Holding Hands With Jamie
Dense, uncompromising and utterly thrilling, this debut album is an explosive introduction to four (decidedly male) Dubliners who bring an unflinching post-rock eye and a crackle of dark wit to frontman Dara Kiely’s personal experiences with anxiety and depression. “In Plastic” sees Kiely, in his distinctive shamanic drawl, thrashing amid a maelstrom of swirling guitars while “Baloo” is an energetic showcase for their industrial dance influences. But it\'s “Paul”–with its rumbling surf licks and pogoing beat–that\'s probably the most potent reminder that, goofy moniker aside, Girl Band should be taken very seriously.
After some fairly rough—if creatively fruitful—mental times, Dara Kiely brings heavy vibes and great songs to Girl Band's new album. Should you laugh? Holding Hands With Jamie is as discomfiting as Kiely’s mental state.
It's becoming an all-too-rare thing to run into albums that take the raw material of rock music and assemble them into entirely new structures. You recognize where the pieces and ideas originated from, but you might never have dreamed of putting them together like that.
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Having checked that yes, this is an album – and not a cake made by hyper-active children with every conceivable ingredient thrown somewhere in the general direction of the oven – the Dublin quartet’s highly anticipated debut isn’t easily forgotten.
Girl Band recently released a dizzying batch of tracks called The Early Years, and while some listeners are still revelling in the EP's diso...
Girl Band by name, girl band by nature? Not this one. The Irish quartet are all male purveyors of guttural noise punk whose debut LP Holding Hands With Jamie is as searing as it comes.
Review of the new album from Girl Band 'Holding Hands With Jamie' the Irish band's forthcoming release comes out on September 26th via Rough Trade.
The Dublin quartet, once known for a steely sort of post-punk, has graduated into a noise and no wave group, and, in the process, has delivered the sounds of madness in a neat package called Holding Hands with Jamie.