BASHT.
BASHT. release debut album 'Poor Advice' and share video for its title track, out now via LAB Records.
Last week, Basht. released their debut album Poor Advice on LAB Records, ahead of an extensive run of UK instore performances and signings, festival appearances, as well as UK and Ireland headline tour dates.
With a string of singles from the album ('Kids Vs Guns', 'Terror TV', 'Keira Knightley' and 'Perfume') all receiving airplay across BBC 6 Music, Radio 1, Radio X and more, Basht.'s debut album Poor Advice arrives draped in looming atmospherics, intoxicating vocals, confronting pitch-black subject matter.
Whether discussing the genocide in Palestine, the influence of the Catholic church, the fragility of treasured relationships, or media distrust, a kind of quiet patience murmurs at the core of Basht., the band only showing their hand when the right moment presents itself. Their gift is turning the reflective and emotionally heavy into the sprawling and powerful.
Poor Advice (produced by Ali Chant (Dry Cleaning, Perfume Genius, PJ Harvey) is Basht.'s opening gambit. They are just getting started.
Guitarist and vocalist Jack Leavey comments on the single 'Poor Advice':
"The final track off the album deals with the struggles of living in a world of temptation and overindulgence, the poor advice we give ourselves and hear from others.
Wanting to be better every morning, but falling short. It offers a glimmer of hope that reassures us that there is a light to get us through darker times."
Ireland also has a darker history, shaped by the strong influence of the Catholic Church over private life, particularly in cases of unplanned pregnancy - where young couples were often pressured into marriage to preserve respectability and avoid shame.
These unions were not always based on love or readiness, but on moral expectation and social control, with alternatives like single parenthood heavily stigmatised, especially for women. This song reflects that reality, capturing how personal lives were shaped by external pressures, where duty could outweigh desire and a single moment could determine the course of an entire future.
Vocalist and guitarist Jack Leavey comments:
"Poor Advice is a bruising concept album that traces the tangled wires between power and those crushed under it.
Through 10 tracks, it maps the old dance between church and state in Ireland, where pulpits and governments traded sermons for policy and shaped a generation with guilt, silence, and obedience.
It then pulls that thread into the present, following how moral authority has been outsourced to boardrooms and barracks, with the military industrial complex running like a grim metronome: conflict brewed, weapons sold, grief managed, contracts renewed.
Poor Advice is the title because it’s all the counsel handed down from above: keep your head down, say your prayers, trust the deal."
Basht. are: Jack Leavey (vocals, guitar), Lughaidh Armstrong-Mayock (lead guitar), Ryan McClelland (drums) and Louis Christle (bass).
Photo by Patricia Rosingana
Live dates
Oct 09 - Rough Trade East, London, UK
Oct 10 - Resident Records, Brighton, UK
Oct 11 - Rough Trade, Bristol, UK
Oct 12 - Rough Trade, Nottingham, UK
Oct 13- Jacaranda Baltic, Liverpool, UK
Oct 14 - Wax & Beans, Bury, UK
Oct 15 - ASSAI, Glasgow, UK
Oct 16 - ASSAI, Edinburgh, UK
Oct 17 - NBHD Festival, Manchester, UK
Oct 18 - Castle & Falcom (w/ Jacaranda Records), Birmingham, UK
Oct 19 - Headrow House (w/ Crash Records), Leeds, UK
Oct 20 - Independent, Sunderland, UK
Oct 21- Foundry (w/ Bear Tree), Sheffield, UK
Oct 23 - Mutations Festival, Brighton, UK
Oct 27 - Rescue Rooms, Nottingham, UK - LOW TICKETS
Oct 28 - Art School, Glasgow, UK - SOLD OUT
Oct 29 - Gorilla, Manchester, UK - SOLD OUT
Oct 30 - KOKO, London, UK - LOW TICKETS
Nov 07 - Button Factory, Dublin, IE - SOLD OUT
Nov 11 - Empire, Belfast, NI
Nov 18 - M for Montreal Festival, Montreal, CAN
Tickets available here
Buy Debut Album Poor Advice here
