Grandmas House release their long-awaited debut album" Baby You're A Winner"

Today, Bristol’s Grandmas House release their long-awaited debut album, Baby You’re A Winner, via Brace Yourself Records.

Speaking of the album’s arrival, Grandmas House offer: “We are so excited to finally release our debut album into the world. It feels like a time capsule of all the hard times we’ve faced together, and a testament to the love and friendship the four of us share. We’re so proud of ourselves for what we have created, these are songs to dance, cry and scream along to and we hope everyone loves them as much as we do.”

Alongside the album’s arrival comes a final single from it, in the guise of the mesmerising ‘Dance’, and a suitably hypnotic accompanying video that places the album’s eerie unofficial mascot - the headless man himself - front and centre.

Another prime example of the expanded vision across Baby You’re A Winner, ‘Dance’ sees the band make deft use of dynamics as Yasmin Berndt’s urgent, rallying vocals collide with tumultuous instrumental breakdowns, snaking guitar leads and blasts of sax from Fat Dog’s Morgan Wallace.

Of ‘Dance’, the band explain: “This song is about feeling low and alone. Feeling reminiscent of times when you weren’t lonely. Maybe because you were in love. It’s a reminder to keep going, whilst dancing the pain away.”

Baby You’re A Winner finds the quartet - Yasmin Berndt (vocals, guitar), Poppy Dodgson (vocals, drums), Zoë Zinsmeister (bass, vocals) and Polly Jessett (guitar) - bringing a greater sense of nuance and space to their music, while deploying myriad genres to maximum effect. From the righteous, elasticated rock of ‘DOG’ to the syncopated post-punk and brass blasts of ‘Dance’ and on to the chamber folk ambiance of closer ‘Spring’, Baby You’re A Winner is the most authentic, realised portrait of Grandmas House to date.

The songs here navigate a precarious balancing act between sadness and catharsis, ultimately landing in a place of salvation - the product of the band’s tight-knit friendship, this album is their gift to the world, born from a period of grief and hardship but emerging from the other side with profound love and strength. It’s a testament that even when the odds are against you, anyone can be a winner.

“We wrote this album about the existential crisis of going through life,” explain the band. “It’s about love and infatuation but also about grief and loneliness. It’s emotional, powerful, sad and a good time all at once.”

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TRACKLISTING

01. Baby You’re A Winner

02. DOG

03. Blue Oblivion

04. The Table

05. Hurricane

06. Dance

07. Next Big Hit (Choo Choo)

08. Taxidermy

09. Soaked

10. I Miss That House

11. How It Is

12. Spring

TOUR DATES

• Aug 21st Kingston, UK - Banquet Records
• Aug 23rd Southampton, UK - Vinilo
• Aug 24th Oxford, UK - Truck Records
• Aug 25th Liverpool, UK - Jacaranda
• Aug 26th Leeds, UK - Vinyl Whistle
• Aug 27th Bristol, UK - Rough Trade
• Aug 30th Bristol, UK - Forwards Festival
• Sep 30th Tromsø, NO - Blårock Café
• Oct 2nd Bergen, NO - Tundra & Lightning Festival
• Oct 7th Köln, DE - Bumann & Sohn
• Oct 8th Brussels, BE - Brasserie de la Mule
• Oct 9th Den Haag, NL - Zwarte Ruiter
• Oct 10th Tilburg, NL - Here’s The Thing Festival
• Oct 11th Hamburg, DE - Hafenklang
• Oct 13th Stockholm, SE - Hus 7
• Oct 14th Göteborg, SE - Musikens Hus
• Oct 15th Aarhus, DK - Phono
• Oct 16th Copenhagen, DK - Vega
• Oct 18th Berlin, DE - Neue Zukunft
• Oct 19th Munich, DE - Substanz
• Oct 20th Vienna, AT - B72
• Oct 23rd Winterthur, CH - Gaswerk
• Oct 24th Bern, CH - ISC Club
• Oct 27th Paris, FR - La Boule Noire
• Oct 29th Nantes, FR - Le Ferrailleur
• Oct 31st Quessoy, FR - Les Sons d’Automne Festival
• Nov 17th London, UK - Oslo
• Nov 20th Brighton, UK - Hope & Ruin
• Nov 21st Bristol, UK - Thekla
• Nov 24th Glasgow, UK - Nice N Sleazy
• Nov 25th Manchester, UK - Soup
• Nov 27th Nottingham, UK - Bodega