Bait Bag

Maine island-based post-riot grrrls BAIT BAG released their first full-length album, Confident, Sloppy, and Loud, a celebration of self-love, hope, and radical acceptance, on July 8.

The band released three singles ahead of the album. "Cramp Couch," "Entropy," and "Splinter" each embody the album's themes of radical self-love and acceptance while running the musical gamut from straight ahead punk to riff-heavy rock to mellow blues. "Splinter" was released with a video directed by Wes Sterrs.

BAIT BAG will tour the Northeast in July to support the album, which was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Richard Marr at Galaxy Park Studios and produced by William Trevaskis. The album collects nine new songs linked by themes of breaking free from societal expectations and emerging whole and healed. Confident, Sloppy, and Loud also contains new versions of two early fan favorites, “Hot Garbage” and “Girl Pushups”, and the band’s popular cover of Le Tigre’s “Deceptacon”.

Founded in 2018 by Fiona Robins, Claire Donnelly, and Courtney Naliboff, BAIT BAG has shared the stage with punk and indie legends Deerhoof, Screaming Females, Rough Francis, and Weakened Friends, and made friends and fans from New York to Machias. They were recently featured in an episode of KEXP’s Sound and Vision podcast. BAIT BAG’s post-riot grrrl anthems, jagged dance breaks, and tight harmonies offer catharsis and sweet release.