cruush

Manchester’s alternative heavyweights, cruush sound like a manufacturing error of prettiness. Corrosive. Half-melted. Spewing a destabilising grunginess so intense it creates a kind of paralysis. Their core IP formed when Amber’s darkwave nursery rhymes of dead-eyed dreamstate met the white-knuckle tension of Arthur Boyd’s elliptical guitar. Running into one another at a “shitty Fresher’s event” the pair retreated to the chromosome of Amber’s room to jam later joined by drummer Fotis Kalantzis and bassist Charlie Marriott. Their delay mottled ditties propelled by gusts of distortion dissolving into tones muscular enough to administer compound fractures, shifting in and out of phase, pluming for miles, drone-laced and magnificent. Broadcasters and journalists alike are enchanted, with the likes of Jack Saunders (BBC Radio 1), Steve Lamacq (BBC 6), John Kennedy (Radio X), Consequences of Sound, The Independent, NYLON, The NME, So Young, the Line of Best Fit, Clash, Rough Trade and Gigwise lining up to call themselves fans. Having toured with and supported BDRMM, NewDad, Pale Blue Eyes, Far Caspian, Ian Sweet, Flyying Colours the band recently completed a headline UK tour and played festivals such as Left of the Dial and Beyond the Music. After signing to indie darlings Heist or Hit and releasing debut EP ‘Wishful Thinker’ in 2023, the band decamped to Young Thugs studio in York to record the follow up: ‘Nice Things Now, All of the Time’ slated for release in April 2024.