Ahead of the release of their new album Stains on Silence, set for release on June 15th via Tough Love Records, Belfast’s Girls Names have shared a second glimpse of the record, with the album’s closing track, “Karoline“.
Speaking about the track, the band’s Cathal Cully says: “Karoline is a fictional character who represents whatever you put on a pedestal and chase after, long for or get eaten up with memory and nostalgia over. In a way the whole record is Karoline. I think there’s an element of getting older and life getting heavier; something is always holding you back, holding you down. The last line of the track and subsequently the record, “Eating out the scum in Western Man” was the working title of the LP for about a year and a half. A sobering end.”
Listen to “Karoline” below:
Girls Names live dates:
May
21st – Across the Line, Belfast
June
15th – Blackbox, Belfast
19th – Moth Club, London
20th – Oporto, Leeds
21st – Old Hairdressers, Glasgow
22nd – Night People, Manchester
23rd – Whelans, Dublin
August
9-12th – Ypsigrock, Sicily