Birmingham newcomers GANS announced the release of their debut album Good for the Soul, on September 19^th via Peter Doherty’s Strap Originals label. It is anticipated by the new single ‘It’s Just Life’.

For Gans, a duo of borderless noise-makers with intensity at the core of what they do, it’s the world around them, and specifically their upbringing, that roots them in their sound. Growing up in working class areas of the Black Country to parents who worked in factories and mills has helped define an approach that seeks to merge uneasy realism with horizon-chasing escapism.

Drummer and vocalist Euan Woodman expands: “It’s Just Life is about that feeling we all have – the eternal chase for the grass being greener on the other side. And it isn’t, no matter what we do it always comes back to the same old sh*t of living in our minds and having to deal with it all, no matter where we end up on the planet. That’s just life isn’t it.”

Continuing about the album, he says: “Good for the Soul was the ultimate journey for us. You have your entire life to write a debut record and this is ours. 24 years of life distilled through noises and vibrations. We went to the Welsh countryside in December 2024 to write the record. We hired a cottage for 10 days, armed ourselves with enough food, booze, weed and music to listen to that would keep us inspired, and we wrote about 15/16 songs. It was an idyllic place with a little brook flowing in the garden – all very Led Zeppelin.

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