Gilla Band Announces Fourth Album Pugnello

Gilla Band officially announced their fourth album this summer. Pitchfork described Gilla Band as the most influential band from Ireland since My Bloody Valentine. In addition to this statement, Selin Macieira-Boşgelmez stated that Gilla Band has reinvented guitar music. Furthermore, the vocal style of Gilla Band is compared to that of The Fall.

The album, titled Pugnello, opens with the track titled The Angelus and ends after a duration of 42 minutes. Throughout the album, vocalist Dara Kiely uses intense spoken-word vocals. The sound of Gilla Band is contemporary and focuses on texture rather than melody. Consequently, Pugnello contains no melodies that are easily hummable. The closest musical relative of the album might be the industrially textured techno music of Regis or Surgeon.

In the track Alogia, an urgent funk style is combined with klaxon-like sounds. Additionally, the track I See a Darkness (Live in the City of Ghosts) by Bonnie “Prince” Billy is reinterpreted on the album Ghosts of American Psychonauts.