Hush Boy Explained

Hush Boy
Cover:Basement Jaxx - Hush Boy single cover.png
Type:single
Artist:Basement Jaxx
Album:Crazy Itch Radio
B-Side:Trouble
Released:[1]
Label:XL
Prev Title:Do Your Thing
Prev Year:2005
Next Title:Take Me Back to Your House
Next Year:2006

"Hush Boy" is a song by English electronic music duo Basement Jaxx. It was released in August 2006 by record label XL as the first single from their fourth studio album, Crazy Itch Radio (2006). It reached number 27 on the UK Singles Chart and number 39 in Australia.

Composition

With the song "Oh My Gosh", the duo sat down and wrote it specially as a single for the album. Ratcliffe personally felt encouraged by it, he thought it was a good way to ease them back into songwriting process and applied the treatment to make "Hush Boy". However, they failed, and made the process even more difficult.[2]

Music video

Scott Lapatine from Stereogum stated: "Sorry for all the YouTubing today. Well, actually we're not that sorry seeing as how BJaxx never let us down."[3]

Track listings

UK CD single

  1. "Hush Boy"
  2. "Trouble"

UK 12-inch single 1

  1. "Hush Boy"
  2. "Hush Salsa"
  3. "Trouble"

UK 12-inch single 2

  1. "Hush Boy" (Soul Seekerz remix)
  2. "Hush Boy" (Les Visiteurs remix)
  3. "Hush Boy" (Les Visiteurs dub)

Notes and References

  1. New Releases: Singles. Music Week. 25. 26 August 2006.
  2. . FaceCulture. 4 August 2006. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  3. Web site: New Basement Jaxx Video – "Hush Boy". Scott Lapatine. 5 September 2006 . Stereogum. 22 May 2016.