Name: My Arms Around a Vision
Brand: Girls Names

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CD-TLV-083

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2015-10-02

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Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

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5055869502443

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Artist

Girls Names

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Tough Love

Girls Names is a Belfast-based artist known for their affectless post-punk and brittle C86 pop sound. Drawing inspiration from various genres, they have crafted a unique musical style that captivates listeners with its raw energy and emotional depth.

With influences ranging from Eternal Summers to Veronica Falls, Girls Names has carved out their own space in the music scene. Their music resonates with fans of bands like The Babies, Dum Dum Girls, and Vivian Girls, as well as Crystal Stilts and Crocodiles.

Girls Names' discography includes notable releases such as "The New Life" and "Arms Around a Vision." Their distinctive sound has garnered them a dedicated following worldwide. Fans of No Joy, The Fresh & Onlys, Grass Widow, Women, Blouse, La Sera, Seapony, Male Bonding, Black Tambourine,Tamaryn,Lower Dens,and White Fence are sure to appreciate the sonic landscape created by Girls Names.

Girls Names return with their third album. Although they formed in Belfast,, they've long considered themselves a European band. The distinction is important - their vision of Europe is one of weird, labyrinthian histories, blackest-ever-black coffee, and long drives to dismal places. The band initially came together as a lean two-piece in 2010, but over the course of a handful of EPs and three very different albums, they've grown in number and ambition. Their last album, The New Life, was an underground hit in early 2013, taking the band around the world and garnering much critical praise, culminating in nominations for both the Northern Irish and Irish Music Prizes. On Arms Around a Vision, they're more widescreen than ever but also more direct and aggressive. The bass, drums and guitars are still there, but so are saxophones, organs, detuned broken guitars and pianos, and even sheets of metal assaulted with hammers. The album opens with 'Reticence', a song in two parts that's half metallic knockout, half midnight swagger. It sounds unlike anything they've ever done before, and is a perfect primer for an album that treads a course between Eno-era Roxy sleaze, Birthday Party dissonance and the repetition, repetition, repetition of the Fall."Most guitar music now is just a playground for the rich middle classes and it's really boring and elitist. We're elitist in our own way, in that we're on our own and you can't fuck with us when we've nothing to lose". The near-6 minute 'A Hunger Artist' tackles that subject full on, addressing that age old adage of suffering for one's art.

My Arms Around a Vision

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