Today, The Bug Club shares the humorously apathetic new single “A Good Day For Dying,” available now on all streaming services from Sub Pop.
The track is from Every Single Muscle, which is The Bug Club’s punkiest offering yet. It recalls both the short, sharp snaps of their very first singles and the grunt of recent releases. So packed is the album with wall-to-wall riffs and lyrical hooks rammed into tight confines that Sam actually asks permission to squeeze in a solo during “A Good Day for Dying.”
He’s given two seconds.
With regard to the lyricism, while Very Human Features did an excellent job of pointing at everyday things and highlighting their absurdity, on Every Single Muscle, The Bug Club looks more closely at themselves. Not so much in an introspective way, though. More in a way an alien might probe a captive specimen on an intergalactic gurney. Horror movies get their “body” subgenre; now, garage rock albums get theirs, too. Self-interested in an entirely new sense of the term, the human form and condition is prodded and inspected from every angle throughout the course of the album. “A Good Day For Dying” is another excellent example of this.
The Bug Club previously announced tour in support of Every Single Muscle begins Saturday, May 9th in Wrexham, UK at The Rockin’ Chair and currently runs through Friday, July 10th in Chicago, IL at Lincoln Hall. Please see a full list of dates below.
May/June/August 2026, UK Shows
Sat. May 09 - Wrexham, UK - The Rockin’ Chair
Thu. May 14 - Manchester, UK - The Eagle
Fri. May 15 - Manchester, UK - The Eagle
Sat. May 16 - Glasgow, UK - The Glad Cafe
Sat. May 23 - London, UK - O2 Academy Brixton*
Mon. Jun. 01- Norwich, UK - Arts Centre
Tue. Jun. 02 - Brighton, Uk - Concorde 2
Wed. Jun. 03 - Bristol, UK - Lantern Hall (Bristol Beacon)
Thu. Jun. 04 - Liverpool, UK - Hangar 34
Fri. Jun. 05 - Leeds, UK - Project House
Sat. Jun. 06 - Barry, UK - Memo Arts Centre
Sat. Aug. 22 - Crickhowell, UK, Green Man Festival
* supporting Super Furry Animals
June/July 2026, CAN/US Shows
Thu. Jun. 18 - Toronto, ON - The Garrison ^
Fri. Jun. 19 - Picton, ON - Matron Brewing ^
Sat. Jun. 20 - Burnstown, ON - Neat ^
Sun. Jun. 21 - Montreal, QC - Foufs ^
Mon. Jun. 22 - Quebec City, QC - Le Centre ^
Wed. Jun. 24 - Charlottetown, PE - Trailside Inn ^
Thu. Jun. 25 - Fredericton, NB - The Cap ^
Fri. Jun. 26 - Halifax, NS - Seahorse ^
Sat. Jun. 27 - Sydney, NS - Daniel’s Ale House ^
Mon. Jun. 29 - Portland, ME - SPACE Gallery
Tue. Jun. 30 - Medford, MA - Deep Cuts
Wed. Jul. 01 - Brooklyn, NY - Elsewhere Rooftop
Thu. Jul. 02 - Philadelphia, PA - Ukie Club
Mon. Jul. 06 - Washington, DC - DC9
Tue. Jul. 07 - Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle Back Room
Wed. Jul. 08 - Asheville, NC - Static Age
Thu. Jul. 09 - Nashville, TN - Blue Room @ Third Man
Fri. Jul. 10 - Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall
^ w/ Boojums
Every Single Muscle will be out May 29th, 2026 worldwide from Sub Pop, and is available to preorder now on CD/LP/all DSPs. LP preorders from megamart.subpop.com in North America, Mega Mart Europe in the UK + EU, and your local record store, will receive the limited Loser Edition opaque blue (NA) and blue vinyl (UK/EU) (all vinyl color editions whilst stock lasts!). Every Single Muscle also features what is likely the band’s most BONKERS cover art to date, illustrated by Ross Willmett.
Every Single Muscle features today’s offering “A Good Day for Dying,” along with approximately 17 other tight and engaging garage-punk numbers like “Watching the Omnibus,” “Yours (If You Want Me),” “Make It Count,” and “My Uncle Warren Drives a Passat.” Every Single Muscle was produced and mixed by Tom Rees at Rat Trap Studios in Cardiff, Wales, and mastered by Mikey Young.
More on The Bug Club here.
What People Are Saying About The Bug Club
“a near-constant stream of two-minute rippers that blend musical urgency with wicked humour and big hooks.” [Every Single Muscle] UNCUT
“Welsh duo The Bug Club have become one of the most reliable DIY-style indie rock groups of the last few years, and the first single from their upcoming album Every Single Muscle does not disappoint. “Watching the Omnibus” is a patented Bug Club ripper that clocks in at just over a minute, packed with hooks and self-deprecating lyrics.” “Indie Basement: Best Songs & Albums of February 2026” - BROOKLYN VEGAN
“There’s another Bug Club single, you see, one that finds them raucously rocking out and harmonizing like it’s the ’60s and “Twist And Shout” is next up on the setlist…see if you don’t fall in love.” [“Yours (If You Want Me)”]. STEREOGUM
The Bug Club
Every Single Muscle
Tracklisting:
1. Miss Wales 2012
2. A Good Day for Dying
3. Make It Count
4. Cut to Black
5. Full Range of Motion
6. Pretty as a Magazine
7. Look Like Me
8. How Can We Be Friends
9. Every Single Muscle
10. Shiny and Wet
11. Semi-Automatic
12. In My Short Life
13. Watching the Omnibus
14. It’s Our Manager David
15. Yours (If You Want Me)
16. All My Clothes Fell Off
17. Third Best Friend
18. My Uncle Warren Drives a Passat
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