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Hypnotic Regression 18.05.13 Plissken Festival. Atehns, Greece

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The New Life. 16.05.13. Coalition, Brighton, England - The Great Escape Festival

Watch the new video for ‘Hypnotic Regression’ by Girls Names, premiered at Dazed Digital.

Dir. Nick Thompson

‘Hypnotic Regression’ is taken from Girls Names’ second album, The New Life, out now. Buy The New Life on iTunes here.

Tour dates
May
12th - Nuits Botainique, Brussels, Belgium
13th - Radio 1 Big Weekend/BBC Introducing Live, Derry
15th - 100 Club, London w/ Merchandise - SOLD OUT
16th - Great Escape @ Coalition, Brighton
17th - MKC, Skopje, Macedonia
18th - Plissken Festival, Athens, Greece
June
1st - Forbidden Fruit, Dublin - tickets
August
17th - Green Man Festival, Glanusk, Wales

Girls Names have announced some more European shows. See below for a full list:

12th April - The Belfast Barge, Belfast
12th May - Nuits Botainique, Brussels, Belgium
15th May - 100 Club, London w/ Merchandise
16th May - Great Escape @ Coalition, Brighton
17th May - MKC, Skopje, Macedonia
18th May - Plissken Festival, Athens, Greece
1st June - Forbidden Fruit, Dublin
17th August - Green Man Festival, Glanusk, Wales

Girls Names play Plissken Festival in Athens on 16-19th May.

Girls Names - ‘The New Life’ (Live at Cameo, Brooklyn, 10th March 2013)

Girls Names - ‘The Olympia’ (Live at Cameo, Brooklyn, 10th March 2013)

Girls Names have confirmed a list of new tour dates, including SXSW and their next London show with Merchandise. More TBC

March
10th - Cameo, Brooklyn, NYC
11th - SXSW, Northern Irish Music Showcase - Latitude 30 - 8:45pm
13th - SXSW, Slumberland Records Showcase - Time TBC
14th - SXSW, Under The Radar,  Flamingo Cantina 4.05pm
14th - SXSW, KRTU 91 7FM - Flat Top Burger Shop - 6pm
15th - SXSW, Waterloo - 5.15pm
May
15th - 100 Club, London w/ Merchandise - tickets
June
1st - Forbidden Fruit, Dublin - tickets

“The New Life is a must listen” – NME (8/10)
“A minor-chord menace” - Q (4/5)
“Girls Names is slowly becoming a band for all seasons” – Pitchfork
“Girls Names make sadness moreish and hypnotic” - The Fly (4/5)
“A marvellously murky, ill-tempered rush before impending doom” - Noisey
“In terms of a band upping their game, it’s a bit like when Deerhunter followed Turn It Up Faggot with Cryptograms” - Dazed & Confused
“The result is a stylish, intelligent record that does exactly what it set out to do: Girls Names have reinvented their sound and come up smelling of roses.” - BBC (8/10)
”The New Life is the perfect soundtrack for this winter of discontent” - AU (8/10)
”this album will announce to the world that they’re a band with big ambitions” - the 405
”If you weren’t already enthused by Belfast’s Girls Names now is the time, their second album is their best yet” - Nialler 9 (Album of the Week)
“The New Life is a frontrunner for one of the best albums of the year so far” - Irish Times

Girls Names - The New Life - out now

iTunes (w/ bonus track)
Amazon
Rough Trade
Tough Love (CD)
Tough Love (v.ltd white vinyl LP - second pressing ships 4th March)

New Girls Names T-shirts available to buy on their forthcoming European tour from Tuesday.

“The New Life sounds like a gag loosened, a voice finally unsilenced” - NME, 8/10

Ahead of its release next week, Dazed Digital are streaming the new Girls Names album, The New Life.

Buy The New Life
iTunes
Amazon
Tough Love

Girls Names in this week’s NME.

The band tour from February

February
16th - The Menagerie, Belfast
21st - The Grand Social, Dublin
22nd - The Cockpit, Leeds
24th - Broadcast, Glasgow
25th - The Castle Hotel, Manchester
26th - Sebright Arms, London
27th - Point Ephemere, Paris
March
2nd - Sala Apolo, Barcelona
3rd - Astoria, Torino
4th - Circolo degli Artisti, Rome
5th - Mascotte, Zurich
6th - MuZ, Nuremberg
8th - Magnet Club (Karrera Klub), Berlin
9th - De Neiuwe Anita, Amsterdam

Girls Names - The New Life - CD/LP

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“On their upcoming LP The New Life, Northern Ireland’s Girls Names are moving past the grey-hued ramshackle pop of their 2011 debut Dead to Me— says frontman Cathal Cully, in a press release, “Dead to Me literally was dead to us by the time it was committed to wax.” New Life, meanwhile, goes for a darker sprawl with bits of shadowy psychedelia, as shown on “Pittura Infamante”, its title referencing the Italian Renaissance genre of defamatory painting.” - Pitchfork

‘Pittura Infamante’ is taken from Girls Names’ forthcoming album, The New Life, out 18th Feb.

Pre-order The New Life here - itunes.apple.com/gb/album/the-new-life/id582840781