Музыка и песни Girls Names / Girls Names на CD

Reissue of "The New Life" on CD with an additional 6 songs. Belfast-based four-piece GIRLS NAMES are a singular proposition, both geographically and psychically removed from their contemporaries at home and abroad. Having released a series of singles and EPs on various independent labels, GIRLS NAMES made their first significant impression on the wider world in 2011 with their debut album, "Dead To Me", earning plaudits from the likes of Pitchfork, NME and Loud & Quiet amongst a host of others. "The New Life" stands as a brave statement; the mark of the band untying themselves from the past and easing forth into the unknown. "The New Life is a must listen (8/10)" - NME Record Label: Tough Love Style: Independent

Northern Ireland's GIRLS NAMES return with their third full-length album, "Arms Around a Vision". For fans of: The Horrors, These New Puritans, The Cure, Savages, Deerhunter, Toy, Ice Age, Fire Engines, Wire. Girls Names formed in Belfast, but they've long considered themselves a European band. Their last album, "The New Life", was an unexpected worldwide underground hit in early 2013, culminating in nominations for both the Northern Irish and Irish Music Prizes. Emboldened by the reception to that record, they returned with an 11-minute single. Typically, it does not feature on their new album. Girls Names like to do things a little differently. On "Arms Around a Vision", they're more widescreen than ever but also more direct and aggressive. The bass, drums and guitars are still there, but so are saxophones, organs, detuned broken guitars and pianos, and even sheets of metal assaulted with hammers. Conceptually, Arms Around a Vision acts as a love letter to European elegance - Italian futurism, Russian constructivism, Germany's Zero Group and both Neubauten and Bowie's Berlin. Love and pain, romance and fucking. It's all in there somewhere. An album that treads a course between Eno-era Roxy sleaze, Birthday Party dissonance and M.E.S' three R's: repetition, repetition, repetition. While the songs aren't narrative-driven as such - the band still generally favour abstraction and ambiguity - there is a consistent underlying message: "We've got nothing. We've never had anything. And we don't expect to. The only person I ever wanted to impress was myself. I've never got anywhere close to succeeding in doing that until this album." Record Label: Tough Love Style: Independent

Record Label: Tough Love Style: Independent

Belfast-based four-piece GIRLS NAMES are a singular proposition, both geographically and psychically removed from their contemporaries at home and abroad. Their second album "The New Life" is the sound of a band on the fringes striving to forge their own path, purposefully out of step - and time - with their surroundings. Weighed heavy with the grey landscapes of their hometown, "The New Life" is isolation laid bare, shot through with an undeterred sense of purpose and individuality. Having released a series of singles and EPs on various independent labels, GIRLS NAMES made their first significant impression on the wider world in 2011 with their debut album, "Dead To Me". As soon as that record was released Girls Names were already moving into a different headspace. The band's performance at the 2012 Primavera festival provided them with their first real opportunity to showcase the songs that were to comprise "The New Life". The sunshine backdrop of the Spanish coastline offered a somewhat incongruous setting to the eerie dissonance of the new material, a kind of trial by fire metamorphosis rapturously received. Following a tour of Europe, the band returned home to record the album over a series of months. Having been produced by singer and songwriter, Cathal Cully, they've managed to capture that sense of otherness the performances at Primavera hinted at. The expansion to a four piece means the garage-clatter of the spritely pop songs of their debut have been replaced by a deeper, shadowy exercise in catharsis, driven by repetition, psychedelia and Dionysian crisis. The album's title track, and the first single to be taken from the album is 8 minutes long and rotates around a hypnotic bass line, and in Cully's evocation of renaissance, offers a perfect metaphor for the album as a whole. The second single "Hypnotic Regression" reflects another side to the record. The reverb-heavy guitars and compelling melody are immediately memorable, but there are signs of experimentation, too; the white squall of the lead break; the uneasiness in the vocal echoes that furnish the verses. As such, "The New Life", stands as a brave statement; the mark of the band untying themselves from the past and easing forth into the unknown. Record Label: Tough Love Style: Independent