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Belgian indie quartet Bat Eyes return today with 'Belly,' a perfect slap of summery reverb and distortion pop that deals with the aftermath of a breakup, walking away from a certain situation. Part of you feels confident, while another part feels empty and keeps questioning things. Up to the point where you realize all this overthinking is just slowing you down.

“I had the verse of the song laying around for quite a while, but it was just a loop”, singer Koen Wijnant explains, “I felt like it needed something more before we could tackle it on rehearsal. I wrote this Pixies/Bone Machine kind of chorus, just to have some variation, and it instantly gelled nicely. After we recorded the ascending outro, it turned out to be one of our favourites.”

Formed as a 3-piece in 2019 when frontman Koen Wijnant decided to record a full album out of the home demos he had been piling up, they upgraded to a 4-piece by early 2020. With Luna De Bruyne on bass/vocals duties, Tomas Serrien on drums and Birger Ameys on guitar the band self-released 3 singles. "Loria", "You're the Breeze" and "Saving Up" are glimmering guitar-pop songs spiked with a healthy dose of melancholy, never to be retro.