Gilla Band are happy to share their first new music in nearly four years, the new single “Giraffe” is released by Rough Trade Records. The hugely original and influential Dublin four piece will also be touring the UK / Europe at the start of 2027.
After dropping their first new song in three years in May, Gilla Band have confirmed there’s more where that came from. “Giraffe” is the first new music from Gilla Band in nearly 4 years and to mark this the band are releasing a very limited 7” picture disc.
For over ten years now, the Dublin quartet — vocalist Dara Kiely, guitarist Alan Duggan Borges, bassist Daniel Fox, and drummer Adam Faulkner — have been redefining what you could loosely call “rock music” in the 21st century, influencing a wide swath of similarly forward-thinking guitar acts along the way.
The band perfected a vision that wasn’t quite post-punk, wasn’t quite noise-rock, wasn’t quite anything besides an idiosyncratic, ground-breaking hybrid that could only come from the four of them – “Giraffe” is their bold new offering.
They also shared a new track, “Placeholder,” alongside a dreamlike, colour-saturated music video directed by Cuan Roche.
“Pugnello” is entirely produced by the quartet, and mixed by Fox. In a press statement, Kiely noted that “Placeholder” is a reflection on his childhood creature comforts, from Big Brother to the Power Rangers. (“I remember I was at some sort of Christian summer camp when I was about six and was asked what I want to be when I grow up. I said ‘a Power Ranger,’” Kiely says. “I was laughed at and was told the shocking truth that they didn’t exist and it is not a profession worth pursuing. I’ve never forgiven them for that.”)
Gilla Band released their last album, “Most Normal”, in 2022. They’ve stayed relatively under the radar since then, save for the 2023 loosie “Sports Day.” The group will support “Pugnello” starting this fall and all the way through 2027 on a North American and European tour.
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