Alexander Boe Releases “Coffee Shops/Broken Legs”
Credit: Pic by Kobi Albo
"Coffee Shops/Broken Legs” is the final, most expansive glimpse into Alexander Boe’s sonic universe before the full unveiling of his debut album, The Experimental. Clocking in at eight minutes, this genre-blurring composition merges lo-fi aggression with ambient dread and shoegaze transcendence.
The track was born in a Tel Aviv café — a stream-of-consciousness meditation on ambition, art, and the quiet violence of the industry. A rhythmic alt-rock loop gives voice to Boe’s frustration with creative suppression and the contradictions of the artistic world. As the track unfolds, its layers begin to fray — glitchy percussion collapses into ambient pulses, a mantra surfaces like static:
What follows is a controlled implosion. A spiraling jam laced with sub-bass tension, reversed whispers, and Rhodes haze gives way to a final wall-of-sound eruption — a scream for freedom and clarity.
There’s more at stake than just art. Written during a time when democracy in Israel felt (and still feels) perilously fragile, Boe’s choice to sing in English becomes an act of subtle protest — a way to claim distance, perspective, and autonomy. The line “Dare you alter my speech?” hangs in the air, political as much as personal.
If we keep turning this way...
The song ends with the phrase that gives the album its name: The experimental feeling’s taking over.
It is not just a lyric — it’s a manifesto.
