(They changed their name to Gilla Band in late 2021: “We just didn’t feel like it was on, for the four of us to be called Girl Band any more,” says Duggan.) Other influences included hard-edged techno, bloody-minded US noisers Pissed Jeans and, says Kiely, “pretty much every artist name-checked on LCD Soundsystem’s Losing My Edge”. No wave was the primary inspiration for their new group, Girl Band. We thought we were gonna be massive.” He grins: “Thank God nothing happened.” “Arctic Monkeys had a real fucking chokehold over our generation.” Nevertheless, Duggan says there was “some interest from Sony Ireland. They weren’t always this way: in their teens, three-quarters of Gilla Band were members of Dublin indie rockers Harrows. This turbulent masterpiece is the work of musicians committed to the creative possibilities within discomfiting sounds. “If there’s a linear progression happening through these records, this next record should feel like you’re wandering through a dreamscape.” But for all his talk of reading up on “dream cycles and circadian rhythms”, Most Normal’s vibe is closer to nightmare, its wilful rollercoaster of noise strafing listeners with distortion as Kiely pinballs between surrealist gabble and desperate, paint-stripping howls.
Their second, 2019’s The Talkies, “opened with him having a panic attack and ended with him breathing calmly”, he explains. Their first, 2015’s Holding Hands With Jamie, ended with frontman Dara Kiely screaming.
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