Video Premiere: Louse ‘Best Laid Plans’ – New Album ‘Buyer’s Remorse’ Lands 14th August
Newcastle upon Tyne’s heavy scum noise-rock purveyors, Louse, are preparing to unleash another dose of unrefined sonic filth with their upcoming album Buyer’s Remorse, arriving 14th August via Riot Season.
Building on their reputation for bleak, sludge-dripping chaos, the six-piece returns nastier and even more relentlessly punishing. To set the stage for the new record, The Shaman is thrilled to host the video premiere for the opening track Best Laid Plans.
Brought to life by director Lu Küster, the accompanying visual is a deeply unsettling piece of filmmaking. Pushing headfirst into dark, sinister, and harrowing territory, Küster’s imagery mirrors the music’s suffocating intensity so thoroughly that YouTube slapped the clip with an over-18 age restriction. It is a stark, unblinking visual counterpart to the band’s oppressive soundscapes, delivering a dose of atmosphere that lingers long after the final note fades.
Serving as the ideal entry point into the gritty, distorted universe Louse inhabits on this new recording. Balancing punishing distortion with an irresistible, murky repetition, it sets an uncompromising tone for what is to come across the rest of Buyer’s Remorse.
Brace yourself and step into the murk by clicking below…
More On Louse & ‘Buyer’s Remorse’
Scum rock low-lives Louse return with their sophomore LP, Buyer’s Remorse – an unrefined but levelled-up dip back into the murk, keeping it in the family one more time on Riot Season (a label which now, fittingly, features genre luminaries Brainbombs).
More cohesive, more negative but no less disgusting than debut record Creep Call, the band have further enhanced their pummelling, single-riff ritual M.O. with even more strop-razor guitars, crank-fuelled slide-bass, strangled sax and sinister missives from the void.
Buyer’s Remorse includes unspeakable meditations on an unmatched litany of losers, including: inept hitmen/serial killers, snuff-flick refund naivety, disturbing fellatio lessons, burying yourself alive to escape the law (‘you’ll never get me in the slammer’) and having a damn good time being chopped into luncheon (‘take a ride on the meat slide!’)
Snubbed from all but the best festivals, Louse continue to eke out a steady stream of shows, with highlights such as glorious sweatboxes in our beloved Torino, Monza and beyond in the EU with BRAK, being the first band to play Mickey Zogg’s Basement in Bristol with Beau Wanzer and multiple distinguished appearances at Café Oto with legend and fellow Riot Season label-mate Shit & Shine.
Right-thinking tastemakers have decreed that Louse ‘exist in an alternate reality where The Fall and The Birthday Party are one and the same band’, and that their songs are ‘all at once unsettling, loose, filthy, untamed, distorted and fucked up, but most of all rocking, creative and unique’.
Buyer’s Remorse is no exception, having been wrangled into perfection by long-time collaborator James Atkinson at The Stationhouse Studio and none other than Rectal Hygienics’ Matt Ibarra at STR Mastering, this is truly scum rock at its finest – all at once punishing, ugly and brutal; but listen to that groove (oh my!).
Buyer’s Remorse Tracklisting
01. Best Laid Plans
02. Buyer’s Remorse
03. Rags & Tatters
04. The Wastepipe Ripper
05. Comfort
06. Legal Loophole
07. Wheel
08. Meat Slide
09. The Deer Caller
10. Potato Diet ’26-’27
Louse is:
The Captain – Vocals
Septic Pete – Guitar
The King of Sting – Guitar
Uncle Brutus – Guitar
Mister P. – Drums
Dieta Di Patate – Slide Bass
Buyer’s Remorse, the latest album from scum noiseniks Louse, releases 14th August via Riot Season. Pre-sales for the limited transparent blue vinyl and digital download are available now over on Bandcamp.
Label: Riot Season
Band Links: Bandcamp | Spotify | Instagram
