{"id":2400234,"date":"2026-05-03T14:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T14:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2400234"},"modified":"2026-05-03T14:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T14:40:15","slug":"soul-psych-funk-nonet-the-sh-booms-drop-first-new-music-in-six-years-with-this-is-a-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/soul-psych-funk-nonet-the-sh-booms-drop-first-new-music-in-six-years-with-this-is-a-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Soul-Psych-Funk Nonet The Sh-Booms Drop First New Music in Six Years With &#8220;This Is a Test&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n            <!-- image --><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thatericalper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/download-81.jpg\" data-caption=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>            <!-- content --><\/p>\n<p>Six years is a long time to wait. The Sh-Booms have ended it with \u201cThis Is a Test,\u201d the title track from their new EP \u2018This Is a Test,\u2019 out now digitally and on limited 12\u2033 vinyl. It\u2019s the Orlando nine-piece\u2019s first recorded music since 2019, and it lands with a sound that\u2019s moved well past where they left off.<\/p>\n<p>The single runs over six and a half minutes. Bandleader and bassist Alfred Ruiz describes it as \u201ca sci-fi vision of two astronauts on a collision course in the cosmic ocean,\u201d where euphoric intergalactic love collides with a mission that threatens everything. It\u2019s a premise that sounds ambitious on paper, and the track earns it.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: This Is a Test\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/3YbmlVyL6qtIIo7q65ACpA?si=BOAUIfIJQx6tMhJhxnQN1A&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>New Wave textures, post-punk lock-grooves, funk-driven vocoder passages, and widescreen space-rock builds all share space inside one song. There\u2019s dancefloor urgency running underneath cinematic scale, and the combination works. Flood Magazine put it plainly, drawing comparisons to Sharon Jones &amp; the Dap-Kings, Amy Winehouse, and Alabama Shakes.<\/p>\n<p>Production came from Grammy-nominated engineer Alan Armitage (Boyz II Men) at his Orlando studio The Snake Arcade. Grammy Award-winner Emily Lazar (Beck, Vampire Weekend, Minus the Bear) handled mastering at The Lodge in New York. The technical pedigree behind this record is serious.<\/p>\n<p>The Sh-Booms formed out of Orlando\u2019s underground scene with Ruiz pushing the band toward a sound built around movement and communal energy. Vocalist Brenda Radney, previously signed to Justin Timberlake\u2019s Tennman Records, joined in 2015 and shifted the band\u2019s trajectory sharply upward. Festival appearances followed, along with shared stages with The Roots, Of Montreal, KRS-One, and a mini-tour with The B-52\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>When 2020 shut everything down, the band regrouped at The Snake Arcade and went deeper. Soul foundations got layered with psychedelia, post-punk, New Wave, synth textures, and art-pop experimentation. \u2018This Is a Test\u2019 is what came out of that process, and it reflects every bit of that stretch.<\/p>\n<p>The EP is out now digitally. The limited 12\u2033 vinyl is available now everywhere. Pre-save and streaming at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thesh-booms.hearnow.com\">https:\/\/thesh-booms.hearnow.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018This Is a Test\u2019 EP Track Listing:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Side A<\/p>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Love of a Ghost (Shivvvers)<\/li>\n<li>This Is a Test<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Side B<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Broken Open<\/li>\n<li>Sin &amp; The City (Heavy Weather)<\/li>\n<\/ol><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.thatericalper.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six years is a long time to wait. The Sh-Booms have ended it with \u201cThis Is a Test,\u201d the title track from their new EP \u2018This Is a Test,\u2019 out now digitally and on limited 12\u2033 vinyl. It\u2019s the Orlando nine-piece\u2019s first recorded music since 2019, and it lands with a sound that\u2019s moved well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2400235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[468629,468630,468631,394834,468632,468633,468634,468635,468636,468637,468638,468639,468640],"class_list":["post-2400234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-alan-armitage","tag-alfred-ruiz","tag-brenda-radney","tag-crowbar","tag-emily-lazar","tag-flood-magazine","tag-jacuzzi-boys","tag-krs-one","tag-of-montreal","tag-the-b-52s","tag-the-roots","tag-the-sh-booms","tag-wills-pub"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Soul-Psych-Funk-Nonet-The-Sh-Booms-Drop-First-New-Music-in-Six.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2400234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2400236,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400234\/revisions\/2400236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2400235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2400234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2400234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2400234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}