Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard return with new single ‘Therapy’
Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard | Photo Credit: Charlie Harris
Today, Cardiff-based four-piece Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard return with the announcement of their dark new single ‘Therapy’. The news comes closely on the heels of their recent single ‘Chew’, which was released earlier this year to widespread critical acclaim. The band have also announced a new 16-date headline UK tour for March.
Following on from their Welsh Music Prize nominated debut album ‘Backhand Deals’ in 2022, the band have been writing and recording at frontman and producer Tom Rees's Rat Trap studio, the room where Rees has previously recorded and produced tracks for emerging talent - Panic Shack, Do Nothing and The Bug Club. With the band having showcased new material live earlier this year along with recently releasing ‘Chew’, the new single ‘Therapy’ arrives as a further nod to the band’s move towards a heavier and disquieting sound.
The new single still carries the band’s the fast-paced energy and trademark ‘70s references from their earlier releases, but fuses it with heavy fuzz-drenched guitars, a crushing rhythm section, and fevered vocals delivering inward-facing lyrics about Rees’s views on therapy.
Speaking on the single, he says: "Not surprisingly I wrote Therapy after I had my head squeezed like a giant cyst and years and years of backlogged pus just started oozing out (“my father” this and “my mother” that). I was so impressed by how great I felt that I became a massive nuisance to everyone around me telling them they need to go to therapy - big “a person you kind of know telling you that you NEED to watch Breaking Bad” vibes - so this song was really an extension of that. More than anything it was a fun opportunity to be creative with imagery around feeling frustrated, and the freedom that came from getting the help to understand why."
Hear / share ‘Therapy’ here
The band – Rees, guitarist Zac White, drummer Ethan Hurst and Rees’ brother and bassist Eddie – have been going from strength-to-strength since releasing their debut EP ‘The Non-Stop’ in 2020. They’ve since made of end-of-year lists with NME, DIY, and Dork; earned plaudits from the likes of the Guardian, The Telegraph, MOJO, Uncut, Record Collector, The Needle Drop, The Independent, CLASH, The Line Of Best Fit, and So Young; and have amassed significant radio support with plays across worldwide radio, and live session appearances across BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, NPR, Radio X, and more.
Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard’s frenetic live sets have seen the band make fans in tourmates from The Magic Gang to Miles Kane and were set to support Noel Gallagher – another in a growing list of fans – at the Royal Albert Hall before the coronavirus struck. They’ve also performed widely across the festival circuit appearing at Glastonbury, Eurosonic, Latitude, All Points East, SXSW, and Green Man, and have toured extensively including a packed-out headline date at Scala. The band will go out on tour again next March hitting 16-dates across the UK, the tour will follow their show at Omeara in London on 7th November, where the band will continue to debut new material.
Full dates are as follows:
NOVEMBER 2023
04 – Brighton, Mutations Festival
07 – London, Omeara
FEBRUARY 2024
24th – Swansea, Swansea Arena House Party
MARCH 2024
01 - Oxford, Jericho Tavern
03 - Exeter, The Cavern
04 - Falmouth, Cornish Bank
07 - Chelmsford, Hot Box
08 - Ipswich, The Smokehouse
10 - Tunbridge Wells, Forum
12 - Milton Keynes, Craufurd Arms
13 - St Albans, The Horn
14 - Ramsgate, Music Hall
16 - Peterborough, Met Lounge
17 - Birmingham, Hare & Hounds
18 - Hull, Adelphi Club
20 - Stockton, Ku Bar
21 - Sunderland, Independent
25 - York, The Fulford Arms
26 - Clitheroe, The Swan & Royal
Tickets will go on sale at 10am GMT on November 1st - buy here
Selected press for Buzzard Buzzard:
Buzzard by name and buzzed by nature, this denim-loving quartet play good-times rock’n’roll,
- The Guardian
“Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard are intoxicating proof that they do make rock bands like they used to…”
- The Telegraph
“beautifully dreamy, Seventies-influenced rock”
- The Independent
"Spirited 32-minute entree to Welsh indie-glam insurgents… brief yet hugely entertaining debut… The Non-Stop feels wonderfully in-the-moment, thanks to frontman Tom Rees, whose mad-for-it charisma (explicitly modelled on The Hives' Howlin' Pelle Almqvist) and pungent ideas (see John Lennon Is My Jesus Christ) point to a Jarvis-style people's hero-in-waiting."
- MOJO
“Extremely good fun . . . Wonderfully big and bright . . . it’s fun, intoxicating and powered by pure feeling”
- NME
“‘Good riffs, good energy, good lead vocals, super catchy chorus... nice satire and social commentary, loving that, I think it’s very sharp and smart track all round.”
- The Needle Drop
“their reinvention of rock is certain to see them become your new firm faves asap.”
- DIY
“they're primed to be countless peoples' next favourite band”
- Dork
“love child of 70s eclecticism and jailbreaking rock ‘n’ roll”
- So Young
“the band tweaking sounds of yesteryear with enough swaggering individuality in their own right.”
– TLOBF
“a deliriously unkempt indie rock jammer with a heart of gold”
- CLASH
“Exciting and ever so promising Welsh rock four-piece Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard…. have proven themselves to be one of the most exciting new British bands…this is by far the most adventurous Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard have ever sounded.”
- Gigwise
"They're a great band. We're all big fans of them. I love this band, they play incredible positive music, I think the singer is incredibly sexy and I think they're the best thing to come out of Wales since Tom Jones"
- The Magic Gang on BBC Radio 1
“Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard, you won't forget that name in a hurry”
- Annie Mac on BBC Radio 1
"Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard know how to make a dance floor move, they know how to make the music erupt… What I love about Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard is they're ingrained in that glam rock feel but it feels so right and fresh. Huge fan of that"
- Jack Saunders on BBC Radio 1
"BBB proving there is still life in the riffage genre. Chugs along with an all-knowing sense of its rock and roll history I think but also knows where it wants to get to next. It's been a while since I smiled so much at a guitar solo.”
- Steve Lamacq on Hollywood Actors
