Carolina Faruolo
BRUISING
Share ‘Honey‘
November tour with Los Campesinos! + headline show
February tour with Diet Cig
‘Emo Friends’ / ‘Honey’ AA Single due 20th November
via Beech Coma
Gearing up to hit the road with Los Campesinos! next week plus a headline show in London and February tour booked with Diet Cig (dates below), Bruising share‘Honey’, taken from their upcoming AA single.
Live dates:
18 November – Exchange, Bristol (SOLD OUT)*
19 November – Stereo, Glasgow (SOLD OUT)*
20 November – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds (SOLD OUT)*
21 November – Hope and Ruin, Brighton (SOLD OUT)*
22 November – Instore at Rough Trade West at 3pm
22 November – Scala, London (SOLD OUT)*
23 November – The Victoria, Dalston (free headline show)
Sat 9 January – Sheffield Bungalows and Bears **
Sun 10 January – Glasgow Broadcast **
Mon 11 January – Bristol Louisiana **
Tue 12 January – Old Blue Last DIY Hello 2016 **
* w/ Los Campesinos!
** w/ Diet Cig
Less than a year has passed since Naomi Baguley spotted Ben Lewis wearing a Perfect Pussy t-shirt in a Leeds nightclub and they began trading song ideas through phone voice memos. A first batch of ramshackle demos recorded in Lewis’ bedroom soon led to a sold-out debut show at Leeds’ Oporto, before Bruising began hosting a series of cult house parties in Hyde Park living rooms with the likes of Waxahatchee, Twin Peaks and Trust Fund. Word soon got out, and praise started coming in from the most unlikely of places –Andrew W.K, for instance and, in true fairy-tale style, Perfect Pussy’s own Meredith Graves.
Off the back of two stand-out contributions to compilations from the Beech Coma and Art Is Hard labels earlier this year, Bruising return with their debut single ‘Emo Friends’, with a re-recording of early demo ‘Honey’ making up the AA single. Now split between Berlin and Leeds as Baguley begins a year studying abroad, the band reconvened at Suburban Home Studios in Leeds to record the single with Hookworms’ MJ.
‘Emo Friends’ deals with the pains of helplessly watching both your own and your friends’ lives falling apart, and all that you can do to combat it is to have fun with them. Infectious guitar melodies contrast with Baguley’s softly layered cries of “I want to feel okay” before the song climaxes, in Lewis’ tongue-firmly-in-cheek words, “like the big smoocher hit at the end of an American teen movie circa 1999”. ‘Honey’, on the other hand, is a re-recording of the first song the duo wrote together, transformed from bedroom demo to straight up pop-punk hit. Baguley and Lewis try and out-do each other throughout, with floating vocals and ever-more venomous guitar lines thrown back and forth.
‘Emo Friends’ / ‘Honey’ is released 20th November on 7” vinyl and digitally via Beech Coma. The single is the first instalment of a new bi-monthly subscription series from the label, part-funded by Arts Council England. Pre-order the single and/or sign up to the Beech Coma Singles Club here.
“Bruising have been preventing me from careening into ennui… This kind of shit gives me hope.” – Pitchfork
“The pick of the bunch, a sugary rush of noisy Pixies guitars and singer Naomi Baguley’s soft, sweet and addictive vocals” – NME
“One of those improbable bands who have somehow managed to make 100% fantastic music despite only being together for less than a year” – Noisey
Channelling emotional turmoil through irresistible college rock riffs and fist-in-the-air choruses, their back catalogue is like a single-handed 2015 spin on the eternal feels of the American Pie soundtrack. – Noisey
“The best new guitar band in the country” – GoldFlakePaint
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