“Remember when some happy go lucky, sunshiny kid from your class returned to school after the summer holidays with a renewed sense of bleak pessimism? It's the kind of change inherent in the material we've heard from Belfast's Girls Names' (a newly minted quartet) new album. The new record's title track, "The New Life", was a downcast seven-and-a-half minute jam that felt like an ode to stasis.
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