The Bug Club’s Very Human Features Is Out Now
Worldwide From Sub Pop!
Album Stream

2025 Summer East Coast/Midwest US and Canada Tour Dates
Begin Tonight in Montreal

Very Human Features, The Bug Club’s vibrant, heady, and fantastic new long player, is out now worldwide from Sub Pop. The album includes “Appropriate Emotions,” “How to Be a Confidante,” “Jealous Boy,” and ten other excellent songs. It was produced and mixed by Tom Rees at Rat Trap Studios in Cardiff, Wales, and mastered by Mikey Young.

The Bug Club is currently in North America for the start of their June Eastern/Midwestern US and Canada dates, with label mates Omni, which begin with a show in Montreal tonight, June 13th at Cabaret Foufounes, and end July 27th in Philadelphia at Johnny Brendas. The band’s previously announced UK live dates currently span July 25th through December 19th, 2025. See a full list of dates below.

The Bug Club set lists for these dates will be a selection of fine tunes from Very Human Features, and 2024’s On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System by Means of Popular Music, or the Contemplation of Pretty Faces, Tinned Bubbles and Strife. PLUS! Some of their older, though still very good, songs!

Very Human Features is available to buy on CD/LP/all DSPs from Sub Pop. LP purchases from megamart.subpop.com in North America, MM2 in the UK + EU, your local record store, and directly from the band at their live shows will receive the limited “Loser” Edition on Purple (NA) or Bio Pink (UK/EU) vinyl (all vinyl color editions whilst stock lasts!)

North American | UK + EU
Headline Dates, Festivals + Support Shows, Summer 2025
Fri. Jun. 13 - Montreal, QC - Cabaret Foufounes *
Sat. Jun. 14 - Toronto, ON - The Garrison *
Sun. Jun. 15 - Detroit, MI - Third Man Records *
Tue. Jun. 17 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle *
Wed. Jun. 18 - St. Louis, MO - Sinkhole *
Thu. Jun. 19 - Nashville, TN - DRKMTTR *
Fri. Jun 20 - Nelsonville, OH - Nelsonville Art & Music Festival
Sat. Jun. 21 - Nelsonville, OH - Nelsonville Art & Music Festival
Mon. Jun. 23 - Atlanta, GA - Terminal West *
Tue. Jun. 24 - Raleigh, NC - King's *
Wed. Jun. 25 - Washington, DC- DC9 *
Thu. Jun. 26 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom *
Fri. Jun. 27    - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's *
Fri. Jul. 25 - Otley, UK - The Black Horse
Sat. Jul. 26 - Thirsk, UK - Deer Shed Festival
Thu. Aug. 21 - Paris, FR - Point Ephemere
Sat. Aug. 23 – Utrecht, NL – Loose Ends Festival
Wed. Aug. 27 - Sheffield, UK - Don Valley Stadium ^
Thu. Aug. 28 - Todmorden, UK - The Golden Lion
Fri. Aug. 29 - Dorset, UK - End of the Road Festival
Sat. Aug. 30 - Manchester, UK - Psych Fest
Tue. Sep. 09 - London, UK - Moth Club
Wed. Sep. 10 - London, UK - Moth Club
Thu. Sep. 11 - London, UK - Moth Club #
Fri. Sep. 12 - Bedford, UK - Bedford Esquires #
Sat. Sep. 13 - Burton-on-Trent, UK - Sonic Boom Festival

Fall UK 2025 Headline Shows
Tue. Oct. 14 - Cambridge, UK - The Portland Arms #
Wed. Oct. 15 - Cambridge, UK - The Portland Arms #
Thu. Oct. 16 - Ipswich, UK - St. Stephen’s Church #
Tue. Oct. 28 - Aberdeen, UK - The Tunnels !
Wed. Oct. 29 - Inverness, UK - The Tooth & Claw !
Thu. Oct. 30 - Glasgow, UK - The Art School !
Fri. Oct. 31 - Dundee, UK - Beat Generator !
Sat. Nov 01 - Newcastle, UK - The Grove !
Thu. Nov 06 - Margate, UK - Where Else? #
Sat. Nov 08 - Portsmouth, UK - The Wedgewood Rooms #
Fri. Dec. 19 - Birmingham, UK - The Castle & Falcon

* w/ Omni
^ w/ Queens of the Stone Age
# w/ Adwaith
! w/ The Slugs

What People Are Saying About The Bug Club’s Very Human Features:
“Very Human Features, the duo’s fourth album, Sam Willmett and Tilly Harris embrace melody, subtlety, and maturity—without losing any of their rough-hewn charm. The guitars jangle like The Vaselines or The Wedding Present, but everything’s turned up with levels deep in the red, including the vocals, which turns the otherwise sweet melodies into something more visceral and thrilling.” “Indie Basement “Album of the Week,” BROOKLYN VEGAN

“‘Blame Me’ is an especially soulful track, full of scorching lead guitars and a tone that almost approaches melancholy. ‘Muck’ is a strange, delicate acoustic number with existential lyrics about growing old. There’s the seemingly straightforward ‘Dear Reader,’ whose two-chord verses and catchy chorus contains lyrics about “a world on fire,” while lines on ‘Jealous Boy’ manage to capture something about the paradoxical and very-human complexities of nonsensical jealousy. This is The Bug Club’s great triumph. Amid all the charm and whimsy, achingly human truths are unearthed.” FLOOD

“The Bug Club’s fourth full-length (and second on Sub Pop) swerves giddily pop-ward. The two principals, Sam Willmett and Tilly Harris, toss out the previous album’s hard-charging rock sound like last week’s recycling and settle, instead, on a cuddly twee vibe that matches very well with their fanciful lyrics.” Aquarium Drunkard

“Very Human Features..is a statement of intent from the Welsh band, a 13-track garage rock delight that is equal measures lyrically sharp and sonically playful.”
The Line of Best Fit

“...It’s tracks like ‘Jealous Boy’ and ‘Appropriate Emotions’ that set Very Human Features apart, these more subdued songs bring a different feel to the record. There is a more deliberate, heartfelt tone which is emphasised through ‘Muck (Very Human Features),’ as the band examines the ups and downs of the human condition. At times this feels like a very different take on The Bug Club’s sound yet it is no less exciting or endearing.”
4/5, NARC

“The ideas are more elaborate, their visions loftier, and the execution of it all is
stellar and infectious.” Glide

Tracklisting:
1. Full Grown Man
2. Twirling in the Middle
3. Jealous Boy
4. Young Reader
5. Beep Boop Computers
6. Muck (Very Human Features)
7. When the Little Choo Choo Train
Toots His Little Horn
8. How to Be a Confidante
9. Living in the Future
10. Tales of a Visionary Teller
11. The Sound of Communism
12. Blame Me
13. Appropriate Emotions

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