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CMU Approved
Approved: Girls Names – The New Life
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 11 October 2012
Formed in Belfast in 2009, Girls Names subsequently developed a nice line in jangly West Coast-influenced garage pop. They released their debut EP through Captured Tracks the following year before moving to Tough Love for a mini-album and their 2011 debut album, ‘Dead To Me’.
And if that album title was indeed an announcement of their figurative death, then new single ‘The New Life’ perfectly reveals their rebirth. For a band whose songs previously rarely cracked the three minute mark, returning with a seven and a half minute opus is quite a statement of intent. Sleeker, darker and considerably less jangly, the song loops around itself, gradually building, adding further subtle layers before echoing to a close in a wave of feedback.
List to ‘The New Life’ here: