New Music Friday: Girl Band, Noel Gallagher


The Talkes




The long-awaited second studio album from Girl Band and Noel Gallagher‘s latest EP have both been released today on New Music Friday. Check them out below.

It’s four years now since Girl Band’s debut Holding Hands With Jamie, and The Talkies is proving to be a perfectly difficult soundtrack to what has informed those years away; “By this point you are deep inside this record or will long ago have taken an escape pod,” our review concludes.

“For those who relish confronting their own prejudices, at its core are Prefab Castle – a rave symphony for the maladjusted – and Laggard, the glorious soundtrack to a civilisation on the point of collapse. Ultimately Girl Band’s mere existence is assurance that answers, clarity and meaning are still disposable pretexts.”

“The Talkies is a record which needs every sinew of your understanding but, if you make it, the world you next wake up in will be yours, and yours alone.”

Noel Gallagher, meanwhile, has released his second High Flying Birds EP of 2019 with more still to come, This Is The Place following Black Star Dancing with three brand new songs and two remixes. “To my ears it sounds like one of those iconic B-sides by The Smiths, only obviously not as good,” he’s said of A Dream Is All I Need To Get By.

“A song that was born very quickly which is always a good sign. Like it’s always existed…somewhere…Manchester probably.”


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