Bassvictim
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Bassvictim is a London duo - Polish-English singer Maria Manow and American-English producer Ike Clateman - who met as Goldsmiths students and formed the act in 2022. They call their sound 'basspunk': blown-out distorted bass and hard-edged club drums under feverish, nostalgia-soaked vocals, drawing equally on electroclash, hyperpop and witch house. Their 2025 debut album Forever put them at the front of an electroclash revival, and the softer 2026 EP '?' showed they can pull the bass out entirely and still land. For a PNW crowd this is a rave act playing rock rooms - all-ages shows at the Showbox and the Crystal Ballroom, closer to a punk gig than a DJ set.
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What listeners say
Critics and show-goers agree on the same thing: Bassvictim is loud, messy and physical, and that is the point. Pitchfork gave Forever a 7.5 and ranked it #49 on its 2025 albums list, praising production that is 'thickset yet deceptively simple', and NME credits the duo with helping drive an electroclash renaissance. Live reviews describe rooms that move as one unit, sweltering and thrashing, with Manow's more emotional tracks sung back at her. The clearest reservation is directional rather than performance-based - the 2026 EP '?' pulled the bass out for ballads and acoustic textures, and while Pitchfork still scored it 72, its language was cooler ('low-stakes', 'microwaved lullabies') and some listeners preferred Forever.
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Gathered 2026-08-24 (high confidence) from musicbrainz.org, en.wikipedia.org, wikidata.org, relish.blog.fordham.edu, nme.com, wecb.live, onestowatch.com, albumoftheyear.org, albumoftheyear.org, news.google.com, https://www.deezer.com search API — artist image via exact case-insensitive name match, highest fan count