Bathing Suits Release Abrasive New Single ‘Swan Princess’
Bathing Suits release new single ‘Swan Princess’ through Underplay Recordings that completes EP ‘KILL BATHING SUITS’ and shows why they’re the most exciting new band in the industry right now.
Bathing Suits are a Leeds electro-noise band on the rise that are tearing their way through the DIY scene; having first seen them supporting Prostitute at a now historic Brixton Windmill gig. They’re now set to play tastemaker festivals like Left of the Dial and The Great Escape – and to celebrate the launch of their new single have a free Great Escape warm-up show at the Old Blue Last with Oslo Twins on 23rd April.
Featured by So Young and Cold, they’ve already counted praise for Bandcamp and Rolling Stone under their radar. Louder Than War have called them a “disco version of Ireland’s Gilla Band”, cited as a direct inspiration for their creation in an interview with So Young Magazine, in addition to watching psychotic monks play together in Sheffield of all places. In minutes of listening to Killing Song’s pulsating beats, it’s easy to see why – embracing the club scene head on by bringing vocalist Freyja Blevins front and centre to the dancefloor. There are echoes of the hypnotic intensity of Spanish techno outfit Dame Area here (if say, Kim Gordon was their frontwoman?); and the fusion of dance-punk makes them an unmissable outfit that isn’t afraid to embrace the dancefloor. To not combine Dame Area and Bathing Suits on a single billing would almost be a missed opportunity – but I don’t think there would be one venue in London capable of holding such raw star power and potential in one room.
This is a band that’s just as easy to write a song called ‘covered in shit’ (not on this EP, but a highlight of an early career set)because one of their members got shat on by a bird as it is to tackle something like ‘Swan Princess’ head on. It’s a constant industrial wall of sound that isn’t afraid to shy away from encouraging the audience to dance – and as anyone who’s seen their live shows can testify it’s an experience that can’t easily be repeated. This is all part of their EP KILL Bathing Suits, and ‘Swan Princess’ is the final piece of that puzzle, a chaotic, pulsating mess that isn’t afraid to provide a sensory overload in the best way possible: already released single ‘I Can Be a Freak’ shows their brilliance and what they’re really capable of in the best possible way, going down as one of the best releases of 2025 by any band when all is said and done. This is a band that isn’t afraid to get down and dirty in the mosh without a call to arms that most new bands have to resort to – they can generate moshes at will that rival the chaos of more established outfits.
KILL Bathing Suits compromises of five songs: raw, intense and powerful energy of the best kind.
Photography By: Matt Auger @mattgoesgigs