The Bootblacks' "Part Time Punks Sessions" on Icy Cold Records is a highly acclaimed collection of live radio recordings from their 2017 US tour, showcasing their powerful live sound, darkwave, and post-punk energy, with reviews praising its intensity, strong songwriting, and capturing their unique, atmospheric style, often compared to classic bands like The Cure or Siouxsie and the Banshees. It features tracks from Fragments and Veins, plus a re-recorded "Voices," solidifying their reputation as a significant act in the modern dark scene. 
Since the group’s founding in 2010, Brooklyn-based Bootblacks' sound has been described as a balance of contradictions: pensive and buoyant, referential and modern. Fitting, as the Bootblacks name is derived from novelist William Burroughs’ description of the dark underbelly of glitzy New York City. Vocalist and frontman Panther MacDonald lists an eclectic set of influences: Depeche Mode, New Order, Simple Minds, Echo and the Bunnymen, Joy Division, early U2, as well as the Beatles and David Bowie for lyrical inspiration. Bootblacks released their first EP ‘Narrowed in 2013, recorded with Brian Scott Herman, after previously collaborating with Jim Sclavunos (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds). Songwriters Mac Donald and Gorman describe the collaboration with Sclavunos as a “life-changing” one that informs Bootblacks’ music to this day.
1. Voices (PTP Session)
2. Hold & Dissolve (PTP Session)
3. Sudden Moves (PTP Session)
4. Sub Rosa (PTP Session)
5. Southpole (PTP Session)
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