The third tune from Leeds outfit Bathing Fits is now out there 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 12 months. 4 characters stood in entrance of the early arrivals and made a few of us in attendance really feel we had been watching one of the best leisure out there anyplace on this planet at that specific second. Let’s not leap to conclusions simply but we thought, they could by no means come again, bands can generally disappear as quick as they arrive. Go away it a number of months earlier than getting in for a second opinion, they might return and be garbage…….
Not Bathing Fits although.
These persons are leaping on trains and buses to go to the venues the nation has to supply for these of us who take pleasure in greater than only a pint after we exit within the evenings. Over half a dozen exhibits 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 must be seen and why patronising small venues must be visited and why you don’t should be paying a month’s purchasing finances to be entertained.
Freaks, a dwell favorite that ‘appears like a caught document’ in line with the extra ‘critical minded’ music staff we generally cross paths with is without doubt one of the most enjoyable tunes anybody has launched up to now this 12 months in line with not less than certainly one of us. The ‘caught document’ the doubters are referring to is Estelle’s ‘Freak’ with added Bathing Fits chaotic, hypnotic, superb noise added together with a heavy nosebleed beat and vocals pushed by the band’s vocalist/dwell 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 truly hearken to this.
And hearken to this it’s best to.
Recorded with Benny Howell – AKA Leeds/Berlin producer DJ Subaru – the observe comprises a punchy beat, a rowdy bass line , some refined guitars that piece via the mayhem that ends in making you’re 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 some other band you possibly can have the pleasure of seeing dwell 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 dwell, you’ll not be disillusioned and you’ll not remorse your determination.
That is Freak by Bathing Fits and it’s one of the best observe a few of us will hear all 12 months.
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 Conflict may be discovered at his writer’s archive. You may also discover Keith on Fb Instagram and Bluesky
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