BRUISE CONTROL tick your boxes for scuzzy, punk, hardcore, rock’n’roll face-slapping fun with “If Yr Not Mine”

Overjoyed. The first thing that came to our minds when we heard this. Untamed, punk-rooted and indie spirited. As someone who’s grown up across 00s and 10s rock, indie and punk this embodies everything we’ve loved about groups of friends that pick up guitars and drumsticks and rock out (like no one’s watching). That wild energy that masses are enjoying from the likes of Turnstile and Amyl & The Sniffers could turn heads to Bruise Control, but we’re very much about a ridiculously good song (which “If Yr Not Mine” is). A firey belly of spirit and sass and, a prroven sweaty, blustering performance to top it off, this new self-titled EP is full of high-energy get up and go songs.  Manchester’s scene has spat out another ‘good egg’ in the form of Bruise Control. And this all self-produced to top it off the talented pups tickbox.

Vocalist Jim Taylor shares: “If Yr Not Mine is another sense of apathy (bit of a theme of how I’ve felt as of late) and anger at day to day life. It’s near impossible to go about a daily task without getting wound up or annoyed at something cause absolutely everything has turned into one giant squeeze – from balancing finding time to see friends and family, trying to keep happy in a job which helps pay increasing bills and rents, trying to help out people who are in need of it, or feeling guilty that its hard to help others out because I’m struggling so much to keep afloat myself.” And we totally hear that. Simpler times seem a distance memory, but… we move.

FFO: Bad Nerves, Ty Segall, Veliciraptor, Soft Play, FIDLAR and even for the oi-punk fans of Karen Dió and Lambrini Girls