| Belgian alt-rock band The Guru Guru are delighted to announce that their new album Make (Less) Babies will be released on 27th October 2023 via Swiss label Hummus Records in collaboration with French label A Tant Rêver Du Roi Records.To celebrate the news, the quintet have released a video for lead single ‘Lotta Tension’ which is released 30th May 2023 on all good streaming services.The band will be playing PORTALS, Burn It Down and ArcTanGent Festival in the UK this year, with further live dates to be announced (see below for listings).Commenting on the track, vocalist Tom “the Bomb” Adriaenssens says: “This is a song about performance pressure. Too many choices, possibilities, FOMO, constant streams of media—we’ve all experienced the challenges of a world that changes too fast. The tension in your neck or in your shoulders is often the only indicator of being overstressed. The cause of stress building up is much harder to pinpoint. I tried to put into words the causes and feelings that accompany the tension.”“Most musicians have a weird relationship with stress because a lot of the time it’s what drives us to be creative. Lots of top athletes don’t speak of stress, they use the word ‘drive’ instead. We need tension and stress in our lives, but we need to be more aware of it. Treat the disease, not the symptoms—something like that.”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.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.Further live dates and album details TBA.Live Dates:27 May – Ramsgate Music Hall – Ramsgate 28 May – PORTALS Festival – London 17 Aug – ArcTanGent Festival – Bristol 18 Sep – Burn It Down Festival – Torquay |
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