Since Girl Band called off their hiatus, their announced upcoming LP, The Talkies, couldn't be more highly anticipated. The band's sophomore album, and follow up to the acclaimed Holding Hands With Jamie, comes out September 27th, 2019 via Rough Trade.
Going Norway is the second piece surfacing off the coming record, following the intense Shoulderblades,and it sounds equally nervy and acute, a specimen of sharp post punk superiority, making brilliant use of the writing's repetitiveness and the band's bent for biting, impossible to ignore delivery.
"Going Norway was one of the first tracks we finished," explains vocalist, Dara Kiely, "but the melody actually comes from a track that I wrote about 8 years ago. I saved that melody and brought it up when I didn’t have any ideas left, I was also doing a lot of mindfulness meditation around the time of it, so lyrically I decided not to use any pronouns within the track and the whole album - that came about when I came across this quote from the Buddha which was ‘Nothing is to be clung to as I, me or mine’ - and I removed all that in a way to kind of find an abstract world to live in."
The new song comes with an engaging video directed by Bob Gallagher, and it was produced by the group's own, Daniel Fox, just like the rest of The Talkies, at Ballintubbert House, a stately manor on the outskirts of Dublin. "In many ways the idea behind the album was to make an audio representation of the manor home," comments band member, Alan Duggan.
Video directed and produced by Bob Gallagher
USA Dates
Oct 2nd - Chicago - Beat Kitchen
Oct 4th - Allston, MA - Great Scott
Oct 5th - Philly, PA - Boot and Saddle
Oct 6th - Washington, DC - Songbyrd
Oct 8th - Brooklyn, NY - Elsewhere
UK/ EU Dates
Nov 2nd - Manchester - Academy 2
Nov 5th - London - Electric Ballroom
Nov 7th - Brussels - Botanique (Sold Out)
Nov 8th - Utrecht - Le Guess Who? 2019
Nov 12th - Nov 14th - Paris - La Maroquinerie
Nov 14th - Berlin - Bi Nuu
Nov 22nd - Dublin - Vicar Street (Sold Out)
Nov 23rd - Dublin - Vicar Street
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