Boys Life , the long-defunct Kansas City, Missouri, band who helped pioneer Midwest emo in the 1990s, reunited last year to reissue their seminal work on Numero. Now, they’ve announced their first new music in nearly 30 years. Boys Life will release Ordinary Wars , a new four-song EP, on November 21 via Spartan . Check out the lead single “Ordinary War” and its music video below.

“I think about how short life is a lot,” said singer-guitarist Brandon Butler. “I think we buy into a fantasy that America, money, status, time and titles are real. Those things are really just fabrications in the framework of the American psyche. Our government has failed us. Corporate America owns every facet of our lives. We’re all glued to social media. Cheap dopamine hits scrolling by. Your ideas and

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