Balancing Act have announced their debut album 'Who’ve You Come As?', with Part 1 arriving this autumn
Recorded between rural France sessions and London finishing touches with longtime collaborators.
Balancing Act are set to release their debut album, 'Who’ve You Come As?', with Part 1 arriving on 3rd October. The London-via-Manchester quartet’s first full-length follows two years of EPs and a growing live profile, and will be issued in two parts.
Written at a friend’s studio in the French countryside with collaborator Joe Woolf, the record was completed in London with SFJ, who also recorded the band’s first EP. It follows 2022’s 'Malice In Tone' and 2024’s 'Tightropes and Limericks', which refined the group’s approach ahead of their first album.
Vocalist Kai Roberts explains, “The music that was coming out of us just naturally felt like it wanted to be part of something more than another EP. It’s been two years in the making, it can take a while to explore every avenue and throw out some of the bad apples, but we feel like we’ve hit on something very exciting and truly our own. We were far more critical and cutthroat in the actual songwriting process. Parts wouldn’t just sit in the song for the sake of it, they had to scrap and brawl for their place within it. We were focused on discovering an atmosphere in the music that felt bigger than us. Everyone was open to inspiration coming from anything and anywhere.”
On the album’s title, the band add, “The album is called Who’ve You Come As? It’s a funny Manc phrase we use if someone had a haircut or turned up to the pub in a new and probably quite daring jacket for example. But a slang term slowly took on a bigger meaning to us, your first album is your first offering into the world and the most honest depiction of your band. Quite literally, who you’re coming as.”
Written at a friend’s studio in the French countryside with collaborator Joe Woolf, the record was completed in London with SFJ, who also recorded the band’s first EP. It follows 2022’s 'Malice In Tone' and 2024’s 'Tightropes and Limericks', which refined the group’s approach ahead of their first album.
Vocalist Kai Roberts explains, “The music that was coming out of us just naturally felt like it wanted to be part of something more than another EP. It’s been two years in the making, it can take a while to explore every avenue and throw out some of the bad apples, but we feel like we’ve hit on something very exciting and truly our own. We were far more critical and cutthroat in the actual songwriting process. Parts wouldn’t just sit in the song for the sake of it, they had to scrap and brawl for their place within it. We were focused on discovering an atmosphere in the music that felt bigger than us. Everyone was open to inspiration coming from anything and anywhere.”
On the album’s title, the band add, “The album is called Who’ve You Come As? It’s a funny Manc phrase we use if someone had a haircut or turned up to the pub in a new and probably quite daring jacket for example. But a slang term slowly took on a bigger meaning to us, your first album is your first offering into the world and the most honest depiction of your band. Quite literally, who you’re coming as.”
The tracklisting for 'Who’ve You Come As? Part 1' reads:
'Talks A Lot'
'Scar'
'Bonneville Salt Flat Jive'
'Had Another Mare'
'Mr Handsome'
'Quebec'
'The Breaks'
Their dates read:
AUGUST
24 Victorious Festival, Portsmouth, UK
SEPTEMBER
20 Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg, DE
OCTOBER
3 Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, UK
5 Heartbreakers, Southampton, UK
6 Yellow Arch, Sheffield, UK
7 Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh, UK
'Talks A Lot'
'Scar'
'Bonneville Salt Flat Jive'
'Had Another Mare'
'Mr Handsome'
'Quebec'
'The Breaks'
Their dates read:
AUGUST
24 Victorious Festival, Portsmouth, UK
SEPTEMBER
20 Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg, DE
OCTOBER
3 Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, UK
5 Heartbreakers, Southampton, UK
6 Yellow Arch, Sheffield, UK
7 Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh, UK
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