Brighton garage band Oral Habit release a single on 50 red seven-inches
Heimlich Remover came out on Friday. The vinyl-only B-side is a cover of Love's A House Is Not A Motel, and the trio headline Alphabet in January.
Brighton garage rock trio Oral Habit released a new single, Heimlich Remover, on Friday. It is on Bandcamp as a download from £3, and as a red seven-inch record, limited to 50 copies, from £13.
The band is brothers Charlie and Felix Hales, with Tippi Lewis on bass. Their Bandcamp page calls them “the ear rattling dream of choked up acid punks”. Brighton Source, which wrote up the release, hears a motorik krautrock beat under the fuzz.
The song chugs along on one chord for just under four minutes. The vinyl is lathe cut in translucent red, and its B-side, a cover of Love’s A House Is Not A Motel, is only on the record. Copies ship on or around 9 November.
It is their second release this year, after A Broken Chord in June. Before that came the Garage Frock! EP in July 2025 and Cardiovascular Spectacular in April 2024. Brighton Source says the three are back in the studio.
Their next Brighton date will be their largest headline show yet, according to Brighton Source. Acid Box presents Oral Habit at Alphabet on Saturday 23 January, from 6.30pm. Tickets are £9.18 on Dice, and the gig is 18+.
Sources
- Heimlich Remover, by Oral Habit (Bandcamp)
- Oral Habit (Oral Habit)
- Oral Habit + Support, 23 Jan, Alphabet, Brighton (Dice)
- Oral Habit Release New Single (Brighton Source)
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