Bristol’s Grandmas House have released their long-awaited debut album, ‘Baby You’re A Winner’, via Brace Yourself Records.
Speaking of the album’s arrival, Grandmas House offer: “We are so excited to finally release our debut album into the world. It feels like a time capsule of all the hard times we’ve faced together, and a testament to the love and friendship the four of us share. We’re so proud of ourselves for what we have created, these are songs to dance, cry and scream along to and we hope everyone loves them as much as we do.”
Alongside the album’s arrival comes a final single from it, in the guise of the mesmerising ‘Dance’, and a suitably hypnotic accompanying video that places the album’s eerie unofficial mascot – the headless man himself – front and centre.
Another prime example of the expanded vision across ‘Baby You’re A Winner’, ‘Dance’ sees the band make deft use of dynamics as Yasmin Berndt’s urgent, rallying vocals collide with tumultuous instrumental breakdowns, snaking guitar leads and blasts of sax from Fat Dog’s Morgan Wallace.
Of ‘Dance’, the band explain: “This song is about feeling low and alone. Feeling reminiscent of times when you weren’t lonely. Maybe because you were in love. It’s a reminder to keep going, whilst dancing the pain away.”
Prior to release, the album has been teased by a string of singles – ‘Blue Oblivion’, ‘The Table’, ‘Baby You’re A Winner’ and ‘DOG’ – which taken together display much of the dexterous use of vocal harmonies and widescreen arrangements that define ‘Baby You’re A Winner’. It’s a set of songs that see the band – alongside producer Ali Chant (PJ Harvey, Perfume Genius, Yard Act) – showcasing a real levelling up of ambition: more layered and involved than their trio of previous EPs – ‘Grandmas House’ (2021), ‘Who Am I’ (2023), ‘Anything For You’ (2025). The singles have drawn praise and support so far from the likes of BBC 6 Music, DIY, BBC Radio 1, Clash, Dork, Radio X, The Line of Best Fit, Apple Music 1, Wonderland and more.
‘Baby You’re A Winner’ finds the quartet – Yasmin Berndt (vocals, guitar), Poppy Dodgson (vocals, drums), Zoë Zinsmeister (bass, vocals) and Polly Jessett (guitar) – bringing a greater sense of nuance and space to their music, while deploying myriad genres to maximum effect. From the righteous, elasticated rock of ‘DOG’ to the syncopated post-punk and brass blasts of ‘Dance’ and on to the chamber folk ambiance of closer ‘Spring’, ‘Baby You’re A Winner’ is the most authentic, realised portrait of Grandmas House to date.
The songs here navigate a precarious balancing act between sadness and catharsis, ultimately landing in a place of salvation – the product of the band’s tight-knit friendship, this album is their gift to the world, born from a period of grief and hardship but emerging from the other side with profound love and strength. It’s a testament that even when the odds are against you, anyone can be a winner.
“We wrote this album about the existential crisis of going through life,” explain the band. “It’s about love and infatuation but also about grief and loneliness. It’s emotional, powerful, sad and a good time all at once.”
It’s been a hugely successful year already for the band on the live front, including a much-lauded stint at SXSW as well as a largely sold-out European tour with shows in Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium and France, and recent UK festival dates at The Great Escape, Dot To Dot, Bearded Theory, Kendal Calling, 2000 Trees and more, as well as holding a sold-out listening party in Bristol with a special Grandmas House-designed beer produced in collaboration with The Bristol Beer Factory. The band have toured prodigiously in recent years, opening for Big Special on a recent UK tour and for Arxx across Europe and supporting the likes of Idles, Pigsx7, Katy J Pearson, TV Priest and more, while they also recently sold-out their own headline tour of Germany in 2025 and have hit up festivals including Reading & Leeds, Sŵn, Green Man and more.
The band’s early EPs and singles have been widely lauded at UK press and radio, with praise from the likes of NME, DIY, Clash, Dork, The Line of Best Fit, So Young, Loud and Quiet and countless others, and radio support from Steve Lamacq, Chris Hawkins, Craig Charles, New Music Fix and Amy Lamé on BBC 6 Music, Jack Saunders on BBC Radio 1, Matt Wilkinson on Apple 1, John Kennedy on Radio X and more.
Grandmas House are currently embarking on a headline tour that has been taking them all around the British Isles and the continent. Their Sussex concert is still to come and will be taking place at The Hope & Ruin on Friday 20th November with support coming from Currls – Tickets HERE.
Remaining Grandmas House tour dates are as follows:
Nov 17th | London, UK – Oslo
Nov 20th | Brighton, UK – Hope & Ruin
Nov 21st | Bristol, UK – Thekla
Nov 24th | Glasgow, UK – Nice N Sleazy
Nov 25th | Manchester, UK – Soup
Nov 27th | Nottingham, UK – Bodega
