Basht. - Poor Advice

Facts Debut album from rising Dublin-based band Basht., released via LAB Records. Poor Advice is a bruising concept album that traces the tangled wires between power and those crushed beneath it. Across 10 tracks, it maps the long-standing relationship between church and state in Ireland, where pulpits and governments traded sermons for policy, shaping a generation through guilt, silence, and obedience. It then pulls that thread into the present, following how moral authority has been outsourced to boardrooms and barracks, with the military-industrial complex running like a grim metronome: conflict brewed, weapons sold, grief managed, contracts renewed. Poor Advice takes it's title from the counsel handed down from above: keep your head down, say your prayers, trust the deal.