Premiere: Bruising - "Think About Death"

Bruising are one of those improbable bands who have somehow managed to make 100% fantastic music despite only being together for less than a year. It’s almost as if, when singer/guitarist Naomi Baguley approached guitarist Ben Lewis at a club because he was wearing a Perfect Pussy t-shirt, their sonic fate was pre-written.

We're premiering their new jam "Think About Death" below, which takes all the things Bruising are good at - luxuriating melodies, big riffs, more big riffs - and pushes them to even greater heights. There's a little bit of Pains of Being Pure at Heart in here, a big helping of slacker rock influence (see: The Lemonheads, Teenage Fanclub, et al) but mostly it's just a certified feel-good banger that stands on it's own two feet, grabs your hands, and forces you to get up and dance like your mum did when she got pissed at your sweet sixteenth.

"Think About Death" is taken from the second installment of DIY label Art is Hard's Family Portrait series, which gathers four bands with a similar vibe together and sets their music to wax for the first time. Bruising will appear alongside Fruit Bomb, Living Hour and Abattoir Blues.

Family Portrait pt. II will be released on April 26 via Art is Hard. Pre order here.

Catch them on tour in May:

Sat 2nd - Live At Leeds Festival
Sun 3rd - Handmade Festival

w/ Abattoir Blues and Fruit Bomb
Wed 6th - Nation Of Shopkeepers Leeds
Thu 7th - Fallow Cafe Manchester
Fri 8th - Green Door Store Brighton
Sat 9th - OBL London
Sun 10th - Bungalows and Bears Sheffield

w/ Tuff Love
Wed 27th - Summerhall Edinburgh
Thu 28th - Daughtys Dundee
Fri 29th - Gold Flake Paint presents Glad Cafe Glasgow
Sat 30th - The Lemontree Aberdeen