Clocking in at almost 50 minutes, The New Life is a long-form evolution for Girls Names. The band’s 2011 debut Dead to Me was filled with staccato bursts of ’80s indie pop clangs, thrashed out with the sort of breathless urgency that suggested the Belfast trio-since upgraded to a quartet-had its eyes on something much more substantial. Turns out it did: the follow-up. (via Girls Names: The New Life (SLUMBERLAND) | Under The Radar)
Girls Names have confirmed a list of new tour dates, including SXSW and their next London show with Merchandise. More TBC
March
10th - Cameo, Brooklyn, NYC
11th - SXSW, Northern Irish Music Showcase - Latitude 30 - 8:45pm
13th - SXSW, Slumberland Records Showcase - Time TBC
14th - SXSW, Under…
“The New Life is a must listen” – NME (8/10)
“Girls Names is slowly becoming a band for all seasons” – Pitchfork
“Girls Names make sadness moreish and hypnotic” - The Fly (4/5)
“A marvellously murky, ill-tempered rush before impending doom” - Noisey
“In terms of a band upping their…