The third tune from Leeds outfit Bathing Fits is now accessible for us all to listen to. It’s a banger says Keith Goldhanger who can’t get sufficient of this quartet.
All of it started inside South London’s Brixton Windmill one night time earlier this yr. 4 characters stood in entrance of the early arrivals and made a few of us in attendance really feel we had been watching the most effective leisure accessible wherever on the earth at that individual second. Let’s not bounce to conclusions simply but we thought, they could by no means come again, bands can generally disappear as quick as they arrive. Depart it a couple of months earlier than stepping into for a second opinion, they could return and be garbage…….
Not Bathing Fits although.
These individuals are leaping on trains and buses to go to the venues the nation has to supply for these of us who get pleasure from greater than only a pint once we exit within the evenings. Over half a dozen reveals witnessed since that chilly night time in January has taught a few of us that we actually do have one thing particular right here.
Bathing Fits are why assist bands needs to be seen and why patronising small venues needs to be visited and why you don’t should be paying a month’s procuring funds to be entertained.
Freaks, a reside favorite that ‘feels like a caught report’ in accordance with the extra ‘critical minded’ music workers we generally cross paths with is without doubt one of the most fun tunes anybody has launched to this point this yr in accordance with at the very least certainly one of us. The ‘caught report’ the doubters are referring to is Estelle’s ‘Freak’ with added Bathing Fits chaotic, hypnotic, wonderful noise added together with a heavy nosebleed beat and vocals pushed by the band’s vocalist/reside drum machine operator Freyja Blevins.
At solely three minutes’ lengthy it takes simply as lengthy to influence you to hearken to this than it’s so that you can really hearken to this.
And hearken to this it’s best to.
Recorded with Benny Howell – AKA Leeds/Berlin producer DJ Subaru – the observe incorporates a punchy beat, a rowdy bass line , some delicate guitars that piece by the mayhem that leads to making you are feeling as if you’re listening to certainly one of your favorite punk rock bands for the very first time. They’re younger, thrilling, chaotic and are as thrilling as another band you possibly can have the pleasure of seeing reside in 2025. Climb on board now and really feel the noise, punch the air, lose your thoughts and anticipate what else lies forward. Go and see Bathing Fits reside, you’ll not be disillusioned and you’ll not remorse your resolution.
That is Freak by Bathing Fits and it’s the most effective observe a few of us will hear all yr.
Bathing Fits are ;
Freyja Blevins – Drum machine/Vocals (she/her)
George Dickinson – Guitar (he/him)
Alex Mulholland – Guitar (he/him)
Elise Hughes – Bass (she/her)
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Phrases by Keith Goldhanger. Extra writing by Keith on Louder Than Battle will be discovered at his creator’s archive. You can even discover Keith on Fb Instagram and Bluesky
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