Gilla Band have announced their new album ‘Pugnello’ and shared the abrasive new track ‘Placeholder’ – check it out below.
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The influential Dublin group, formerly known as Girl Band, have not released a studio album since their third record ‘Most Normal’ in 2022, but they are now back with details of their fourth LP.
‘Pugnello’ will arrive on September 25 via Rough Trade Records, produced by Gilla Band and recorded and mixed by bassist Daniel Fox – pre-order it here. It will include the band’s recent single ‘Giraffe’, their first new song in four years, as well as the newly shared ‘Placeholder’.
The new track is based around an abrasive, head-pounding synthetic bed, with singer Dara Kiely turning anxious childhood memories and intrusive thoughts into a brooding, distorted hellscape.
Check it out here:
Speaking about ‘Placeholder’, Kiely has said: “In this track I try to analyse my 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.
“Representing personal mental health behaviours via outdated pop culture such as the anxious tension set by Davina McCall’s silence when announcing a Big Brother eviction, or the fight or flight that Harold Lloyd surely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 mention Power Rangers at 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. I said ‘a Power Ranger’. I was laughed at and was told the shocking truth that they didn’t exist and it is not a profession worth pursuing. I’ve never 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 Hotel on October 7, ahead of the venue’s closure in January, and a show at London’s ICA on 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 found here. Find tickets here.
The tracklist for ‘Pugnello’ is:
‘The Angelus’
‘Placeholder’
‘Alogia’
‘Three Hands Clapping’
‘Jacobsons’
‘The Megazord’
‘Computer Sadness’
‘Giraffe’
‘Crisp Pop’
‘The Gallop’
Across 2015’s ‘Holding Hands With Jamie’, 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 of The Horrors and Mandy, Indiana.
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