In ancient Irish, gilla describes a youth at an age to bear arms. Perhaps an aghast Bono was forced to ponder the merits of The Talkies over the epochal Achtung Baby. Despite titling their third studio album Most Normal, the Dublin group have delivered their most abnormal outing yet - although both albums to date released as Girl Band wouldn’t exactly be filed under easy listening.Ĭultivating a penchant for noise not heard in an Irish band since My Bloody Valentine, early Therapy?, Whipping Boy, Rollerskate Skinny or The Fatima Mansions, the quartet raised plenty of puzzled eyebrows when they scooped the title of best Irish album of all time from this newspaper in 2020, beating all of the aforementioned acts and more. “All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.” Gilla Band don’t believe in the existence of rules, or conventional niceties such as melody and traditional verse-chorus-verse song structures. “There are no norms,” claimed the mysterious Portuguese author and poet Fernando Pessoa.
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