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Visit product page →Dublin quintet September Girls return with an impassioned musical and political statement in their new album Age of Indignation, a title that succinctly sums up its inherent anger and restless dissatisfaction. The ten tracks bristle with atmospheric textures and dark-hearted noise, tackling complex subject matter such as feminism, religion and life in Ireland at this point in history along the way.
Formed in Dublin in 2011 and named after the Big Star song (by way of The Bangles), September Girls share songwriting and vocal duties amongst each of the band members. They comprise Paula Cullen on bass, Caoimhe Derwin and Jessie Ward O'Sullivan on guitar, Lauren Kerchner on keys and drummer Sarah Grimes, who debuts her first composition for the band with the closing track 'Wolves'. Oliver Ackermann from A Place To Bury Strangers contributes vocals to 'Jaw on the Floor'.
Age of Indignation follows September Girls'debut Cursing the Sea (2014), an album that enjoyed considerable critical acclaim from the likes of The Guardian, The Fly, NME, The Sunday Times, The Observer and Uncut amongst others, with Time Magazine naming them as one of the 11 best new bands in the world. Since then the band have played slots at SXSW and CMJ as well as UK festivals such as Beacons, Great Escape, and Liverpool Psych Fest, not to mention a mobbed show in Berwick Street for Record Store Day. In late 2014 the band released a four-track EP Veneer, building on the foundations of Cursing the Sea and anticipating Age of Indignation, as they headed down a darker path.
As opposed to their debut album, which was recorded mainly at home, Age of Indignation was recorded at Dublin's Orphan Studios, lending it a more assured, powerful sound. The album opens with the starkly bleak guitar riff of 'Ghost', before the band's political views come to the fore with songs such as 'Jaw on the Floor', which is inspired by both the feminist movement and the 1916 Rising in Ireland, and 'Catholic Guilt', which deals with anger towards the Catholic Church, particularly from the viewpoint of being a woman, referencing the W.B. Yeats poem 'September 1913'. Title track 'Age of Indignation' addresses the ugly side of social media, while lead single 'Love No One' comments on the vacuousness of modern society, mourning a narcissist's inability to see true beauty.
Brutally honest and brilliantly realised, Age of Indignation is a masterful album from a band confident enough to leave their influences behind. Still retaining the swirling psychedelia and intensity of their debut, this time round they are tighter and more controlled, whilst underneath something much darker and urgent is at work. This is music at its most riveting and atmospheric.
Tracklisting:
1. Ghost
2. Jaw On The Floor
3. Catholic Guilt
4. Blue Eyes
5. Age of Indignation
6. Love No One
7. Salvation
8. John of Gods
9. Quicksand
10. Wolves -
Visit product page →12' EP (white vinyl).
January suddenly seems like a terribly long time ago, but if you can cast your mind back that far you may remember a remarkable album released just mere weeks into the then fresh, unsullied year that was 2014.
Full of driving drums, doom-filled fuzz guitars and perfect monochrome vocal harmonies, September Girls'debut album Cursing the Sea shot into the new year with all the excitement, vim and vigour of an outrageous New Year's Eve party. Critics rejoiced and new fans were birthed, kicking and screaming to the front rows of gigs and festivals across the globe. Drawing inspiration from the likes of Phil Spector, The Velvet Underground, The Cure, My Bloody Valentine and The Jesus And Mary Chain, the five-piece play reverb-soaked noise-pop of the finest order and have been described as "a combination of razorwire guitar lines, thudding Moe Tucker beats and girl group melodicism".
Cursing the Sea garnered widespread coverage, with a Guardian New Band of the Day piece, NME radar and 8/10 review and a 4* review in The Fly as well as coverage in The Sunday Times, The Observer and Uncut. The Financial Times said that they were 'like a less malevolent Jesus and Mary Chain - impressive power, conjuring exactly the right balance between noise and sweetness', while Time Magazine no less named them as one of the 11 best new bands in the world. In the intervening months September Girls have been busy on the road, playing SXSW as well as UK festivals such as Beacons, Body & Soul, Great Escape, Stag and Dagger and Wales Goes Pop, not to mention a mobbed show to a packed Berwick Street for Record Store Day. Bobby Gillespie and Andy Weatherall turned up for their show at The Lexington in London and they were invited to support John Spencer Blues Explosion in Dublin.
They are set to play at The Liverpool Psych Fest later this month and CMJ in New York in October. As their year of triumph draws to a close, September Girls return with a brand new four track EP entitled Veneer, recorded deep underground in Guerilla Studios, Dublin. Whilst still retaining their signature drenched feedback sound the tracks have a greater depth and polish than the album recordings. Each of the four tracks is written and sung by a different member of the band.
The perfect way to round off September Girls' incredible year, the Veneer EP builds on the foundations of Cursing The Sea to offer a tantalising glimpse into the band's future as purveyors of the finest dark-hearted pop in town.
Side A:
1. Veneer
2. Black Oil
Side B:
3. Melatonin
4. Butterflies -
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September Girls are a five piece garage rock group hailing from Dublin City. Once described as "sounds from a transistor radio abandoned in a rural cinema", this is reverb soaked noise pop of the finest order - distant layered harmonies, swirling organ & distorted guitars.
Their sound recreates a "Girls In The Garage"- aware take on Spector's Wall of Sound and 80s and 90s noise bands. Formed in September 2011, the band released a cassette on Scotland's Soft Power label in April 2012, which sold out worldwide within a week.
The follow up to that, a 7 single featuring the tracks Green Eyed and Danny Wood, again on Soft Power Records, was released in Oct 2012 and subsequently sold out within weeks. Less than a month after that, September Girls released a three-track 7" on California label Matinée Recordings, featuring the tracks Wanting More, Hells Bells and Man Chats. Talking is the band's 3rd 7 released by the Cork based label Art For Blind.
Tracklisting:
Side A:
Talking
Side B:
Some For Me -
Sold outVisit product page →Heartbeats is taken from the band\'s forthcoming album "Cursing The Sea".
A tale of unrequited love and betrayal, it's is awash with fuzzy guitars, ethereal female vocals and entrancing melodies ' underpinned by a hurt that catches the back of your throat. It's backed by the exclusive B-side "Wasted".
Tracklisting:
1. Heartbeats
2. Wasted
