Lesch was feeling artistically unfulfilled from his acting career and needing an outlet to create art on his own, the project now aims to create complex yet accessible tunes that draw inspiration from classic rock, 80’s pop, and indie whilst evoking the magic of a California night drive. Throughout the few years since Boo Riley’s inception, the group has released four EPs Boo Riley (2016), Kinetic
Collector (2017), Auriferous (2018), and Mango Garry (2019), put together a live band that plays NYC regularly, and has garnered praise from The Deli Magazine, CHILLFILTR, and The Indie Folx, to name a few. Currently, Boo Riley is in the studio working on a new EP as well as producing new video content for previously released material.
Boo Riley is Austin Lesch (guitar, vocals), Joseph Wallace (bass), and Jeff Roberts (drums).