Post-industrial, South Yorkshire modulatory desolation. Barnsley is something of a backwater compared to Leeds or Sheffield, but the Bruja and friends have created a DIY junk-punk scene that has seen them hosting their own gigs, pressing up CDs, booking tours and making their own analogue VHS Videos to lighten the depressing reality of zero hours contracts in the service industry, unemployment and increasing xenophobic hostility.
The trio’s name means ‘Witch’ in Spanish and is inspired by drummer Zach’s recurring childhood nightmares of being chased by a Witch.
All three members are nature lovers but guitarist Giannis takes it a step further by being a keen caver and spent weeks living like ‘Stig of the Dump’ in the woods. Delyth’s first experience of rock was seeing The Eagles with her dad aged 8 but this band's influences range from Drop Nineteens, Pavement to Deerhunter but with a effect addiction and a super drum heavy sound that sonically paints them closer to The Butthole Surfers.