The Bug Club's "Every Single Muscle": A Review of the Welsh Duo's Sixth Album

Alex Robert Ross

9d ago· 3 min readenReview

75/100

Toasty

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Solid neighbourhood-bakery energy. Trustworthy and warm.

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A review of The Bug Club's sixth album "Every Single Muscle," which continues the Welsh duo's prolific output of oddball garage-pop. The album's cover art and lyrical themes focus on the human body's physicality, and the band has built a strong reputation through frequent transatlantic touring and a distinctive sound.

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The front cover of Every Single Muscle, the new album from smalltown Welsh duo The Bug Club, depicts a hypervascular cartoon man-bull launching into space.

With its eight pendulous nipples, surgically remodeled chin, and miles-long fleshy torso trailing grotesquely in its wake, the monster is a fitting mascot for an album whose gaze never falls far from the human body's folds, crevices, hanging-off bits.

This is The Bug Club's sixth album in four years, in which time they've crossed the Atlantic so often and built enough of a reputation behind their oddball garage-pop that they've signed to far

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