Basht. Release debut album Poor AdviceOut now on LAB Records
Watch the video for the album’s title track HERE
Headline tour dates on sale now
Instore performances + UK festivals + headline tour dates underway
Basht. | Photo credit: Patricia Rosingana
Praise for Basht. and debut album Poor Advice
“fittingly heavy, impressively succinct and leaving little to the imagination as it lays the failings of the church, the state and society bare.” – Clash ★★★★
“the kind of sound that hits your stomach as much as your ears.” – Dork
“emotionally weighty” – Line of Best Fit
“a band in glorious revolt, fired up and feisty” – MOJO ★★★★
“Tumbling riffs and crashing waves of guitar sit at the richer, more measured end of the record, marking [‘Kids Vs Guns’ as] one of the band’s most direct songs yet.” – Notion
“A concept album exploring societal power dynamics, their long-awaited debut album is a testament to the band’s lyrical and instrumental growth over the years as well as the importance of making a statement in the current climate” – So Young
“like those mid-tempo Pixies classics that sound like they’ve just fallen into a table.” – The New Cue
“underneath [Keira Knightley’s] hooky lines is something much darker and more reflective, setting up a more ambitious side of the band” – Wonderland
Basht. today release 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.”
Hear debut album Poor Advice HERE
Watch the video for the album’s title track ‘Poor Advice’ below.
More about Basht.’s debut album Poor Advice
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).
See Basht. live on the following dates
Tickets available here
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
Basht. – Poor Advice album artwork