Gilla Band Release New Album ‘Most Normal’
October 20, 2022
Gilla Band have released their new album ‘Most Normal’ with glowing reviews calling it ‘their best work yet’ (The Irish Times 5*) and ‘a turbulent masterpiece’ (The Guardian)
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Available on limited edition alt cover LP from our webstore, pressed on white vinyl, limited to 1,250 worldwide and comes with signed lyric booklet
For their first album as Gilla Band, the foursome has redrawn their own paradigm. Most Normal 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
On this album the band developed a new creative process, they 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,”, on this album Alan says “there was a conscious effort to be more direct this time, whether it was with the lyrics or the music and with the production –for everything to be a lot more ‘here’ and to feel more poppy, and then really try to mess with it and subvert it..”
The common thread holding Most Normal’s ambitious avant-pop shapes together is frontman Dara Kiely. 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 brother’s old clothes, like bell-bottomed flares that got nowhere near my ankle,” says Kiely.
TOUR DATES – Buy Tickets Here
16 Sept – London, UK @ The Windmill
8 Oct -London, UK @ Peckham Audio
15 Oct – Birmingham, UK @ Future Days Festival
16 Oct – Bristol, UK @ Trinity
18 Oct – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
19 Oct – Glasgow, UK @ SWG3
20 Oct – Manchester, UK @ Canvas
21 Oct – London, UK @ Moth Club
23 Oct – Brighton, UK @ CHALK
9 Nov – London, UK @ Studio 9294
11 Nov – Kortrijk, BE @ Sonic City Festival
12 Nov – Reims, FR @ La Cartonnerie Club
13 Nov – Lyon, FR @ Le Marche Gare
15 Nov – Zurich, CH @ Bogen F
16 Nov – Milan, IT @ Biko
17 Nov – Munich, DE @ Strom
19 Nov – Berlin, DE @ Lido
21 Nov – Copenhagen, DK @ Loppen
22 Nov – Hamburg, DE @ Knust
24 Nov – Cologne, DE @ Artheater
25 Nov – Rotterdam, NL @ Maassilio
26 Nov – Paris, FR @ La Gaite Lyrique
9 Dec – Dublin, IE @ National Stadium
15 Dec – Belfast, IE @ The Empire
US TOUR DATES:
10 Feb – LA, CA, USA @ Teragram Ballroom
11 Feb – Berkeley, CA, USA @ Cornerstone Berkeley
13 Feb – Portland, OR, USA @ Mission Theater
14 Feb – Vancouver, BC, CANADA @ Wise Hall
15 Feb – Seattle, WA, USA @ Sunset Tavern
21 Feb – Brooklyn, NY, USA @ Brooklyn Made
22 Feb – Philadelphia, PA, USA @ Johnny Brenda’s
24 Feb – Cambridge, MA, USA @ Sonias
25 Feb – Washington, DC, USA @ DC9
27 Feb – Chicago, IL , USA @ Lincoln Hall