Album · Catfish and the Bottlemen
The Balance by Catfish and the Bottlemen
The Balance is an album by Catfish and the Bottlemen, released in 2019. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 19 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Longshot”, on 11 lists with a best position of #6.
The Balance, Catfish and the Bottlemen's third album, landed on 26 April 2019, and the Llandudno band stick to what they know: big, bruising guitars, Van McCann's hoarse, hook-first yelp and choruses built to be bellowed back from festival fields. Lead single "Longshot" went to number 25 on the UK singles chart, their highest placing there, and the album itself climbed to number two, a notch below where The Ride had landed.
Critics were split, but nobody could accuse it of lacking punch. The band took it straight out on a European tour that April, and it turned out to be the last record with drummer Bob Hall and guitarist Johnny Bond, both gone by 2021, leaving McCann and bassist Benji Blakeway to carry on.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from The Balance on radio countdowns
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.