BADBADNOTGOOD - Mid SpiralAt the start of 2024, BADBADNOTGOOD were brimming with new creative energy. Having just come off a run of one off international tour dates and a series of sessions for projects with artists Daniel Cesar, Charlotte Day Wilson, reggie, Baby Rose and Turnstile, the Canadian trio of Al Sow, Chester Hansen and Leland Whitty were eager to get back into the studio to simply create. The trio called on some of their closest friends and collaborators,

Emotional Mugger

Michael Head and The Red Elastic Band as he plays out flickering scenes from his life on new album

using heart palpitating rhythms and absurdist

has developed into a truly original songwriter with her own canon of haunted psychedelia

groove-locked drum set to the mix

UK first pressing 1972

Orange Zero (single)

The title track is sheer hell as Smith abandons music altogether

no racks of hardware

'Sunbathing Animal' applies the same layered thoughts and sprawling noise to more cerebral

searches for solace in the arms of another: ‘My Dear there’s so much to be done / I never finished what I start am / I’m losing / I should be rushing out the door

It makes me explore a lot of human truths and feelings that we should not shy away from