Description
When Dublin’s Gurriers released 2024 debut album Come And See, they
underlined their status as a visceral, unignorable new voice in the
thriving Irish punk scene. Since then, they have carved out a steadily
escalating reputation for bone-rattling, mosh-ready live shows. Come
And See pushed their lyrical chops and curious, sociallyexploratory outlook to the fore too, platforming songs about digital
angst and IRL terror in the modern world.
The quintet’s superb second album might be called Nobody’s
Coming To Save You, then, but it could easily be subtitled ‘harder,
better, faster, stronger’. Recorded at Donegal’s Attica Studios and Holy
Mountain Studios in London with producers Mark Bowen of Idles and
Loren Humphrey (Geese, Cameron Winter), alongside engineer Chris
Fullard (Idles, Sunn O))) and world-renowned mixer John Congleton (St.
Vincent, Modest Mouse, Swans), the crack team that readily assembled
for LP2 speaks volumes of its quality from the off.
This is Gurriers taking
all the musical chemistry and smart, interrogational worldview that
made them great in the first place, and souping it up to the next level.
From the rattling tension of the title track’s opening moments that then
give way to a cacophonous, cathartic climax, Nobody’s Coming To Save
You takes this spirit of the sweaty basement venue and turns it stadiumsized. It’s not just loud, but dynamic. ‘Shades’ takes shards of industrial,
angular guitar and sends them into a gnarly hardcore chorus, while
‘Drones’ is a true pressure-cranking slow build with a drop destined to
decimate every mosh pit they travel through. On ‘Pins’, they explore a
looser, more melodic swagger that comes on like a grunge/ trip-hop
hybrid, whereas ‘Party Lines’ is pure insatiable dance-punk hedonism. If
the band’s MO was to find a way to make the record “slap you in the
face”, then consider yourself smacked.
With Nobody’s Coming To Save You, Gurriers have sent their ambitions
sky-high and come out swinging.
![Gurriers - Nobody's Coming To Save You [Official Video]](media/video-thumbnail/265995-maxresdefault.jpg)
