The Guru Guru Share 'Making of Make (Less) Babies Album' Video Ahead of UK Headline Date
The Guru Guru Share 'Making of Make (Less) Babies Album’ Behind The Scenes Video
Watch the video - HERE
UK/EU Make (Less) Babies Headline Tour Begins This Month
London Headline Show On Sale Now
Tickets - HERE
New Album Make (Less) Babies Out Now via Humus Records & A Tant Rêver Du Roi Records on Ltd. Edition Vinyl
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Belgian art-rock band The Guru Guru are pleased to reveal a behind the scenes video from the studio sessions for their latest album Make (Less) Babies which is out now via Swiss label Humus Records in collaboration with French label A Tant Rêver Du Roi Records.
Kicking off their Make (Less) Babies 2024 Headline Tour this week in the Netherlands, the band will play a special one off UK headline date on 24th February at The Shacklewell Arms, London, with tickets on sale now (see below for full EU tour listings).
The band’s latest 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 in 2023 and the album received notable 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 in 2023, the band recently completed an extensive EU tour 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 out now
UK Live Dates:
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
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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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