Very Human Features (CD)

The little Welsh duo that could, The Bug Club have been causing a stir with their ramshackle, melodic, indie-poppin' fuzzy fun since the dawn of the decade. After dropping the single Have You Ever Been 2 Wales ("Have you ever been to Wales? It's good, it's good!" goes the hook), the pairing of Sam Willmett (guitar, vocals) and Tilly Harris (bass, vocals) announced their brand new album Very Human Features. If you miss the olden days when songs could be catchy, silly, and rocking all at once, this is the new Sub Pop sensation for you. - Flying Out

The Bug Club are back, again, for their annual appointment at the garage rock makers’ market, where they’re flogging yet another pedigree record.

LP number four, Very Human Features, arrives hot on the heels of the band’s first Sub Pop release, 2024’s 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 Man’s Walled Garden to its non-existent rafters. Then shows across the US in those venues us Brits tend to hear about and that’s 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 band’s relentless record-releasing hot streak, a new batch of typically playful, riff-laden, smart Bug Club Tunes.

Tracklist:

1. Full Grown Man
2. Twirling in the Middle
3. Jealous Boy (02:39)
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