Bison Hip - Everything That Came Before Was Just Leading up to This (2025) [Hi-Res]

Everything That Came Before Was Just Leading Up To This – the celebration of the release of Glaswegian quintet Bison Hip’s third album. An album that sees the band discover their true identity as purveyors of quality, genre defying, sonic awesomeness. Ten original tracks that address issues everyone can identify with leaving the listener enriched and satisfied whether it be via the descriptive lyrics Paul Sloway delivers in an upbeat fashion or the immersive soundscape unleashed by John Gilmour Smith (guitar), Stephen Radziwonik (keys), Graeme Carswell (bass) and Malcolm Button (drums).

Like a prelude to the curtain rising at a capacity arena show, an atmospheric intro with futuristic keys, jungle style drums, rumbling bass and layers of intense guitar absorbs the listener as the title track commences making a statement with intent. The past five years have seen the band evolve into a cohesive unit. Sloway’s opening refrain ‘Dear God… Been thinking a lot’ adding to the mysticism and intrigue. ‘Reinvented … Starting again’ a song that sees our subject awaken, discovering his true self, as he picks up the pieces from his ‘dead and gone’ past and transforms from ‘a shell of a man’. Joyous choral gang vocals triumphantly celebrate ‘finally meaning something to someone’.