Bugeye: This Ain’t A Love Track
Bugeye are again! After a few years away, they’ve a brand new single, This Ain’t A Love Track, a brand new label, a brand new album deliberate for 2026, and a tour deliberate too…
Frighteningly it’s been 5 years since Bugeye’s debut album Prepared Regular Bang was certainly one of Louder Than Warfare’s Prime 100 albums of 2020. Truthfully, the place has the time gone? Since then there was a remix album, Prepared Regular Remix, elevating funds for The Magpie Undertaking plus singles, 2022’s Indicators & Exits and Summer time In The Metropolis and 2023’s Dancing Out In The Darkish.
While they’ve not launched something not too long ago, the band have been holding busy, not least with members being concerned in Croydon’s multi-stage South London indie music pageant Cro Cro Land, which this yr featured numerous Louder Than Warfare favourites, together with Billy Nomates, Unfastened Articles, Keeley and Advantages to call just a few in addition to Bugeye themselves.
For those who’re not accustomed to the band, they’re a queer, electro, art-rock band from the aforementioned London borough, shaped in 2018 they describe themselves as sounding like, ‘If Debbie Harry, Jimi Hendrix, Kate Bush, and Keith Moon had been kidnapped by vegan aliens and bred, typically being tortured with scorching poky issues, within the pursuit of the final word rock & roll sound’… specifically fusing soiled guitars, disco-driven beats, scorching synths, and explosive bass riffs which then collide into irresistibly catchy hooks— the type that demand the dancefloor.
Talking of the brand new single, singer-songwriter Angela Martin says, “This Ain’t A Love Track is about calling out a narcissist who thinks the world revolves round them. It’s a pointy, sarcastic anti-love anthem that flips the breakup ballad on its head. As a substitute of longing or heartbreak, it delivers biting humor and uncooked honesty about dodging a poisonous relationship. It’s brutal, catchy, and unapologetically savage – it’s the sound of claiming what everybody else is simply too well mannered to.”
As talked about, the band have a brand new label, not too long ago becoming a member of Fightmilk, Coming Up Roses and Breakup Haircut on INH Data label (the INH allegedly standing for Insert Identify Right here), who will launch Bugeye’s second album in Could 2026. Talking of the brand new album, Angela enthuses, “This subsequent chapter is bursting with the most effective songs we’ve ever written – darkish, digital, uncooked, and laced with sarcasm and wit. Consider it as a punch within the intestine… however in the absolute best means. We will’t wait to get it on the market.”
Earlier than then although the five-piece supersonic energy chord punk mash up of Blondie Vs. Pixies will likely be on tour throughout the Winter months
TOUR DATES
06 Nov – Revolt, Brighton
14 Nov – Le Pub, Newport
20 Nov – Mr Wolfs, Bristol
22 Nov – The Pump, Trowbridge
28 Nov – The Garibaldi, Northampton
04 Dec – Document Junkee, Sheffield
12 Dec – The Pipeline, Brighton
13 Dec – The Grace, London
16 Jan – The Victoria, Birmingham
31 Jan – The Citadel, Manchester
06 Feb – The Grove, Nottingham
13 Feb – Poco Loco, Chatham
28 Feb – Daltons, Brighton
Discover Bugeye through their LinkTree
Photograph equipped by Angela Martin
All phrases by Iain Key. See his creator profile right here or discover him through his LinkTree
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