Instrumental phrases repeat across the record at varying levels of degradation, from full pelt to ghostly apparition. And Most Normal is unmistakably lab work. Once the pandemic limited touring, their rehearsal space became a refuge where they could hang out, get drunk, and push extremes, working with zero concern for how they would ever play their third album live. They spent two years writing the 2019 follow-up The Talkies, happy enough to let people assume the group had disbanded as they toiled in private on a masterpiece of panic and deconstruction. Their distance from mainstream success gave them the space to hone their brutal and exhilarating approach.Īfter releasing their discomfiting 2015 debut, Holding Hands With Jamie, Gilla Band canceled tours so that Kiely could prioritize a mental health emergency. From their breakout song-a distinctly condemned cover of techno producer Blawan’s “Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage?”-Gilla Band ( fka Girl Band) refused to act like a rock band (pretty much the smartest thing any outfit of that ilk can do today). “And we’re still fucking, er, very much not. “It’s nuts watching it ’cause they’re all like rock stars now,” Duggan said recently. and the Murder Capital followed in their frenzied (and putatively post-punk) wake. Despite a slight catalog, they’ve become one of the most influential bands of their generation in the British and Irish Isles-not least at home in Ireland, where the likes of Fontaines D.C. Most Normal is Gilla Band’s third album in eight years. By the time the song ends, Gilla Band are spinning up clouds of outer-planetary ash. And sure enough, within 40 seconds, Kiely is howling “I’ll brain you!” and Faulkner’s tidy beat suddenly sounds like he’s whipping static.
Though three of Gilla Band cop to being in a teenage Strokes rip-off band, the four-piece (completed by bassist Daniel Fox) could not exist any further from that kind of rock orthodoxy. Not only that, guitarist Alan Duggan plays straightforward chiming chords, and in a tone that immediately suggests the ebullient cockiness of Is This It-era Strokes. But perhaps the funniest moment comes at the start of “Almost Soon.” On an album where Gilla Band became studio rats determined to push every sound to a mutant extreme, here is Most Normal’s lone immediately identifiable guitar.
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