Gut is the fourth studio album by American electronic musician Baths. It was released by Basement's Basement on February 21, 2025. It marks his first album in seven years, since his album Romaplasm in 2017. Gut was promoted with the release of its lead single "Sea of Men".
Background and release On December 11, 2024, Wiesenfeld announced that his upcoming album Gut was set to be released on February 21, 2025. According to Pitchfork, Wiesenfeld started working on the project before the pandemic started, and finished it on 2022. About Gut, Wiesenfeld stated that he was "trying to make my feelings make sense by not initially psychoanalyzing them, by instead just having feelings said and put on the table".
In an interview with Justin Moran for the magazine Paper, Wiesenfeld described Gut as an "immediate, nude, adult (and unadulterated), relentless, angry" record, and explained its concept, saying:
Reception Gut was met with critical acclaim. Pitchfork's Eric Torres deemed it as "one of the most fully realized and exhilarating Baths albums to date", praising its "astonishing vulnerability". Similarly, Brian Stout of PopMatters hailed it as a "beautiful" and "potent" record, with some of Wiesenfeld's "warmest", and "most inviting" songs to date, made by such a "singular artist".
Writing for AllMusic, Heather Phares considered the record as a combination of the "maturity and depth" present on Wiesenfeld's previous work, with the "spontaneity of a beginner", making an "impressive" and "expressive" record, which showcases Wiesenfeld's "eloquent" and "hungry" artistic evolution.
Track listing
Credits Credits adapted from Baths' Bandcamp page.
Will Wiesenfeld — vocals; performer; songwriter; composer; live drums (tracks 1, 2, 7); arrangement; mixing; layout Sam Kaufman-Skloff — performer and engineer Casey Deitz — performer and engineer (tracks 3, 8, 10); drum samples (tracks 5, 10, 11); strings (tracks 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11) Phil Hartunian — engineer (at Tropico Beauty) Isaura String Quartet — performers Emily Call — violin Madeline Falcone — violin Betsy Rettig — cello Rita Isabel Andrade — viola Heyshiro Matsuoka / 松岡平四郎 — art Paige Batson — management Heba Kadry — mastering
Release history +Release dates and formats for GutRegionDateFormatLabelVariousFebruary 21, 2025Basement's Basement
See also
List of 2025 albums
References