Rising Dublin band Basht. are today sharing new single ‘Terror TV’, the latest song to be revealed from their upcoming debut album Poor Advice, out 9th October via LAB Records.
‘Terror TV’ follows recent singles ‘Keira Knightley‘ and ‘Perfume‘, which set the pace for Poor Advice with their looming atmospherics, intoxicating vocals and pitch-black subject matter. On ‘Terror TV’ the band blasts through a lightning-quick post-punk sprint to tell a story of the modern day horrors we’re confronted with each time we look at our screens.
Vocalist and guitarist Jack Leavey comments on the new single: “Terror TV is about trying to make sense of what we’ve been watching unfold on our screens over the past few years. It’s about the endless loop of tit-for-tat conflicts, the footage that blurs together numbing our sensitivity, and how quickly the ground seems to shift under our feet. The song looks at how fickle politics feels right now with alliances flipping, narratives changing overnight, and ordinary people caught in the middle trying to process it all in real time and the exhaustion of watching.”
Basht. have earned themselves a devoted fanbase in the run up to their debut album, 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.
Produced by Ali Chant (Dry Cleaning, Perfume Genius, PJ Harvey), 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.
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
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
Sep 25 – Gathering Sounds Festival, Stockholm, SE
Oct 27 – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham, UK – LOW TICKETS
Oct 28 – Art School, Glasgow, UK – LOW TICKETS
Oct 29 – Gorilla, Manchester, UK – SOLD OUT
Oct 30 – KOKO, London, UK – LOW TICKETS
Nov 07 – Button Factory, Dublin, IE – LOW TICKETS
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