Belfast four-piece Girls Names return with their third album Arms Around A Vision, released in October on Tough Love.
From it, we have the six-minute A Hunger Artist, an exploration of the effort needed to get anywhere in the business without the largesse of inherited wealth. “I’m not starving or anything, but I’ve practically been living hand to mouth since I was 22,” writes the now 30-year-old frontman Cathal Cully in a press release. “Most guitar music now is just a playground for the rich middle classes, and it’s really boring and elitist. We’re elitist in our own way, in that we’re on our own and you can’t fuck with us when we’ve nothing to lose.”
And that's the point. Once avenues are closed off to all but a narrow demographic, we all suffer - culturally speaking. Our existence becomes a greyness of inoffensiveness and bland platitudes.

'A Hunger Artist' is the second song to be taken from Girls Names third album, Arms Around a Vision, out 2nd October. Pre-order Arms Around a Vision LP, CD or limited edition cream vinyl - http://smarturl.it/GirlsNames.ToughLove iTunes - http://radi.al/AAAViTunes Tickets to 100 Club, London - https://www.tickettailor.com/checkout/view-event/id/29623/chk/31da PRESS RELEASE Where 'Reticence' was all primordial clang and clatter, recalling the best moments of early '80s no wave and its forerunners - think Glenn Branca and Rhys Chatham's respective guitar ensembles - bookending one of the most immediate, accessible songs the band have ever written at its core, 'A Hunger Artist' is an altogether more colossal and meandering beast. While its chiming guitar introduction might again bear passing resemblance to Branca's deft melodic interplay, its much quicker to cut to the chase. And what a chase it is: leading you over moonlit autobahns and down dark European back alleys. Drawing to mind Neu! and Roxy-era Eno, the Northern Irish quartet lay down a motorik groove that rarely lets up across its almost six-minute runtime, allowing gossamer synths and insistent bass to dance atop with aplomb. Alongside this, the band are set to return to London for a one-off show this October (the 19th) at the historic 100 Club: a not-to-be-missed opportunity to see Arms Around a Vision brought to stunning life in the live setting. UK/EU Live Dates July 16th | Bagnacciuga, Fano, Italy July 17th | Bolognetti Rocks, Bologna, Italy July 18th | A Night Like This Festival, nr. Turin, Italy Oct 19th | 100 Club, London TICKETS

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