Wilds

Green Glass

Bruising formed late last year after singer and guitarist Naomi Baguley spotted Ben Lewis wearing a Perfect Pussy t-shirt in a Leeds nightclub. Bonding over a mutual love of all things fuzzy, they began messaging voice memos from their phones back and forth until, finally, they got together in the same room and started writing some songs. This is one of them.

Self-recorded in their bedrooms in Hyde Park, Leeds, 'Can't You Feel' is pretty much the epitome of what Bruising want to do - fuzzy pop with big hooks, riddled with earworm guitar riffs and led by aloof-yet-infectious dream-clad vocals. 

'Can't You Feel' is taken from the upcoming Beech Coma compilation, Vol. 3. Featuring exclusive new music from the likes of Jr., Thalassocracy and bare pale, the compilation will be released 9th March 2015 on ltd red cassette, t-shirt bundle and digital download - pre-order from http://beechcoma.bandcamp.com/. More details will be revealed soon.

Buy 'Vol. 3'

Bruising - Can't You Feel

can i taste your lips? will your boyfriend care? 
can i run my fingers through your curly hair?

in my eyes, in my eyes, in my eyes 
love you all the time

i was a junkie for the past 
i was always turned around and staring back

in my eyes, in my eyes, in my eyes 
love you all the time

it's a consequence of love 
it rips your heart... makes you wanna die 
if love is a drug, then i don't prescribe

you're the girl that got away... the empty void 
the soul i can't replace 
my mama taught me better, i never shoulda lied

in my eyes, in my eyes, in my eyes 
love you all the time

Love You All The Time

Lost
Alone
Sadness
Known
But saw you then
Brought lights, we begin

Forever
Heart
Rescued life
Free soul
With your love
By, my, by my side

Shelter love
Through ups & downs
Storms hit
Our hands
Go round, round and round

Peace
With you
Share our dreams
Love won't dim
Nor fall apart at the seams

Forever
Heart
Rescued life
Free soul
With your love
By, my, by my side, my side

Forever
Heart
Rescued life
Free soul
With your love
By, my, by my side

Shelter love
Through ups & downs
Storms hit
Our hands
Go round, round and round

Peace
With you
Share our dreams
Love won't dim
Nor fall apart at the seams

Forever
Heart
Rescued life
Free soul
With your love
By, my, by my side, my side

Face
Sing
In, In my heart
Our love will start
Let's navigate 
And chart

Forever
Heart
Rescued life
Free soul
With your love
By, my, by my side, by my side, by my side

By my side

Forever Heart (Reprise)

I feel, I'm feeling something
I feel, I feel I'm burning for you
I feel, I feel I'm yearning for you

I want you to take me back to the night we met
Right when you touched me where hands can't
Now you get too close but you don't even touch
Standing right there, like you don't know what it does
Your eyes are screaming all the words not said (Girl, I)

Yearn for you, burn for you
Yearn for you, burn for you
(Your voice, your eyes, your hands, your lips)
(Your skin, your touch, do you feel this?)
Yearn for you (Your voice, your eyes, your hands, your lips)
(Your skin, your touch, do you feel this?)
Burn for you (Your voice, your eyes, your hands, your lips)
(Your skin, your touch, do you feel this?)

D—Do you feel this?

It takes me back to a dream I had
Your heart wide opеn, drowning in regret
Now you get too closе but you don't even touch
Standing right there, like you don't know what it does
Butterflies are flying away from my hair (Girl, I)

Yearn For You (Light)

JR48A

Cherry Tree b/w Roses

Cherry Tree

From Deeper's Sophomore LP "Auto-Pain" out March 27th on Fire Talk.

Buy: https://ffm.to/deeperband

What do you do when pain blots out joy? How do you learn to take care of yourself? What happens when the things you think are helping end up doing the most harm? 'Auto-Pain' is the Sophomore album from Deeper, a record that finds the band embracing open space, using synths to create shadows where bricks of guitars once would’ve blocked out the sun. The group — singer and guitarist Nic Gohl, bassist Drew McBride, and drummer Shiraz Bhatti — were all graduates of Chicago’s rich DIY scene who came together around their love of Wire, Devo, Gang of Four, and Television. While the new record is still within the Great Lakes post-punk tradition of their debut, the album isn’t as insular as its predecessor; it’s less interested in pile-driving and more willing to dwell in liminal spaces. Guitars enter the picture precisely, locked bass grooves propel things forward. Drummer Shiraz Bhatti, who is half-Pakistani and half-Native American, embraced the drumming patterns he’d heard growing up at pow-wows, channeling the anxieties of his heritage into his playing and keeping the group grounded when they switch into all-out percussive attack. The result is an album both more nuanced and catchy.Auto-Pain represents the constant wave of depression felt by many in everyday life. Stemmed from Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’, Auto-Pain is a concept meant to be an inverse to soma, a pill in the book which makes everything numb. The idea of auto-pain is to epitomize the desire to return to a connection with thoughts and clarity, which comes at the expense of feeling everything simultaneously. The album artwork features the now-demolished Prentice Women’s Hospital in Chicago capturing the band’s rounded-off brutalism, and the album title appears in Urdu, a nod to drummer Shiraz Bhatti’s Pakistani heritage. The record was recorded and mixed by Chicago scene luminary Dave Vetraino (Lala Lala, Dehd) and mastered at Chicago Mastering by Greg Obis (Ne-Hi, Melkbelly).

Deeper - The Knife

Fire Talk