Artist:
The Bug Club
Genre:
Pop/Rock
Alternative/Indie Rock
Garage Rock Revival
Total Time:
42:07
Record Label:
Sub Pop Records
Stream or Buy:
CD, Amazon Music, Vinyl, Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
June 13, 2025
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The Bug Club
Genre:
Pop/Rock
Alternative/Indie Rock
Garage Rock Revival
Total Time:
42:07
Record Label:
Sub Pop Records
Stream or Buy:
CD, Amazon Music, Vinyl, Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
June 13, 2025
"The Entertainment Factor is supported by its audience. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission."
Product Description: 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. That record saw the band continue their love affair with BBC Radio 6, start up a new one with KEXP thanks to a session with them, and crop up in the pages of the NME. Anything else from the bucket list? Oh yeah, festival slots including packing home ground Green Man's Walled Garden to it's non-existent rafters.
Then shows across the US in those venues us Brits tend to only hear about. 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.On Very Human Features The Bug Club have continued in their habit of presenting as a collective mind.
Two-in-one. Rarely do you find a band with two creative forces that have such a singular, shared perspective, sense of humour and knack for a pop melody. In "Beep Boop Computers" vocalists Sam (also on guitar) and Tilly (on bass) swap between "I"s, "my"s and "we"s as if there isn't any difference between the lot, all the while skewering interpersonal relationships and experiences in a glorious, glam rock dismantling of the human aspects the album's title references. Staying on topic, "How to Be a Confidante" does that-thing-The-Bug-Club-really-know-how-to-do where they, again speaking as two voices from the same mind, pluck out common aspects of how we all live and make them sound ridiculous.
The surreal is in the familiar, not in ignoring the familiar - The Bug Club know this and that understanding joins an unrelenting bassline in forming the backbone of this garage rock-infused belter.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.
Then shows across the US in those venues us Brits tend to only hear about. 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.On Very Human Features The Bug Club have continued in their habit of presenting as a collective mind.
Two-in-one. Rarely do you find a band with two creative forces that have such a singular, shared perspective, sense of humour and knack for a pop melody. In "Beep Boop Computers" vocalists Sam (also on guitar) and Tilly (on bass) swap between "I"s, "my"s and "we"s as if there isn't any difference between the lot, all the while skewering interpersonal relationships and experiences in a glorious, glam rock dismantling of the human aspects the album's title references. Staying on topic, "How to Be a Confidante" does that-thing-The-Bug-Club-really-know-how-to-do where they, again speaking as two voices from the same mind, pluck out common aspects of how we all live and make them sound ridiculous.
The surreal is in the familiar, not in ignoring the familiar - The Bug Club know this and that understanding joins an unrelenting bassline in forming the backbone of this garage rock-infused belter.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.
TRACK LIST:
1 .
Full Grown Man
(03:43)
2 . Twirling in the Middle (03:44)
3 . Jealous Boy (02:40)
4 . Young Reader (03:28)
5 . Beep Boop Computers (02:39)
6 . Muck (Very Human Features) (04:35)
7 . When the Little Choo Choo Train Toots His Little Horn (01:37)
8 . How to Be a Confidante (04:38)
9 . Living in the Future (02:42)
10 . Tales of a Visionary Teller (02:35)
11 . The Sound of Communism (02:24)
12 . Blame Me (04:05)
13 .Appropriate Emotions (03:27)
2 . Twirling in the Middle (03:44)
3 . Jealous Boy (02:40)
4 . Young Reader (03:28)
5 . Beep Boop Computers (02:39)
6 . Muck (Very Human Features) (04:35)
7 . When the Little Choo Choo Train Toots His Little Horn (01:37)
8 . How to Be a Confidante (04:38)
9 . Living in the Future (02:42)
10 . Tales of a Visionary Teller (02:35)
11 . The Sound of Communism (02:24)
12 . Blame Me (04:05)
13 .Appropriate Emotions (03:27)
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