Basht. have revealed that their debut album 'Poor Advice' will arrive on 9th October through LAB Records. The Dublin four-piece — Jack Leavey on vocals and guitar, Lughaidh Armstrong-Mayock on lead guitar, Ryan McClelland on drums and Louis Christle on bass — have marked the occasion by sharing 'Perfume' as its lead single.
Ali Chant, whose production credits include work with Dry Cleaning, Perfume Genius and PJ Harvey, produced the record. Earlier in 2025, Basht. put out their '
Bitter and Twisted' EP, and the group have spent recent times sharing stages with DEADLETTER, Everything Everything and Wunderhorse across a busy touring schedule.
Speaking about 'Perfume', vocalist and guitarist Jack Leavey says: "Perfume is about the relationship between father and son from the perspective of the son as he recounts his parents' marriage falling apart. Ireland also has a darker history, shaped by the strong influence of the Catholic Church over private life, particularly in cases of unplanned pregnancy - where young couples were often pressured into marriage to preserve respectability and avoid shame. These unions were not always based on love or readiness, but on moral expectation and social control, with alternatives like single parenthood heavily stigmatised, especially for women. This song reflects that reality, capturing how personal lives were shaped by external pressures, where duty could outweigh desire and a single moment could determine the course of an entire future."
Leavey also expands on what listeners can expect from the album as a whole: "Poor Advice is a bruising concept album that traces the tangled wires between power and those crushed under it. Through 10 tracks, it maps the old dance between church and state in Ireland, where pulpits and governments traded sermons for policy and shaped a generation with guilt, silence, and obedience. It then pulls that thread into the present, following how moral authority has been outsourced to boardrooms and barracks, with the military industrial complex running like a grim metronome: conflict brewed, weapons sold, grief managed, contracts renewed. Poor Advice is the title because it's all the counsel handed down from above: keep your head down, say your prayers, trust the deal."
The group have an extensive run of live appearances lined up across Europe. The dates in full read:
APRIL
24 Roisin Dubh, Galway, IE
25 Ulster Sports Club, Belfast, UK - SOLD OUT
MAY
2 Liverpool Sound City, Liverpool, UK
22 Mi Ami Festival, Milan, IT
23 NBHD Weekender, Warrington, UK
24 Bearded Theory, Derbyshire, UK
27 Les Etoiles, Paris, FR
28 Ekko, Utrecht, NL - SOLD OUT
29 Vestrock Festival, Hulst, NL
29 Dauwpop, Hellendoorn, NL
JUNE
20 TRNSMT, UK
JULY
2 Rock Werchter, BE
AUGUST
9 Boardmasters Festival, Newquay, UK
29 Rock N Roll Circus, Sheffield, UK
30 Leeds Festival, Leeds, UK
SEPTEMBER
5 Zero Four Three Festival, Maastricht, NL
