This might read like a weird thing, but surely there’s never been a better worse time to be a punk band? Compare it so say, back in the nineties, when everything was fine, and all people had to worry about was how big their shorts were, or if their girlfriend hated them? Now..just wow.
Dublin quintet Gurriers drew attention with their 2024 debut album Come And See, a relentless pitching up of their collective tent in various fields, from clattering punk to ephemeral shoegaze, but having toured with the likes of Kneecap and Turnstile since it’s release, they decided that now they’d escaped sweaty hundred capacity rooms, it was time to think of a sound that would fill the new, bigger, void.
Nobody’s Coming To Save You sounds like a title without hope, when it’s really about the realisation that we’re going to have to get up off our arses or risk spending our lives on our knees. It’s a stark truth expressed with the necessary brute force on Party Lines and the titular opener, whilst the likes of Shades and Waiting For Fisher are stranger-punching-in-the-mouth friendly down the front of your nearest gig. There is time for reflection via Pins, whilst closer Crybaby holds a mirror up to addiction. But Nobody’s Coming To Save You is evidence in it’s abrasion that in punk terms at least, bad times make for good music.
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