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12 August 2026
© Ren Faulkner
Band: THE FAMILY BATTENBURG
Who: Fiery Welsh indie rockers from Cardiff who got
critics’ attention with last year’s EP Spider Rock Forever.
FFO: T. Rex, The White Stripes, The Stooges, Slade and Ty Segall.
Track: BED BUG
Lead single from their forthcoming debut album,
named Super Deluxe on November 20th. Details here.
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About the song: “A lot of our songs sound like they’re about shagging, but aren’t, except this one sort of is. Bed Bug is about mites. How would a bed bug feel about getting obsessed with the person in the bed? We wrote it in a tent backstage at a festival in Orléans, France.
Even then we knew we wanted it to sound big. We’d spent nine months of 2025 not coming up with any new songs we were happy with, but this one thankfully broke our streak, and came to define the outlook of the new record”.
TUTV: Hair-raising riffage, a pressurising rhythm section, and fuzzy vocals cause a pulverising effect on this garage punk roundhouse, while the hypnotic chorus petrifies. This is not a new Ty Segall left-right sucker-punch, but it certainly matches his bewildering, psychedelic impact. These Welsh indie gunslingers shoot from the hip.
Bullseye.
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