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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 delighted to announce their debut album Poor Advice, a headline show and lead single, ‘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."

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