The Bug Club - Very Human Features
The Bug Club are back, again, for their annual appointment at the garage rock makers’ market, where they’re flogging yet another pedigree record. LP number four, Very Human Features, arrives hot on the heels of the band’s first Sub Pop release, 2024’s On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System.
This record - a new batch of typically playful, riff-laden, smart Bug Club tunes - gives the band an excuse to continue their never-ending tour and feed their baying fans, engorged and expectant thanks to this band’s relentless record-releasing hot streak. “Have you ever been to Wales?”, asks the band in the album’s lead single, “Have U Ever Been 2 Wales.” If not, why not? It’s good. A new, discordant national anthem, if they didn’t already have a decent harmonious one. Oh, to be from a country where national pride is something other than the mark of a tosser. Starting as a classic, chugging chantalong, it’s interrupted by what sounds like an alien choir before they let rip. Think Dinosaur Jr. with a job at the tourist board. And Welsh. Definitely Welsh.
Having gained an appropriately beefed-up stateside following thanks to the beefy slab of garage-punk on On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System, and the band’s subsequent US tour, The Bug Club’s fruitful partnership with Sup Pop gets even tastier with Very Human Features. An assured and endlessly witty whirlwind of literary, self-referential, good-humoured rock ‘n’ roll, the new record sees the band riding their ever-swelling wave of popularity as if it’s a quick whizz around the Caldicot Aldi carpark on a pair of rollerskates. Long may it continue.
First pressing on limited 'Loser Edition' clear purple coloured vinyl & CD
Tracklist:
01. Full Grown Man
02. Twirling in the Middle
03. Jealous Boy
04. Young Reader
05. Beep Boop Computers
06. Muck (Very Human Features)
07. When the Little Choo Choo Train Toots His Little Horn
08. How to Be a Confidante
09. Living in the Future
10. Tales of a Visionary Teller
11. The Sound of Communism
12. Blame Me
13. Appropriate Emotions
The Bug Club are back, again, for their annual appointment at the garage rock makers’ market, where they’re flogging yet another pedigree record. LP number four, Very Human Features, arrives hot on the heels of the band’s first Sub Pop release, 2024’s On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System.
This record - a new batch of typically playful, riff-laden, smart Bug Club tunes - gives the band an excuse to continue their never-ending tour and feed their baying fans, engorged and expectant thanks to this band’s relentless record-releasing hot streak. “Have you ever been to Wales?”, asks the band in the album’s lead single, “Have U Ever Been 2 Wales.” If not, why not? It’s good. A new, discordant national anthem, if they didn’t already have a decent harmonious one. Oh, to be from a country where national pride is something other than the mark of a tosser. Starting as a classic, chugging chantalong, it’s interrupted by what sounds like an alien choir before they let rip. Think Dinosaur Jr. with a job at the tourist board. And Welsh. Definitely Welsh.
Having gained an appropriately beefed-up stateside following thanks to the beefy slab of garage-punk on On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System, and the band’s subsequent US tour, The Bug Club’s fruitful partnership with Sup Pop gets even tastier with Very Human Features. An assured and endlessly witty whirlwind of literary, self-referential, good-humoured rock ‘n’ roll, the new record sees the band riding their ever-swelling wave of popularity as if it’s a quick whizz around the Caldicot Aldi carpark on a pair of rollerskates. Long may it continue.
First pressing on limited 'Loser Edition' clear purple coloured vinyl & CD
Tracklist:
01. Full Grown Man
02. Twirling in the Middle
03. Jealous Boy
04. Young Reader
05. Beep Boop Computers
06. Muck (Very Human Features)
07. When the Little Choo Choo Train Toots His Little Horn
08. How to Be a Confidante
09. Living in the Future
10. Tales of a Visionary Teller
11. The Sound of Communism
12. Blame Me
13. Appropriate Emotions
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