Bathing Suits

“The UK’s most exciting new band” - The Line Of Best Fit

“You can’t pin Bathing Suits down, and nor should you want to.” - NME

‘a whole new dedication to the club, and to the humble guitar’. - So Young Magazine

Their debut EP, ‘KILL BATHING SUITS’, is out now via Underplay Recordings. Across five tracks recorded and produced by Benny Howell, AKA Leeds and Berlin-based DJ and producer DJ Subaru, the band move between the seven-minute noise-trance sprawl of ‘Empathy’, the battering feedback and big-beat propulsion of ‘I Can Be A Freak’, and the four-to-the-floor ferocity of ‘Swan Princess’. In September, Bathing Suits will support Bodega at London’s 100 Club before playing a headline show at Rough Trade East on September 16th. The show will celebrate the limited vinyl release of ‘KILL BATHING SUITS’. 

Born out of the DIY party scene in their Leeds hometown, Bathing Suits’ earliest rehearsals took place in the same basements as their homemade club nights: tiny spaces transformed by blaring PAs, rumbling subwoofers and elaborate lighting rigs. That environment remains central to the band’s sound, where live instrumentation is treated with the physicality and intensity of club music.

The band will then take the EP on the road for a run of in-store appearances and shows in Paris, Amiens, Nottingham and their hometown of Leeds. Their relentless live schedule continues into October when they join Man/Woman/Chainsaw on tour across the UK, including a show at London’s Electric Ballroom on October 7th. 

Bathing Suits’ reputation has grown rapidly through their feverish live performances and early releases, earning support from BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 6 Music, KEXP, Rolling Stone UK, Bandcamp, NME, DIY, So Young, COLD Magazine, Far Out, Louder Than War and more. Earlier this year, vocalist and live drum-machine operator Freyja Blevins was also photographed by Hedi Slimane as part of the celebrated photographer and designer’s ongoing portrait work.

Bathing Suits are the inaugural signing to Underplay Recordings, a new label venture
distributed exclusively in partnership with Virgin Music Group. With the Steve Strange Award secured, their debut vinyl pressing rapidly disappearing and a
new chapter already waiting in the wings, Bathing Suits are hurtling towards the end of the year as one of the UK’s most uncompromising and exhilarating new live bands.

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Age restriction: 14+ / U16s accompanied by an adult