Whatever’s in the water in Ireland right now needs to be studied. Gurriers are one of the many stellar acts to have arisen from this fertile milieu, five lads from Dublin with a lot of ambition and a lot to say. Their 2024 debut ‘Come and See’ took aim at the world’s many woes, while their tense, exhilarating follow-up digs even deeper into the dark, searching for signs of light.
These 10 tracks creak, judder and detonate, riding fuse-like guitar scratches and claustrophobic drums. Nowhere are these doom-laden soundscapes better realised than the monstrous title track, which groans like an iceberg calving. Gurriers have landed on an oppressive, surprisingly groovy (see the percussive funk of ‘Party Lines’) brand of grand, dark post-punk…

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