End of the year: Irascible recommends...

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Irascible recommends you... our 2022 most successful artists !
Alice Torrent - Fomies - Capital Youth - IURI - Batbait - Komet City - Melicious

Dear journalist,

Once again this year, we've had the chance to work with many, many incredible Swiss artists ! So let us share with you, one more time, the ones that have deeply impacted our country's indie musical map, hoping that they may enlighten your personal Top 10s, parties and other family diners.

As for me, it's been a huge honour to collaborate with you ! It is a real relief, in the midst of a global doldrum, to be able to share and exchange independent music from our country with such loyal and passionate people. Thank you.

I am already looking forward to meeting you all next year for new artistic adventures.
'til then, take good care of yourself and your loved ones and dance with joy to this very strange end of the year!

Arnaud / Irascible

Batbait (CH/Zürich)
Album: «Dirty Clothes» (Irascible Records; release: 16.09.2022)

Garage-rock / Post-punk

On "Dirty Clothes", Batbait set the tone with their blend of garage-rock and post-punk, offering ten varied accounts of real-life experiences that cling to clothes like smells; clothes that are found in piles in everyone's home, full of memories. On their debut album, Batbait leave as much room for melancholy as they do for ecstasy.

Links: EPK

Melicious (CH/Basel)
EP: «Risky Business» (Release: 02.12.2022)

Electro-pop, Indie-pop

Dreamy and intimate: Melicious is not afraid of vulnerability. The Swiss artist sings with an open heart on her very first EP "Risky Business", addressing breakups, mental health and emotional chaos. Comforting and melancholic electro-indie-pop songs to navigate the hazy landscapes of entering adulthood.

Links: EPK

Alice Torrent (CH/Valais)
Album «An Ode to your Sun» (Release: 11.11.2022)

Dark Inde-Pop/Folk

Alice Torrent returns with "An Ode to your Sun", a second record oscillating between the sobriety of the piano/voice and the grandeur of indie-pop sometimes flirting with post-metal ambiances. Twelve tracks with pure firepower, distilling their share of soaring atmospheres worthy of the Icelandic nature where the record was written.

Links: EPK

Fomies (CH/Vaud)
Album: «Sudden Lag» (Hummus Records / Irascible Records / release: 21.10.2022)

Psych-Fuzz-Noise

If Reversal, Fomies' previous release, called for the upheaval of a society in absolute loss of control, it is clear that a year later nothing has changed. It is therefore with resignation, hours of solitary confinement, infinite jams and analog material that the band decided to blow, by themselves, a new wind onto their liberating kraut/fuzz rock.

Links: EPK

IURI (CH/Bâle)
EP: «Grow Small» (Release: 04.11.2022)

Indie-Pop

An old soul in a young body - Basel iuri's debut EP is a collection of 6 tracks so mature and deep it's hard to believe they're the work of someone barely 26. And yet iuri describes the feeling of a generation born in a world of growing uncertainty, bound to find stability in one way or another. "Grow Small" impressively demonstrates how to achieve this.

Links: EPK

Capital Youth (CH/Genève)
Album : «Perfect Timing» (Roosevelt Records / release: 11.11.2022)

Post-Punk / Indie-Rock / Rock'n'Roll

'Perfect Timing' by Capital Youth was recorded at the beginning of 2021 when everything was at a standstill. Sparing the band some time to work out the finest details of this 12 track record the band already considers to be a real culmination to their 5 years of activity.

Links: EPK

Komet City (CH/Genève)
Album : «Don't Go to Strangers: A tribute to the Tulsa Sound under the loving light of J.J. Cale» (release: 09.12.2022)

Rock / J.J. Cale

"During 4 days, with two musicians from Geneva, also friends and JJ Cale fans (Augustin Von Arx and Joe Baamil), then a second session with other musicians from Geneva (Léonard Gremaud, Thomas Abbet, Léonard Persoz), we set the foundations of this record. Once the foundations were laid, I had what I wanted. A story in 14 tracks that retraces my vision of the man's career."

Links: EPK