Will Balu Brigada be the rock revelation of this 2025?

The new rock sensation to keep an eye on in this 2025 comes from New Zealand. They are called Balu Brigada, they trained in 2016 in Auckland, they have several singles, a pair of EP and a compilation, they were the shoulder at the Twenty One Pilots on the recent tour in the United States and in the coming months they will try to consecrate themselves As one of the most interesting realities of the contemporary rock scene. Preparing to tread the stages of large international festivals, as protagonists: starting from the Sziget Festival of Budapest, among the most anticipated appointments of the great European summer music season, where they will perform on August 7.

And just by the summer the brothers Henry and Pierre Beasley, respectively solo guitar and voice and keyboard, should release the expected debut album. On Spotify they have two hits that in recent years have made interesting numbers: one is “designer”, released in the spring of 2023, an interesting mix of indie and soul that allowed the quartet to collect 17 million streams on the platform. Fans of football video games will instead play their “So Cold” very familiar: released last June, the song ended in the official soundtrack of EA Sports FC 25, the old Fifa, in the midst of the successes of the Coldplay, of Sia, of Billie Eilish, by St. Vincent, of the Kasabian, of the Fontaines DC is a more angular, more rough piece, which holds the expectations around the album in the right of arrival.

Originally the band was called Baloo: a tribute to the homonymous character of the Disney animation classic “The jungle book”.

The boys chose to change the name at Balu Brigada because they feared to run the risk of finding themselves dealing with legal problems with Disney. With Henry and Pierre there was also his brother, Charles, drummer, and bassist Guy Harrison, who however left the group relatively early. «We only made the first two concerts, because our youngest brother Pierre was 15 years old, so we couldn’t really get it into the bars, when he became big enough to be able to go through the cracks, we started playing in four , having a band with your brothers creates an interesting dynamic, “they say. .

After conquering the interest of Warner Music with the first self -produced individuals, the Balu Brigada signed a contract with the multinational and moved from Auckland to New York, looking for the turning point. A sign that something was happening by the Balu Brigada received it when the criticism reserved for him enthusiastic reviews on the occasion of the opening shows of the Tour of Twenty One Pilots, talking about “Activating alt-pop riff”.

The adventure alongside the Twenty One Pilots will also continue in the first months of this 2025, which will see the Balu Brigada continue to be the shoulder to the band on the dates of the South American tour. Their first Headliner tour will start on February 27 from Los Angeles. It will be titled “Can’t Be Your Dog”: will it also be the title of the disc?