Anna

Butch Kassidy's highly anticipated debut album Anna out via Polished Stone.

Having released their debut single ‘Heath’ back in 2021 as part of a Slow Dance Recordings compilation, 5-piece noise-rock band Butch Kassidy 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.” 

Released through independent record label Polished Stone (Pearl2, Moreish Idols, Prayer Tech, Beth Jones), the first taste of the record comes 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. 

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.