The Guru Guru Reveal Video For New Single ‘Saint-Tropez’ Released 4th July 2023
“Their fiendish blend of rock metamorphosizes every time you think you’ve got them sussed” - PROG
“Bizarre, psychotic...a live show renowned for its volatility” - Bandcamp
“Eccentric, genre-defying, and very engaging” - Kerrang! Magazine
“Layers of colliding manic intensity” - Louder Than War
“Hasselt-based psych-rockers” - The Quietus
The Guru Guru Reveal Video For New Single ‘Saint-Tropez’ Released 4th July 2023
Watch the video - https://youtu.be/wg1mOuDsRYY
Stream and share - https://bfan.link/sainttropez
Reveal Details & Launch Preorders For New Album Make (Less) Babies
Released 27th October 2023 via Humus Records & A Tant Rêver Du Roi Records
Album presave - https://bfan.link/make-less-babies
Preorder - https://theguruguru.bigcartel.com/
Burn It Down + ArcTanGent Festival Appearances + September 2023 London Headline
Belgian alt-rock band The Guru Guru are pleased to reveal the official video for their tense, melodic new single ‘Saint-Tropez’ which is released on 4th July 2023 on all good streaming services.
The track is the latest to be 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, with the band revealing the artwork and tracklist today.
The album is available to preorder now: https://theguruguru.bigcartel.com/
Commenting on the track, which takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the effects of the cost of living crisis on the super rich, vocalist Tom “the Bomb” Adriaenssens says: “What if the super rich had money problems? Prices go up, what consequences does it have for them? I was born in a warm and wealthy home, at the ‘right’ place, at the ‘right’ time. I’m just very lucky. Privileged. I always try to remain aware of that.”
“One way to do so is to always try and imagine what other people’s lives are like. What are their dreams? What are their worst fears? What keeps them up at night? Is the grass greener on their side? I’m sure I’m not the only person in the world who does this mental exercise. Nonetheless I feel that many people get alienated from reality, partially due to the new media. Got enough money? Buy everything you need. Your life will never be perfect, though. That’s what these lyrics try to illustrate.”
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.
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. Lead single ‘Lotta Tension’ was released earlier this year and received early support from PROG Magazine, Noizze, Bring The Noise, Soundsphere Magazine, and more.
Recently gracing the stage at PORTALS festival in London, the band will be appearing at Burn It Down and ArcTanGent Festival in the UK later this year, with further live dates to be announced (see below for listings).
Further live dates and album details TBA.
Live Dates:
17 Aug - ArcTanGent Festival - Bristol
08 Sep - Burn It Down Festival - Torquay
09 Sep - Signature Brew - London
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.
