Butch Kassidy - ANNA

5-piece noise-rock band, Butch Kassid,y have spent the last few years honing their craft and building a huge cult following off the back of their incendiary live shows. The result is ANNA, a 66-minute wall of sound designed to listen to in its entirety - no shuffle, no skipping, no respite. The album was forged through intense, hours-long jam sessions in a shed painted bright green: “We used to lock ourselves away for hours and hours and just jam until we liked something. This obsessive repetitiveness really shaped the music that we wrote from then onwards.”

The first taste of the record came in the form of ‘Killakee’ - a track that hybridises the music the band grew up on like King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard with the rolling power of SWANS, and the energy of the band’s collective love for metal. “Killakee really encapsulates our energy as a group and how much we feed off each other while playing.” Says frontman and guitarist Fionn. “It’s named after a place in Ireland where we recorded, so it’s got a special place in a few of our hearts - with Aron, Tom and I being of Irish descent. Getting to be in Ireland to catch such a seminal moment for us turned out to be really important and quite emotional”. Aron adds; “It’s a real gut-punch, so we wanted to release it first.”

In a world where songs are getting shorter and shorter, albums are as long as EPs, where bands are forced to be influencers more than they are bands, and music is more of a product than art, Butch Kassidy is the perfect antidote.