Photo by Aimee Church

In an Instagram post sharing out their latest single, “Hunger”, Russian Baths show their love to scene hero Walter Schreifels who provided an assist in the studio and helped put together the sonic structure behind the latest offering from the Brooklyn underground rockers’ upcoming sophomore effort, Mirror. This is to say, the listen is very Schreifels-coded in the way riffs reel and swirl like buzzsaws and a dizzying motion blur at once. When you’ve got the frontman of Quicksand and Rival Schools in your creative corner, those instincts can’t be wrong, and “Hunger” delivers a dreamy bluster of aggression from Luke Koz and Jess Rees. It’s a side the duo have flirted with through their dark crush of noise rock, post-punk, shoegaze, and post-hardcore afflictions, though the latter of those teeth are fully brandished here. “What if we drink the bleach? Get inside our skin / Disinfect the sin that’s in our chest?,” Koz asks. “What do we have to do / To wash the dirt that’s hid / And kill this feeling?” Posing those questions up front, Russian Baths deep cleaning method of the soul from that point on is one that scrapes well beneath the surface and fills the gut with a burning desire to feel something more…

Directed by: Jade Shames & Aimee Church

Russian Bath’s Mirror will be released June 14th on Good Eye Records.