Cardiff’s Why Horses? don’t so much enter a room as kick the door off its hinges. Their new single “I Got A Fever” from the debut EP Yeah, Hi? is a breathless cocktail of psychobilly swagger, post-disco pulse, and lo-fi grit that positions them as one of the most exciting acts to break out of South Wales this year.
From the opening bars, “I Got A Fever” throbs with manic urgency, a beat that feels stitched together from both nightclub sweat and garage chaos. Guitars slice and jitter, basslines lurch with funk-soaked menace, and vocals teeter between sneer and shout, riding the edge of delirium. It’s the kind of track that feels like it could collapse under its own manic energy at any moment, but instead, it tightens into a propulsive groove that dares you not to move.
What makes Why Horses? so compelling is the way they bend genres until they squeal. There’s a punkish irreverence in the way they crash styles together—psycho-rockabilly riffs collide with rubbery disco rhythms, lo-fi textures fuzz against sharp hooks—yet nothing feels stitched-on. Instead, it’s a fever dream of influences that lands with conviction and attitude.
Coming via the brilliantly DIY-spirited label BBWGiBWGAN (pronounced “Boogie-Boogan,” and fittingly meaning “Ghost Disco”), Yeah, Hi? already feels like a statement of intent. With BBC 6 Music’s Emily Pilbeam and Radio Wales’ Adam Walton throwing early support behind them, the band are clearly turning heads beyond Cardiff’s borders.
As they gear up for hometown shows this autumn, including a slot at Sŵn Festival, Why Horses? sound less like scene newcomers and more like ringleaders in waiting. “I Got A Fever” is raw and restless, it’s the sound of a band burning hot, right out of the gate.
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