Feel the heat with Moss Side Sauna Club's '122bpm'
MANCHESTER’S HYPED HOT POP TRIO, MOSS SIDE SAUNA CLUB, ABANDON CAUTION ON LATEST SINGLE: 122bpm
“Tongue-in-cheek queer satire to heartfelt confessionalism, all loosely wired into a trippy, digital landscape.” – Analogue Trash
“Catholic guilt, naked intimacy, and sexual freedom all collide in a swirl of distorted pop bliss.” – Backseat Mafia
Moss Side Sauna Club
122bpm
OUT NOW
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When you aren’t sure where to turn, why not go for the option that’s staring you right in the face? Moss Side Sauna Club continue to put the whisper on music-seekers’ lips in and around Manchester and add another ladle of water to the hot stones of hype with the release of 122bpm – OUT NOW. Cutting quickly to the core of their essence as an essential new band and content with the inevitability of chaos, MSSC are ‘a bit much’ and they don’t mind who knows it.
Tuned into the indie dance floor soundtrack of the present and the future, smudging genre codes into new, indistinct colour. MSSC’s first soft-knuckled attack on the face of a music industry unprepared for their arrival was debut single, Freak, released last October. The three dealers in anxiety release through unthinking ‘see where this goes’ experimentation, formed of dual vocalists, Maddy Storm and Sam Craighan (the latter also on wild stabs and luxuriant chords on guitar) plus drummer, Will Brooks, followed up with My Weird Appetite earlier this year. Concordant with the growing expectations they shoulder, MSSC concocted their MySpace-era M.I.A electro-clash beats and rhythms with barely concealed vulnerability. BBC Radio 6, Radio X and BBC Introducing felt the force, maxxing the MSSC band buzz inside and out.
122bpm is as it says on the sparkling tin as wires-and-transistors meet the blood, bone and cracked nail varnish of the oddly beautiful and the freakishly bold
The band says of the track:
“This is our next flex, giving a simple answer to the question: ‘122bpm? Why the hell not?’ It seems an essential part of the sauna club official code of conduct. Somehow it mixes up the sounds in our heads like Deftones, Talking Heads, Calvin Harris and The Beach Boys all on one track without sounding one bit contrived or losing its pop appeal. Yeah, it’s hard to think of another act that could pull this off this level of chaos and still have everyone singing along all week."
MSSC prepares to push on as the days get shorter, taking naturally to darkness and moving the thrills indoors. The band next plays at Manchester’s New Cult night at the city’s Rat and Pigeon, bringing tricks and treats to a cozy Halloween show on Fri 31 October 2025. Thriving in the dim light of the sauna, as well as the sorry stillness of winter, hangers-on and hangers-out can expect more appearances in major conurbations in the coming weeks and months.
MSSC’s design and visual direction has been completed once again by Jenny Faulks. The single itself was written, recorded and produced by MSSC in Steam Room Studios, Salford. Mixed by Maddy Storm, 122bpm was mastered by Pete Maher (Lana Del Rey, The 1975, Pixies).
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