The Japanese House returns with new single Boyhood


Press photo of The Japanese House by Max Barnett

The Japanese House by Max Barnett

The Japanese House debut album ‘Good At Falling’ was released in 2019.

The Japanese House has shared her new single Boyhood.

“When Katie and I were young and in love, we fantasised about riding off into the distance on her horse Bam Bam, away from all the problems that came from being gay and in love back then,” Amber Bain has said.




This song talks about how sometimes, however hard you try, you can’t help but be a product of the things that happened to you or held you back earlier on in life. But also, and more importantly, it’s about hope for overcoming those things. Look at us now: not riding away, but towards…something.

“This horse was very lovely to us, but I think deep down Bam Bam was the horse we were riding all along, and wherever I’m recklessly galloping off to in my life, Katie will be riding bareback behind me like a lunatic, arms around me, like we’d always planned.”



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