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9.0
131736
9.0 |
Slant Magazine
The band’s gift for conjuring up new forms of auditory mayhem is the real star of the show
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9.0
131741
9.0 |
musicOMH
The Dublin outfit fka Girl Band’s compelling, magnetic third album is utterly weird, often brutal, and mostly disorientating
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8.4
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8.4 |
Pitchfork
The Irish band’s unrelenting third album, made with an arcade of pedals and processors, surges with electricity. Inside all of its noise is an indignant, surreal mania that gives it a twisted pop soul
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8.0
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Under The Radar
Although Most Normal is every bit as obtuse as one has come to expect from Gilla Band, it represents more of a short sharp shock than either 2019’s The Talkies or 2015’s Holding Hands With Jamie, yet remains every bit as exhilarating
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8.0
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8.0 |
Loud And Quiet
When you stick on your headphones and press play on this music, you cannot help but feel welcomed into their wonderfully strange world
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Gilla Band remain typically confrontational and free-form on Most Normal
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8.0
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8.0 |
DIY
Uneasy and unpredictable, yet invigorating
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8.0
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8.0 |
Northern Transmissions
You’ve got to love the dichotomy of the album being entitled ‘Most Normal’ because Gilla Band’s third outing is anything but ordinary
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Skinny
Gilla Band are in experimental mood on new album Most Normal, with an overwhelmingly high hit rate
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7.3
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7.3 |
Paste Magazine
Frontperson Dara Kiely’s language less resembles the mumblings of a person disconnected from reality than those of someone whose anxieties are entirely relatable
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6.0
131739
6.0 |
Uncut
The results are sometimes too meta to be particularly satisfying, but when but coheres - as on the bracing, static-smeared "Backwash" - it's worth the effort. Print edition only
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6.0
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Mojo
Budget-price corporations such as Lidl and Ryanair take a mauling, amid a sonic barrage which occasionally coalesces into pleasing punk-funk but mostly glories in making lap-steel sound like a cement mixer. Print edition only
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