Gilla Band Announces Fourth Album

Gilla Band announced its fourth album this summer. Pitchfork described Gilla Band as Ireland’s most influential group since My Bloody Valentine, while Selin Macieira-Boşgelmez said the band had reinvented guitar music.

Pugnello opens with a power chord played on a broken electric guitar. The music has a contemporary sound focused more on texture than melody, and there is no easily hummable melody on the album. The Angelus contains a drone lasting about two and a half minutes, while Pugnello ends after 42 minutes.

Pugnello’s closest musical relative is described as the industrial-influenced techno music of Regis or Surgeon rather than alt-rock. Kiely’s vocal style is compared with The Fall. Placebo, The Megazord and especially Alogia use different musical elements.

Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s Ghosts of American Psychonauts album contains I See a Darkness (Live in the City of Ghosts).