A Quick Chat with boredslide

For readers discovering you for the first time, how did boredslide begin, and what brings you together creatively as a duo?
We’ve been best friends since school and have played in a bunch of bands together over the years - most recently collaborating in Kitschen Boy (Carlos as bassist and Nick as producer/session performer). We realised that after 15 or so years of collaborating, that we’d never had a project consisting of just the two of us. We’ve always admired each other’s songwriting and overall approach to music - so this felt like the next logical step in our musical journeys.

How would you describe the boredslide sound and perspective to someone who’s never heard your music before?
boredslide is a completely DIY bedroom pop project that incorporates all our main songwriting sensibilities, particularly within the jangle, dreampop and punk genres. We keep songs to less than two-minutes in length - not only as a challenge to have the songs still sound like a comprehensive and thought-out composition, but also to make sure that we can honour our crazy release commitment of a song every fortnight in 2026.

You’re releasing 26 songs across 2026, what inspired the decision to take on such a fast, consistent rollout?
In all of our previous projects, we’ve been meticulous in planning and ensuring each single has a 6-8 week rollout, which came at the expense of releasing larger bodies of work and keeping the creativity flowing. By announcing at the start of the year that we’re releasing a song every two weeks, it’s kept us accountable too. It’s taught us to trust our musical instincts a bit more and not to labour on things that don’t need changing. Our bedroom writing and recording sessions every week feel like sport training a bit - regimented, considered and sometimes under the pump. It’s been so fun though, and we hope that it translates in the music.

‘handshake’ is the latest release in the Limited Express run, what does this track reveal about where the project is heading?
The sound leans on our more nostalgic and jangle pop writing that we’ve done in previous projects like Aeroplane Mode, Kitschen Boy and DIET, but staying true to our bedroom pop idols like Castlebeat and The Radio Dept. Our release schedule is likely to alternate between the ‘handshake’ sound (nostaglic and guitar-driven) and the weird, alt-pop sound we also go for. We made the video with our super talented friend Thomas Marchesani (insta: @camcord.video) and plan on doing more visual content like ‘handshake’ with his cameras and video synthesizer.

The song centres on compromise and conflict. How did those themes take shape during the writing process?
We’ve never been writers who tackle global/political issues, but when writing ‘handshake’ we were reflecting on how we hope the world and its leaders would reconcile more and how even a gesture like a handshake could go a long way. World issues are so complex that obviously a handshake is not enough - but we’ll hold onto that false sense of hope that it could at least advance the plot.

Everything was recorded in a bedroom studio, what does that environment bring to your sound that bigger spaces don’t?
The ability to work quickly and without the pressure of time and a budget. We’ve worked for years in studios and whilst that’s so much fun and great for writing, we’re loving how efficient we can be with no overheads and only two members to think about. We hope that by being completely DIY from writing all the way to mastering, the songs stay authentic to the bedroom pop and DIY genres.

With a new release every fortnight, how does momentum shape your creative process and decision-making?
Momentum is a huge thing in writing. Since we’re exercising the songwriting muscle so much, it really helps you stay out of a rut. Things don’t tend to become stale when you have to keep moving at a pretty brisk pace. In saying that, we had 15 demos fairly fleshed out across a one-year period before starting 2026, which set us up for success hopefully.

When listeners reach the end of the 26-song run, what do you hope they’ll understand about boredslide as a project?
Hopefully our friendship shines through in the music and encourages others to start a new band with their best mate while they’ve still got the energy. We also hope it gets them listening to more and more bedroom pop, because there’s so many great DIY producers out there that are making it all happen on their own.

boredslide’s new single handshake is out now, listen: https://gyro.to/handshake