In the crowd at Bassvictim’s Warsaw show

When Bassvictim dropped their first music in 2023, they instantly got a lot of people talking. The London-based duo – featuring Polish singer Maria Manow and American producer Henry ​‘Ike’ Clateman – dubbed their disorientating and distortion-damaged style ​‘basspunk’, churning out euphoric and trashy underground anthems like Canary Wharf Drift and Air on a G String. With their no-budget visual aesthetic and their chaotic Instagram stories, they attracted more attention than most PR-friendly new bands could hope for.

2025 has been a banner year for Bassvictim. In January they dropped the album Bassspunk 2 and they evolved their sound for November’s LP Forever, which was recorded at a resident sauna-studio in rural Norway. Maria and Ike embarked on a 23 date tour across North America and Europe, concluding with shows earlier this month in Poznań, Warsaw and Kraków. Having grown up in the small city of Bydgoszcz, Maria proudly reps her heritage with the occasional Polish lyric and ad-lib onstage and in the studio. So understandably, the Polish fans went wild.

THE FACE commissioned Warsaw-based photographer Wera Novak to shoot the action at the city’s Odessa Club.