The Guru Guru Reveal Small Pond Live Session Video For ‘Make Less Babies’
The Guru Guru Reveal Small Pond Live Session Video For ‘Make Less Babies’
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New Album Make (Less) Babies Released 27th October 2023 via Humus Records & A Tant Rêver Du Roi Records on Ltd. Edition Vinyl
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Preorder - https://theguruguru.bigcartel.com/
Extensive EU Tour Dates w/ It It Anita, Birds In Row, Psychotic Monks, De Staat
+ 2024 London Headline Show On Sale Now
Tickets - HERE
Belgian art-rock band The Guru Guru are pleased to return with a riotous live performance video for their single ‘Make Less Babies’ which is out now on all good platforms.
With the session filmed at Small Pond Studios in Brighton, the track is taken from their new album Make (Less) Babies which will be released on 27th October 2023 via Swiss label Humus Records in collaboration with French label A Tant Rêver Du Roi Records.
The album is available to preorder now: https://theguruguru.bigcartel.com/
Commenting on the footage, vocalist Tom “the Bomb” Adriaenssens says: "We are so happy to release this Small Pond live session. Our new album Make (Less) Babies comes out this Friday (27 Oct), and this song is the title track. We hope you like it!"
The band’s forthcoming new album Make (Less) Babies was recorded by The Guru Guru at Farrm Studio, Hasselt with assistance from Jasper Vanden Bossche. The album was mixed by guitarist Emiel Van Den Abbeele and mastered by Laurens Grossen Mastering.
Early singles ‘Lotta Tension’, 'Saint-Tropez' and 'Make Less Babies' were released earlier this year and the album has received early support from Classic Rock Magazine, PROG Magazine, BUZZ Magazine, Noizze, Bring The Noise, Soundsphere Magazine, and airplay from John Kennedy at Radio X, plus BBC Stereo Underground, Amazing Radio, Total Rock and more.
The band have also enjoyed newfound streaming success for the singles from the album at home in Belgium on Spotify’s New Music Friday, Ruig & Riffs and Indie Goesting playlists, with Apple Music support on New In Rock, New Music Daily, ALT CTRL and The New Rock.
Happily dealing in deep express art rock since 2012, The Guru Guru combine feverishly angular guitars with off-kilter poly-rhythms, all complimented by Adriaenssens’ trademark erratic and unhinged vocals. While their influences are drawn from the likes of Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, The Mars Volta, SOULWAX, The Jesus Lizard, and Andy Kaufman, the indie-math/psycho-noise rulebooks are decidedly torn apart, resulting in turbulent songs that somehow seem to develop into wriggling earworms.
Gracing the stage at PORTALS, Burn It Down, and ArcTanGent Festival earlier this year, the band recently announced an extensive run of EU tour dates alongside French hardcore punks Birds In Row, Belgian noise rockers It It Anita, a sold out stint supporting Dutch alt-rock icons De Staat, and a slot with French post-punks The Psychotic Monks.
Tickets for their 24th February 2024 London headline show at The Shacklewell Arms on sale now.
New album Make (Less) Babies is released 27th October 2023
Live Dates:
27/10/23: La Cave Aux Poetes, Roubaix (FR) w/ It It Anita
28/10/23: Fri-Son, Humus fest, Fribourg (CH)
31/10/23: La Ferronnerie, Pau (FR)
01/11/23: Rise & Fall Festival, Niort (FR) w/ Birds In Row
02/11/23: Sortie 13, Pessac (FR)
03/11/23: Quai M, La Roche Sur Yon (FR) w/ Birds In Row
04/11/23: Le Florida, Agen (FR) w/ It It Anita
09/11/23: Farrm, Hasselt (BE)
10/11/23: L'Antre Peaux, Bourges (FR) w/ It It Anita
11/11/23: Le Ferrailleur, Nantes (FR) w/ Birds In Row
16/11/23: Chinastraat, Gent (BE)
01/12/23: Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers (FR)
02/12/23: Connexion Live, Toulouse (FR)
08/12/23: Fluor, Amersfoort (NL)
09/12/23: V11, Rotterdam (NL)
15/12/23: La Zone, Luik (BE)
16/12/23: Paul B, Massy (FR) w/ Psychotic Monks
24/02/24: Shacklewell Arms, London (UK) - tickets
Make (Less) Babies album tracklist:
1. Not awake (the baseballs)
2. Jack shit/jackpot
3. Lemon-aid, lemon-cello (bear dance)
4. Supply on demand (sunshinin' on my dinin')
5. Make less babies
6. In 2073 (plenty of other fish in the sea)
7. Saint-Tropez
8. Lotta tension
9. Oh, me (I can't complain)
10. Joke’s on you (under over)
The Guru Guru online:
https://theguruguru.com
https://www.facebook.com/THEGURUGURU
https://www.instagram.com/theguruguru
https://twitter.com/theguruguru
The Guru Guru are:
Tom Adriaenssens (Tom the Bomb) - singer
Siemon Theys - drums
Jan Viggria - guitar & backing vocal
Brent Mijnendonckx - bass
Emiel Van Den Abbeele - guitar & backing vocal
More info:
Building on the band's addictive formula, Make (Less) Babies leads listeners further down their twisted rabbit hole—loaded with stories from the road, it’s a savage critique of society and climate change, packed with controversy, social themes, humour and self-deprecation.
Having learned a lot from previous album sessions with producer Wouter Vlaeminck (Raketkanon, Kapitan Korsakov) and their recent EP, this time around the band took matters into their own hands and wrote, composed, rehearsed, recorded, produced and mixed everything themselves.
“Jan provided his studio in Hasselt, friends let us use some awesome gear, we rented an apartment in Hasselt for a week and we recorded the third album together live. We recorded all the instruments in 2 days,” says Adriaenssens of their approach to the new record. “Yoran—our live sound engineer—came over to help, along with a handful of other friends we work with. I think we can say that all these people who help us became our family. A family of people we’ve been working with for the past 10 years. And it feels good.”
Praised for their live performances, The Guru Guru are a must-see live act—with palpable, electric energy oozing from the stage, vocalist Tom the Bomb balances on the verge of theatrical psychosis. The band have made their mark playing across Europe sharing stages with the likes of BRUTUS, Raketkanon, Kapitan Korsakov, Birds in Row, as well as appearing at festivals such as ArcTanGent, Portals, MAMA festival, Ment, Monkey Week, Rock Herk, Sziget and Pukkelpop. They have played over 300 domestic and international shows in the last 6 years.
Watch The Video For Previous Single ‘Lotta Tension’
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Watch The Video For Previous Single ‘Saint-Tropez’
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Watch The Video For Previous Single ‘Make Less Babies’
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Latest Single ‘In 2073 (plenty of other fish in the sea)’ Out Now
Watch the video - https://youtu.be/Aky8x1tWgBU
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