Dublin-based Basht are set to release their debut album ‘Poor Advice’ via LAB Records on 9 October, 2026. Produced by Ali Chant (Dry Cleaning, Lime Garden, Sorry), the band tackle the unease between church and state, boardrooms and barracks, and so much more, in their homeland throughout the 10 tracks…

‘Terror TV’ opens in a more electronic space before morphing into a Supergrass-esque power-pop anthem filled with advice – ‘Make sure the world knows what you are about. Keep writing the songs, man’ – and musings on the horrifying state of the world today. ‘Superchurch’ slow things down with glacial, melodic hooks and the story of escaping a toxic environment. However, it finishes with some hope: ‘When all of this is said and done, I’ll meet you in the setting sun’.

There’s a slow-burning shoegazey start to album opener ‘Dive’. The atmospheric piece has words about birds before a dark declaration of ‘I’ll clip your wings’ and an even more menacing question: ‘Hey, bluebird, why don’t you fly anymore?’ ‘Perfume’ continues in this brooding fashion, with lyrics about an English rose wilting in a cold garden being delivered against a sound that is equal parts Wunderhorse and ‘Bullet the Blue Sky’-era U2 (that’s a compliment, by the way). ‘Keira Knightley’, the latest in a long line of songs named after famous actors, follows with its post-punk attitude and jaggedy edges.

The intensely psychedelic ‘Circadia’ is filled with paranoia as the band ponder on spending ’24 hours awake in a chokehold’, while recent single ‘Kids’ vs Guns’ again returns to religion: ‘Holy water’s hard to come by. Let’s go and dig a new grave’. The album finishes with the title track, an emotional and pining piece in the vein of Been Stellar that focuses on a loved one who has ended up lost: ‘Look at you now, you’ve lost the colour in your cheeks, and you’re wandering the streets for another round’.

Basht’s debut record is a sprawling and sublime listen. Take our advice and listen to it asap.