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P R E S E N T S .···. ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ The Bug Club - Very Human Features ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ARTiST..[ The Bug Club ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ TiTLE...[ Very Human Features ▓▓▓▓█ ████ GENRE...[ Rock CAT#....[ SP1683 ████ ████ LABEL...[ Sub Pop Records ENCODER.[ Lame 3.100 ████ ████ YEAR....[ 2025 QUALiTY.[ 320kbps ████ ████ SOURCE..[ WEB (FLAC) MODE....[ Joint Stereo ████ ████ PLAYTIME[ 43:09 REL.DATE[ 06.12.2025 ████ ████ TRACKS..[ 13 RiPPER..[ TEAM OMA ████ ████ SiZE....[ 98,99 MB SUPPLiER[ TEAM OMA ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. T R A C K L i S T .···. █▓███ ■ ████ ████ · ▄▓███▓ ▓███▓▄ · ████ █████ ▄▄▓█▀▀▀│ ▓ ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ NR. TRACK. TiME. ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ ████ 01 Full Grown Man 03:47 ████ ████ 02 Twirling in the Middle 03:48 ████ ████ 03 Jealous Boy 02:44 ████ ████ 04 Young Reader 03:32 ████ ████ 05 Beep Boop Computers 02:43 ████ ████ 06 Muck (Very Human Features) 04:39 ████ ████ 07 When the Little Choo Choo Train Toots His Little 01:41 ████ ████ Horn ████ ████ 08 How to Be a Confidante 04:42 ████ ████ 09 Living in the Future 02:46 ████ ████ 10 Tales of a Visionary Teller 02:39 ████ ████ 11 The Sound of Communism 02:28 ████ ████ 12 Blame Me 04:09 ████ ████ 13 Appropriate Emotions 03:31 ████ ████ ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ ████ ████ TOTAL: 43:09 ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. R E L E A S E N O T E S .···. █▓███ ■ ████ ████ · ▄▓███▓ ▓███▓▄ · ████ █████ ▄▄▓█▀▀▀│ ▓ ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ ████ https://play.qobuz.com/album/xh068uwqw8k2b ████ ████ ████ ████ The Bug Club are back, again, for their annual ████ ████ appointment at the garage rock makersÆ market, ████ ████ where theyÆre flogging yet another pedigree ████ ████ record. ████ ████ ████ ████ LP number four, Very Human Features, arrives ████ ████ June 13, hot on the heels of the bandÆs first ████ ████ Sub Pop release, 2024Æs 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 ManÆs Walled Garden to its non- ████ ████ existent rafters. Then shows across the US in ████ ████ those venues us Brits tend to hear about and ████ ████ thatÆs as far as we get. This record gives the ████ ████ band an excuse to continue their never-ending ████ ████ tour and feed their baying fans, engorged and ████ ████ expectant thanks to this bandÆs relentless ████ ████ record-releasing hot streak, a new batch of ████ ████ typically playful, riff-laden, smart Bug Club ████ ████ Tunes. ████ ████ ████ ████ But first, a standalone single, because thatÆs ████ ████ how things are done here. ôHave you ever been ████ ████ to Wales?ö, asks the band in ôHave U Ever Been ████ ████ 2 Wales.ö If not, why not? ItÆs good. A new, ████ ████ discordant national anthem, if they didnÆt ████ ████ 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, ████ ████ itÆs 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. ████ ████ ████ ████ Personally, I hate it when an unnecessary ████ ████ personal opinion is inserted where itÆs not ████ ████ needed - band bios, for example - in order to ████ ████ offload an uninteresting individual hot take. ████ ████ Maybe thatÆs why this stuff works: thankfully, ████ ████ 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 ôBeep Boop ████ ████ Computersö vocalists Sam (also on guitar) and ████ ████ Tilly (on bass) swap between ôIös, ômyös and ████ ████ ôweös as if there isnÆt any difference between ████ ████ the lot, all the while skewering interpersonal ████ ████ relationships and experiences in a glorious, ████ ████ glam rock dismantling of the human aspects the ████ ████ albumÆs title references. Staying on topic, ████ ████ ôHow to Be a Confidanteö 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-infused ████ ████ belter. ████ ████ ████ ████ ItÆs no surprise that, in poking fun at the ████ ████ familiar, the humour is by track two turned ████ ████ inwards and itÆs The Bug Club themselves in ████ ████ their own firing line. In ôTwirling in the ████ ████ Middle,ö after taking a detour to insult both ████ ████ airport-littering spy-fiction writer Andy McNab ████ ████ and the collective authors of the Bible, Sam ████ ████ and Tilly sing, ôdid you think this was over, ████ ████ cos weÆre just getting started.ö A reference to ████ ████ their prolific output perhaps - this is the ████ ████ fourth LP since 2022, not to mention all the ████ ████ EPs and standalone odds and ends, after all. ████ ████ Then they twist the knife further, hari-kari ████ ████ style, when they raise eyebrows at their own ████ ████ tempo change (ôare we doing the rocksteady?