Name: Stains on Silence
Brand: Girls Names

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LP-TLV-113

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2018-06-15

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Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

5055869505451

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

CD-TLV-113

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5055869505468

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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' Stains On Silence. Available here on LP and CD.

It stands to reason that many vital albums come critically close to never being made. The eight-track upshot of doubt, upheaval and financial strain, Stains on Silence by Girls Names is one such release. Following 2015s blitzing Arms Around a Vision, and the parting of drummer Gib Cassidy just over a year later, the Belfast band suddenly found themselves facing down a looming void. There was a finished and then aborted mix of the album, which was shelved for six months, reveals Girls Names frontman Cathal Cully. We then took a break from all music and went back to full-time work. We chilled out from the stress of rushing the record and not being happy with it, as well as being skint with no impending touring on the cards and constantly having to worry about rent. The stumbling blocks that proved a strain became the albums defining breakthrough. Recorded in various locations including Belfasts Start Together Studio with Ben McAuley, Cullys home and the bands practice space, spontaneous creation, cut-up techniques and self-editing took centre-stage for the first time. "We started tearing the material apart and rebuilding, re-editing and re-recording different parts in my home in early Autumn last year, says Cully. When we got them to a place we were happier with we went back into Start Together Studio with Ben McAuley to finalise the mixes to what they are now." Where AAAV proved a brazen statement of intent, Stains on Silence bounds forth as its feature-length comedown. What could have seen the band buckle became an opportunity for approaching things tabula rasa. During its two-year transmutation, Cully, bassist Claire Miskimmin and guitarist Philip Quinn had a single aim for their fourth album: to make an old-fashioned record clocking in around 30 to 35 minutes in length that made the listener reach straight for repeat. From the Bang Bang bar-summoning swoon of opener '25 and the submerged disco doom of Haus Proud to the rapt, dub-leaning Fragmen

Stains on Silence

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