Gilla Bandhave announced their new album ‘Pugnello’ and shared theabrasivenew track ‘Placeholder’ –checkit out below.
The influential Dublin group,formerly known as Girl Band,havenot released a studio album since their third record ‘Most Normal’ in 2022, but they are now back with details of their fourthLP.
‘Pugnello’willarrive on September 25 via Rough Trade Records,produced by Gilla Band and recorded and mixed by bassist Daniel Fox– pre-order ithere.It will includethe band’s recent single ‘Giraffe’,their first new song in four years, as well as thenewly shared ‘Placeholder’.
The new trackis based around an abrasive, head-pounding synthetic bed,with singer Dara Kiely turning anxious childhood memories and intrusive thoughts into abrooding, distorted hellscape.
Check it out here:
Speaking about ‘Placeholder’,Kielyhassaid: “In this track I try toanalysemy mental quirks by exploring my comfort distractions.Reverting back to childhood nostalgia – as an escape.The memories seeping into my day-to-day adult life.
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“Representing personal mental healthbehavioursvia outdated pop culture such as the anxious tension set by Davina McCall’s silence when announcing aBig Brothereviction, or the fight or flight that Harold Lloyd surely experienced when holding on to a clock for dear life, and all for our entertainment.
“I mentionPower Rangersat the end of this. It was another comfort vice. They were a huge thing for me as a child. I remember I was at some sort of Christian summer camp when I was about six and was asked what I want to be when I grow up. Isaid‘a Power Ranger’.I was laughed at and was told the shocking truth that theydidn’texistand it is not a profession worth pursuing.I’venever forgiven them for that.
Kiely also pointed to one lyric from the song:“‘I’m injecting a lethal dose of nothing. I’m blaring a dangerous amount of Coldplay’… True story.”
Gilla Band have also announced two special intimate UK shows for this October, including a date at Manchester’s White Hotelon October 7,ahead ofthe venue’sclosure in January, and a show at London’s ICAon October 8,where they will perform in the round.These join their previously announced European and US tour dates, the full list of which can be foundhere.Find ticketshere.
Thetracklistfor ‘Pugnello’ is:
- ‘The Angelus’
- ‘Placeholder’
- ‘Alogia’
- ‘Three Hands Clapping’
- ‘Jacobsons’
- ‘TheMegazord’
- ‘ComputerSadness’
- ‘Giraffe’
- ‘Crisp Pop’
- ‘The Gallop’
Across 2015’s ‘Holding HandsWithJamie’, 2019’s ‘The Talkies’ and 2022’s ‘Most Normal’, Gilla Band have built a reputation as one of the most singular guitar bands of their generation, combining elements of post-punk, noise-rock and industrial music into something stranger and more idiosyncratic.
Last year,the band’s guitarist Alan Duggan Borges launched a new project called The Null Club, with a debut EP featuring collaborations with members ofThe HorrorsandMandy, Indiana.