The Guru Guru have released their second single and video “Saint-Tropez” and have released pre-orders for their upcoming album “Make (less) Babies” set to release on October 27th. Watch the video through the youTube player below:
With “Make (Less) Babies,” their 3rd full album – out on October 27, 2023 on the Swiss label Hummus Records in collaboration with the French label A Tant Rêver Du Roi Records – The Guru Guru took matters into their own hands and they did the full production of the album themselves, from recording to mixing. No compromises, no one looking over their shoulders, they could just do their own thing. Having learned a lot from previous albums with Wouter Vlaeminck as producer (Raketkanon, Kapitan Korsakov, etc.), and the recent EP, we wrote, composed, rehearsed, recorded, produced and mixed everything ourselves. The album was recorded in Farrm Studio, Hasselt (Belgium). The purpose of doing everything themselves was to make the most honest album since the band started playing music. Straight from the heart. They recorded everything live in the studio, there were no instrument overdubs recorded. What you hear is what you get. They took their energy and sound they have live on stage onto this album to make it more natural and organically sounding.
Tight energetic drums, deep bass lines, virtuoso screaming guitars and with a very expressive frontman. This is what The Guru Guru sounds like in 2023.
Guitarist Emiel Van Den Abbeele about the creation of this album: “Making the album was much more intense this time than with previous albums. Especially since we took everything into our own hands. The writing process was also different from previous times (Covid and the multiple lockdowns had something to do with this). But that made it interesting for everyone. For example, I came up with the idea of a ‘Guroulette’ because we were not allowed to be together due to Covid. Each musician records a musical idea at home on their own instrument that is passed on to the next in line. By repeating this with all band members you have five new songs after five rounds. In this way, each musician had already put his vision and emotion into the music in his own way. This gives a different depth to the songs.“
The recurring theme of “Make (Less) Babies” is about how we are gradually destroying our planet and about the major role that our favorite commodity, money, plays in this. Together with the planet we are slowly destroying ourselves and we are doing it against our better judgement. This time, singer Tom The Bomb deliberately chose not to start writing until he knew what he wanted to talk about. For example, he often watched the news before he started writing instead of just letting the texts flow from his pen. It is because of this that the album has acquired a socially critical undercurrent.
Pre-Order the album on Bandcamp: https://theguruguru.bandcamp.com/album/make-less-babies
Tracklist:
01. Not awake (the baseballs)
02. Jack shit/jackpot
03. Lemon-aid, lemon-cello (bear dance)
04. Supply on demand (sunshinin’ on my dinin’)
05. Make less babies
06. In 2073 (plenty of other fish in the sea)
07. Saint-Tropez
08. Lotta tension
09. Oh me (I can’t complain)
10. Joke’s on you (under over)
