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The Bug Club are back, again, for their annual appointment at the garage rock makers' market, where they're flogging yet another pedigree record. LP number four, Very Human Features, arrives hot on the heels of the band's first Sub Pop , 2024's On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System. That record saw the band continue their love affair with BBC Radio 6, start up a new one with KEXP thanks to a session with them, and crop up in the pages of the NME. Anything else from the bucket list? Oh yeah, festival slots including packing home ground Green Man's Walled Garden to it's non-existent rafters. Then shows across the US in those venues us Brits tend to only hear about. 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 band's relentless record-releasing hot streak.InchHave you ever been to Wales?Inch, asks the band in the album's lead single, InchHave U Ever Been 2 Wales.Inch If not, why not? It's good. A new, discordant national anthem, if they didn't already have a decent harmonious one. Oh, to be from a country where national pride is something other than the mark of a tosser. Starting as a classic, chugging chantalong, it's interrupted by what sounds like an alien choir before they let rip. Think Dinosaur Jr. With a job at the tourist board. And Welsh. Definitely Welsh.On Very Human Features The Bug Club have continued in their habit of presenting as a collective mind. Two-in-one. Rarely do you find a band with two creative forces that have such a singular, shared perspective, sense of humour and knack for a pop melody. In InchBeep Boop ComputersInch vocalists Sam (also on guitar) and Tilly (on bass) swap between InchIInchs, InchmyInchs and InchweInchs as if there isn't any difference between the lot, all
