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Bouts

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Bouts

Bouts Biography

Taking their cue from the 90s guitar music all four guys grew up obsessing over, Bouts formed in 2011. They made an oddly immediate, quick-fire impression on the Irish indie-scene. Their self-titled EP Bouts (2011), a double A-sided 7” Get Sick/ Turn Away (2012), and an album Nothing Good Gets Away (2013) followed in quick succession establishing their energetic, cathartic and hook-laden credentials. With another EP, Unlearn (2016), showing a maturation of style and sound, they proved (to themselves) they weren’t going to burn out and fade away anytime soon. They’ve opened for Johnny Marr, Yuck, Cloud Nothings, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Presidents of the United States of ...

Taking their cue from the 90s guitar music all four guys grew up obsessing over, Bouts formed in 2011. They made an oddly immediate, quick-fire impression on the Irish indie-scene. Their self-titled EP Bouts (2011), a double A-sided 7” Get Sick/ Turn Away (2012), and an album Nothing Good Gets Away (2013) followed in quick succession establishing their energetic, cathartic and hook-laden credentials. With another EP, Unlearn (2016), showing a maturation of style and sound, they proved (to themselves) they weren’t going to burn out and fade away anytime soon.

They’ve opened for Johnny Marr, Yuck, Cloud Nothings, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Presidents of the United States of America, even playing with the late Bobby Womack in 2013. BBC 6 Music’s Lauren Laverne has consistently flown the flag for the Dublin quartet, playing several of their singles, and referring to them as both ‘brilliant’ and ‘must listen’. 

Bouts toured non-stop around Ireland, Europe and North America between 2012 and 2015 before taking an important break, but 2018 sees them return to the studio, armed with a new batch of songs written throughout 2016 and 2017, from rehearsal spaces in London, holiday cottages in the West of Ireland and community centres in their hometown of Dublin. Lead singer Barry Bracken wrote most of the lyrics in Amsterdam while studying for his Masters in 2017.

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Bouts Discography

  • 2011EPEp 2011
  • 2012SingleGet Sick / Turn Away
  • 2013AlbumNothing Good Gets Away
  • 2016EPUnlearn
  • 2018SingleFace Up
  • 2018SingleLove's Lost Landings, Pt. 1
  • 2019AlbumFlow
  • 2019SingleLove's Lost Landings, Pt. 2
  • 2019SinglePassing Through
  • 2021SingleRed Room
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