Basht. | Photo credit: Polocho |
Rising Dublin band Basht. are today unveiling their plans for debut album Poor Advice, which will be released on 9th October via LAB Records. Also shared today is the album’s lead single, ‘Perfume‘.
Basht. have earned themselves a devoted fanbase in the run up to their debut album announcement, in no small thanks to taking their knockout live show on tour with the likes of DEADLETTER, Everything Everything and Wunderhorse, and featuring at festivals including The Great Escape, Truck, Supersonic Block Party, Liverpool Sound City, Dot To Dot, Live at Leeds, and Other Voices. With 2025’s celebrated ‘Bitter and Twisted’ EP under their belts, the band are now sharing their first music of the year in the form of ‘Perfume’.
Produced by Ali Chant (Dry Cleaning, Perfume Genius, PJ Harvey), ‘Perfume’ arrives foreboding and introspective, all intoxicating vocals and pitch-black subject matter, quietly gestating before erupting to make good on the threat of its looming atmospherics. A kind of patience murmurs at the core of Basht., only showing their hand when the right moment presents itself. On ‘Perfume’ they turn the reflective and emotionally heavy into the sprawling and powerful.
Vocalist and guitarist Jack Leavey comments on the new single: “Perfume is about the relationship between father and son from the perspective of the son as he recounts his parents’ marriage falling apart.
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.”
Continuing about forthcoming debut album Poor Advice, he says: “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.”
Pre-save / pre-order Poor Advice HERE
Listen to ‘Perfume’ on streaming services here and share via YouTube below.
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
Apr 24 – Roisin Dubh Galway, IE
Apr 25 – Ulster Sports Club Belfast, UK, SOLD OUT
May 02 – Liverpool Sound City, Liverpool, UK
May 22 – Mi Ami Festival, Milan, IT
May 23 – NBHD Weekender, Warrington, UK
May 24 – Bearded Theory Derbyshire, UK
May 27 – Les Etoiles Paris, FR
May 28 – Ekko Utrecht, NL – SOLD OUT
May 29 – Vestrock Festival Hulst, NL
May 29 – Dauwpop Hellendoorn, NL
Jun 20 – TRNSMT, UK
Jul 02 – Rock Werchter, BE
Aug 09 – Boardmasters Festival Newquay, UK
Aug 29 – Rock N Roll Circus, Sheffield, UK
Aug 30 – Leeds Festival, Leeds, UK
Sep 05 – Zero Four Three Festival Maastrich, NE
