Ben Glanfield and Jackson Boswell: Borderline members on their debut album, growing popularity

Borderline is looking like the next big thing.  The Kiwi pop band was formed in Auckland, and is made up of childhood friends Ben Glanfield, Jackson Boswell, Matthew McFadden, and Max Harries.   Momentum has been building since the released of their debut single, ‘Spinning’, in 2023, but the pace has really picked up in the last year or so.   Last year saw them become the first Kiwi act to sign with global powerhouse Empire, tour in North America, and open for Teddy Swims, and then this year they took home the People’s Choice Award at the Aotearoa Music Awards.  And now they’re set to drop their debut album, the self-titled ‘Borderline’.  “We’ve always set out to be good,” Boswell, the drummer and backing vocalist for the band, told Mike Hosking.  “We always kind of wanted to do this as our career and for the rest of our lives and to be the biggest band in the world, and we’ve kind of just been working towards that every day.”  “I think there was no other option for us. Whatever we ended up doing when we grew up ... it was going to be around music,” Glanfield, the lead singer and guitarist, told Hosking.  “We put all our eggs in one basket because it’s the only basket we wanted the eggs in.”  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.