Single evaluate
bloody/tub: Idle Palms / Sunder (KookyToo)
7″ vinyl / DL
Launched 23 Sept 2022 (digital) 30 Sept 2022 (vinyl)
Initially a Northampton singer-songwriter and bed room producer, Kailan Value, however now a fully-fledged five-piece band, bloody/tub have made extraordinary progress. Championed by Lauren Laverne, a big following on Spotify with over 1.8 million streams and over 36,000 month-to-month listeners, incendiary stay units and a LTW interview that reduces folks to tears… a bodily, tactile, vinyl launch is strictly what this band must cement their standing.
Lesser publications will quickly be attempting to persuade you that there’s some sort of revival of the Gothic style: what with Autofiction by Suede being filled with darkness, romance and fireplace and a wide range of new bands taking part in a contemporary tackle music exorcising the darkish with an exhilaration and verve. bloody/tub are one such band.
I launched you to them earlier than and am happy that fifteen months on they’re now a full band who’ve made big progress, with out dropping the essence of mainman Kailans imaginative and prescient.
The label describe the one in purple prose: Sonically a bout of sleep paralysis, emotionally a midnight textual content out of your favorite ex, bloody/tub are feverish, and bewitching taking a post-punk passage that sounds distinctly their very own. Catchy melodies dance all through the tracks, disguising a heaviness, a desperation, drowning someplace beneath the floor.
The video for Idle Palms manages to counterbalance the bleakness with some ‘discovered’ imagery from B-movies exhibiting that bloody/tub can already chuckle on the depressing bunch of fuckers they’re being portrayed as.
Killer bass, nice guitar-noise, a monastic vibe, stress and a kinetic power became musical launch.
The one is launched on a really cool new label, with a powerful again catalogue on its mum or dad firm.
KookyToo is an offshoot of Kooky Information est. 1996, earlier output together with the acclaimed Durutti Column album ‘A Paean To Wilson’, Maps, Pram, Seafood, and Misty’s Massive Journey. That is the debut label launch.
It’s a peach – a dark neu wave banger for our gloomy fin de siècle death-spiralling age. And it’s more and more relatable
The Sunder video is low-budget however ingenious, monochrome psychedelia and a fever dream in black and white. It units off the music to nice impact.
Neu Gothic, Trendy Gloom, Darkish Power? Attempting to pigeonhole or discover a identify for a style is silly. Take every band as you discover them. Take pleasure in.
Let bloody/tub soundtrack your disappointment and frustration however come out stronger on the opposite facet. They’re creating right into a darkish and intense rock band that you-can-dance-to primarily based on these songs. They’re gearing up for the disco on the Finish of The World maybe…
Within the meantime…
Confirmed gigs:
Black Prince, Northampton 30/9/22
The Sebright Arms, London E2 23/10/22 with Deafdeafdeaf
The Boileroom, Guildford 15/11/22 supporting bdrmm
The Firebug, Leicester 16/11/22 supporting bdrmm
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