Balancing Act have announced their debut album ‘Who’ve You Come As?’, arriving in October

Balancing Act have announced their debut album ‘Who’ve You Come As?’, with part one set to arrive on 3rd October.

The London-via-Manchester quartet recorded the album in a friend’s studio in the French countryside, working alongside Joe Woolf. The collection was later completed in London with SFJ, who previously recorded the band’s first EP.

Following their previous EPs, 2022’s ‘Malice In Tone’ and 2024’s ‘Tightropes and Limericks’, the band have developed their creative process and sound. “The music that was coming out of us just naturally felt like it wanted to be part of something more than another EP,” vocalist Kai Roberts explains. “It’s been two years in the making, it can take a while to explore every avenue and throw out some of the bad apples, but we feel like we’ve hit on something very exciting and truly our own. We were far more critical and cutthroat in the actual songwriting process. Parts wouldn’t just sit in the song for the sake of it, they had to scrap and brawl for their place within it. We were focused on discovering an atmosphere in the music that felt bigger than us. Everyone was open to inspiration coming from anything and anywhere.”

The album’s title draws inspiration from their Manchester roots, with the band sharing: “The album is called Who’ve You Come As? It’s a funny Manc phrase we use if someone had a haircut or turned up to the pub in a new and probably quite daring jacket for example. But a slang term slowly took on a bigger meaning to us, your first album is your first offering into the world and the most honest depiction of your band. Quite literally, who you’re coming as.”

‘Who’ve You Come As? Part 1’ features seven tracks: ‘Talks A Lot’, ‘Scar’, ‘Bonneville Salt Flat Jive’, ‘Had Another Mare’, ‘Mr Handsome’, ‘Quebec’, and ‘The Breaks’.

Their dates in full read:

AUGUST
24 Victorious Festival, Portsmouth, UK

SEPTEMBER
20 Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg, DE

OCTOBER
3 Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, UK
5 Heartbreakers, Southampton, UK
6 Yellow Arch, Sheffield, UK
7 Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh, UK