Bingo Fury announces debut album, Bats Feet For A Widow

Alongside the album announcement, Bingo Fury has released new single, "Leather Sky". Bingo Fury explains that it is "a difficult song to describe succinctly. It’s about being separated from someone against both of your will. Somebody close to me became very unwell and communication became restricted, almost non-existent. The song took shape during that period. A few of the surreal lines ended up becoming reality.”

Alongside new music, Bingo Fury also announces details of shows across the UK, including a tour with Folly Group and dates at Folklore in London on 18 April, and The Jam Jar in Bristol on 20 April.

Recording took place in Cotham Parish Church on the outskirts of Bristol: never previously used for recording music. Joined by Rockfield engineer Joe Jones, Fury and his band filled the church with equipment and worked there for eight days. “My main creative fuel is limitation,” Fury says of the decision to not use a studio: “in the process of working out a problem, you end up with something more interesting.” The decision to use a church specifically was drawn from his religious childhood. “I had a lot of very confusing experiences within the church growing up – recording in a church made the whole thing more intense, and amplified the discomfort of those experiences I was writing about.”

Although very much a solo songwriter, Bingo Fury’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.