{"product_id":"gilla-band-most-normal","title":"GILLA BAND - Most Normal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCD\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor their first album as \u003cstrong\u003eGilla Band\u003c\/strong\u003e, (formerly \u003cstrong\u003eGirl Band\u003c\/strong\u003e) the foursome has redrawn their own paradigm. \u003cem\u003eMost Normal\u003c\/em\u003e is like little you’ve heard before, a kaleidoscopic spectrum of noise put in service of broken pop songs, FX-strafed Avant-punk rollercoaster rides and passages of futurist dancefloor nihilism.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCovid lockdown robbed Gilla Band of any opportunity to try the new material out live, but the pandemic also incinerated any idea of a deadline for the new album. They were free to tinker at leisure, to rewrite and restructure and reinvent tracks they’d cut – to, as drummer \u003cstrong\u003eAdam Faulkner\u003c\/strong\u003e puts it, “pull things apart and be like, ‘Let’s try this. We could try out every wild idea.” \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe group also fell under the spell of modern hip-hop, “where there’s really heavy-handed production and they’re messing with the track the whole time,” says \u003cstrong\u003eDaniel Fox\u003c\/strong\u003e. “That felt like a fun route to go down, it was a definite influence.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMost Normal\u003c\/em\u003e opens with an absolute industrial-noise banger that sounds like a manic house-party throbbing through the walls of the next room as a downed jetliner brings death from above. What follows is unpredictable, leading the listener through a sonic house of mirrors, where the unexpected awaits around every corner. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe common thread holding \u003cem\u003eMost Normal\u003c\/em\u003e’s ambitious Avant-pop shapes together is frontman \u003cstrong\u003eDara Kiely\u003c\/strong\u003e. Throughout, he’s an antic, antagonistic presence, barking wild, hilarious, unsettling spiels, babbling about smearing fish with lubricant or dressing up in bin-liners or having to wear hand-me-down boot-cut jeans (“It was a big, shameful thing, growing up, not being able to afford the look I wanted and having to wear all my \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ebrother’s old clothes”, says Kiely). \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMost Normal\u003c\/em\u003e, then, is a triumph, the bold work of a group who’ve taken the time to evolve their ideas, to deconstruct and reconstruct their music and rebuild it into something new, something challenging and infinitely rewarding. It’s a headphone masterpiece. It’s a majestic exploration of the infinite possibilities of noise. It’s a bold riposte to your parochial beliefs on whatever a pop song can or should be. It’s the best work these musicians have put to (mangled) tape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rough Trade Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":42227984629921,"sku":"SDZ-13755","price":12.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/3455\/0945\/products\/Gilla_Band_-_Most_Normal.jpg?v=1657701791","url":"https:\/\/spindizzyrecords.com\/products\/gilla-band-most-normal","provider":"Spindizzy Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}