The Ordinary Boys - Brassbound

Singles went Top 20, debut album "Over The Counter Culture" went gold in the UK as well as the aforementioned Japanese triumph and a band that had never even thought about getting signed found themselves at the top of the tree.

Following a debut album when three of your band (guitarist and co-songwriter William J. Brown, bass player James Gregory and new drummer Simon Goldring, who replaced founder member Charles Stanley in January of this year) are still in their teens may have been a daunting process but the four adopted a similar attitude to the debut, hooked up with producer Stephen Street and recorded the tracks they wanted to record on their terms.

Starting with the first song written from the new album, and the title track as it turns out, "Brassbound" rapidly demonstrates the changes that have happened to these four young men over 2004. Rather than making a facsimile of their debut, the four took their hardcore punk roots, their growing love of great songwriters such as Elvis Costello and Stevie Wonder among others, a long standing love of dub, ska and reggae and their belief that the music is about the music, not the way the band look ("let's start a club and not let anyone in" suggests 'Skull & Bones'), and fired it out over 12 tracks that encompass punk, ska, and soul influences. Lead singer and co-songwriter Sam Preston is keen to emphasise that the album was no pre-ordained master plan:
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