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Bingo Fury

city: Bristol
country: UK
genre: Alternative
styles: Alternative, No Wave, Post-Punk, Jazz

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LP Bats Feet For A Widow on February 16, 2024

on hashbrandnew.com since July 14, 2021

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Practise Music

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Mercy's Cut

out on October 07, 2022

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Today, Bristol-based Bingo Fury releases his debut EP ‘Mercy’s Cut’. Drawing from his already established sophisticated yet raw sound, ‘Mercy’s Cut’ scatterguns between stark, romantic noir ballads, frantic no-wave, and polished jazz.

Opening track ‘The Phone’, is a beautifully wistful love song: ‘I just want to try to make it harder to tell where you end and I begin’. Lead single ‘Underfall Yard’ swells with fervour, with Bingo Fury’s world-weary vocals sitting atop off-kilter jazz and twitchy cornet solos. Track three, ‘Cash For Chloe’, is an electrifying fusion of wonky rhythms and romantic, pastoral lyricism, clattering into an knee-jerk improvised coda. Clocking in at just one and a half minutes, ‘I’m Not Tied’ is another poignant piano ballad, while ‘Mercy’s Cut’ ends the EP with a stirring closing-time jazz. Filled with rich, cinematic allure, the EP is both beautiful and unsettling and underlines Bingo Fury’s complete abundance of compositional ideas.

Whilst Bingo’s first single ‘Big Rain’ was an inky tale of alienation with a closing-time cabaret charm, the follow-up ‘Happy Snake’ was the sound of a mind unravelling at the seams. His most recent release ‘Birchall & King’s’ was a chaotic whirlwind clocking in at one minute and thirty seconds. The tracks have won support from the likes of BBC 6 Music, Loud and Quiet, DIY, NME and more.

Although very much a solo songwriter, Bingo’s compositional process relies on contributions from his entire band - bassist Megan Jenkins, and drummer Henry Terrett have been playing together since their teens. In one of their various incarnations, they recruited local avant-jazz legend, cornet player Harry ‘Iceman’ Furniss, with guitarist and percussionist Rafi Cohen later completing the line-up.

Bingo Fury’s name is pulled straight from one of his lyric sheets - a perfect representation of the on-the-nose mystique surrounding the project: what you see is what you get, but ‘what it means’ is far less certain. Following sold-out headline dates earlier this year, he supported Penelope Isles on their April tour, and performed a special one-off Cinematic improv show at The Ivy House on July 28th. Rounding off the summer, he played electrifying sets at both Green Man and End Of The Road festival.

Joined by the full band, later this summer Bingo Fury will be embarking on a co-headline tour with Robbie & Mona in October.