ö) ████ ████ and then add ôjust when youÆre ready for this ████ ████ to be over, weÆll start playing solosö before ████ ████ doing exactly that. And itÆs a proper solo too ████ ████ - they always are. ItÆs a rollercoaster ████ ████ unpicking of whatever-it-is The Bug Club do, ████ ████ while at the same time building on the work ████ ████ done in previous albums and presenting us with ████ ████ layers of creativity piled up atop one another. ████ ████ ████ ████ Sam and Tilly, combined. ThereÆs a name for ████ ████ that - and itÆs tempting to think that they ████ ████ might be, given all the joking around. But the ████ ████ multi-dimensional nature to The Bug Club is ████ ████ what makes Very Human Features just as ████ ████ relistenable as their previous work. ôJealous ████ ████ Boy,ö ôAppropriate Emotionsö and ôMuck (Very ████ ████ Human Features)ö all lend the LP a more ████ ████ poignant tone. The first tackles expectations ████ ████ and comparisons, with a loud-quiet-loud ████ ████ structure reflecting the ups-and-downs and ████ ████ outbursts unavoidable in frustration and anger. ████ ████ ôAppropriate Emotionsö manages to be deeply ████ ████ relatable while making its singers sound about ████ ████ as removed from the human experience as ████ ████ possible - perhaps thatÆs why itÆs relatable. ████ ████ And ôMuck (Very Human Features)ö combines some ████ ████ of the folkier and spoken-word elements of ████ ████ album two, Rare Birds: Hour of Song, to ████ ████ ruminate on oneÆs place in the world. ████ ████ ████ ████ Initially comprising the songwriting core of ████ ████ Sam Willmett (vocals/guitar) and Tilly Harris ████ ████ (vocals/bass) with Dan Matthew (drums), The Bug ████ ████ Club started plying their trade in 2016. They ████ ████ were signed by UK label Bingo Records in Autumn ████ ████ 2020 and first single ôWe DonÆt Need Room For ████ ████ LovinÆö was released in February 2021, followed ████ ████ by the EP Launching Moondream One. It quickly ████ ████ established The Bug Club as the tongue-in-cheek ████ ████ and live-focused antidote to the previous ████ ████ yearÆs penned-in pandemic drudgery. BBC 6 ████ ████ MusicÆs Marc Riley was an early champion. ████ ████ ████ ████ Pure Particles followed, whose vinyl release ████ ████ included a board game brimming with cult ████ ████ references. Fed up with the conventional ████ ████ approach they then released ôIntelectualsö: a ████ ████ standalone track that was actually a five-track ████ ████ æsong suiteÆ like some kind of streaming- ████ ████ model-snubbing, Telecaster-bashing answer to ████ ████ Bach. Highbrow musos took a lyrical beating for ████ ████ the ages. Second standalone release ôTwo ████ ████ Beautiesö marked release number two for 2022 ████ ████ and built up to the appearance of debut album ████ ████ Green Dream in F# by October. The following ████ ████ January they decided to pull their fingers out, ████ ████ get some disguises and support themselves on ████ ████ tour as Mr AnywayÆs Holey Spirits. A live album ████ ████ documented this, then they got abstract with ████ ████ titles and put out picture disc Picture This!. ████ ████ By the autumn of 2023 it was time for forty- ████ ████ seven track, poetry-infused double album Rare ████ ████ Birds: Hour of Song. ████ ████ ████ ████ During a trip to America they caught the eye of ████ ████ Sub Pop, just in time to get them on board to ████ ████ serve up a beefy slab of garage-punk on On the ████ ████ Intricate Inner Workings of the System, gaining ████ ████ an appropriately beefed-up stateside following ████ ████ in the process. The partnership proved ████ ████ fruitful, and with Sup Pop firmly in The Bug ████ ████ Club club they got cracking on Very Human ████ ████ Features. An assured and endlessly witty ████ ████ whirlwind of literary, self-referential, good- ████ ████ humoured rock ænÆ roll, the new record sees the ████ ████ band riding their ever-swelling wave of ████ ████ popularity as if itÆs a quick whizz around the ████ ████ Caldicot Aldi carpark on a pair of ████ ████ rollerskates. Long may it continue. ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. G R O U P .···. █▓███ ■ ████ ████ · ▄▓███▓ ▓███▓▄ · ████ █████ ▄▄▓█▀▀▀│ ▓ MAiL: [email protected] ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ █▀ ▀██▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██▀ ▀█ ██▄██▀ ▀██▄██ ████▀ The only thing that really matters is music!!! ▀████ ▀██▓ ▓██▀ ▀██▓▄ ▄▓██▀ .▀ │ ▀▀██▄▓▄ .···. 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