The Bug Club are back, again, for their annual appointment at the garage rock makers market, where theyre flogging yet another pedigree record. LP number four, Very Human Features, arrives hot on the heels of the bands first Sub Pop release, 2024s On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System.

This record – a new batch of typically playful, riff-laden, smart Bug Club tunes – gives the band an excuse to continue their never-ending tour and feed their baying fans, engorged and expectant thanks to this bands relentless record-releasing hot streak. Have you ever been to Wales?, asks the band in the albums lead single, Have U Ever Been 2 Wales. If not, why not? Its good. A new, discordant national anthem, if they didnt already have a decent harmonious one. Oh, to be from a country where national pride is something other than the mark of a to