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The Bug Club - Very Human Features - Import CD
The Bug Club - Very Human Features - Import CD
CD
Rock
Alternative/Indie
June 13, 2025
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Catalog No.: SPCD1683
JAN/ISBN: 98787168327
Number of Discs: 1
Country/Region of Manufacture: Import
Credits:
The Bug Club
Description:
Welsh rockers the Bug Club split their fourth album, Very Human Features, fairly evenly between experimenting with wild sounds and reframing rock & roll basics. The band grew out of high school friendships, and they kicked into high gear once they started releasing their music in 2021. Since then, theyve moved quickly through modes of garage rock blasting, short-and-sweet punk outbursts, and tuneful Kinks-informed pop tunes, releasing a new full-length album at least once a year and touring nonstop. Very Human Features captures the Bug Club settling into their vision, one of a band who can switch directions on a dime and still keep a consistent thread going when the songs start going to weird places. The record begins (somewhat deceptively) with a short bit of electric guitar running through some reflective blues riffing before the band explodes into "Full Grown Man." As there have been on earlier albums, this track includes hints of 2000s indie rock influence. Sam Willmetts vocals sound like Ray Davies borrowed the mic Julian Casablancas used for the first two Strokes albums, and the songs structure shifts dynamically from segments of overdriven, crashing drums and shouty dual vocals to minimal quiet parts. Its one of many tunes on Very Human Features where the group conveys both urgency and restraint. "Jealous Boy" has a similar approach with far hookier results, moving quickly from melodic falsetto verses to seething, anthem-like choruses. Its an instantly exciting and memorable track, simple and effective in the tradition of all the great garage pop that came before it, and over in two minutes and 40 seconds. There are abrupt left turns like "Muck," a demented space-age acoustic detour that sounds like a Man Who Sold the World-era Bowie outtake, and "Living in the Future," a song that zigzags between its multiple parts almost quicker than they can happen, evoking Devo one second and Sparks the next. The Bug Club do a great job of catching their breath between their more outlandish songs, always returning to straightforward rockers like "Blame Me" or the more complexly arranged but just as immediate album standout "Beep Boop Computers." Very Human Features gets more involved and goes to different places than previous albums from the Bug Club, but it drives its songs home by keeping energy in the forefront. ~ Fred Thomas
Tracklisting:
1.Full Grown Man2.Twirling in the Middle3.Jealous Boy4.Young Reader5.Beep Boop Computers6.Muck (Very Human Features)7.When the Little Choo Choo Train Toots His Little Horn8.How to Be a Confidante9.Living in the Future10.Tales of a Visionary Teller11.The Sound of Communism12.Blame Me13.Appropriate Emotions
1.Full Grown Man
2.Twirling in the Middle
3.Jealous Boy
4.Young Reader
5.Beep Boop Computers
6.Muck (Very Human Features)
7.When the Little Choo Choo Train Toots His Little Horn
8.How to Be a Confidante
9.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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