Pioneering Dublin noise quartet Gilla Band are sharing a new track ‘Alogia’ from their upcoming album Pugnello, out September 25th via Rough Trade Records. ‘Alogia’ follows lead single ‘Placeholder’ and comes with a video directed by Cuan Roche. Gilla Band will embark on a month-long headlining North American tour this fall which sees them circle the continent. They will follow these shows up with UK and European touring throughout early 2027.
“Alogia means poverty of speech linked to mental health conditions,” explains Gilla Band vocalist Dara Kiely. “I was diagnosed with Schizophrenia while writing the lyrics. I thought I could just walk off the old mental illness but alas!”
Gilla Band – Alogia
Gilla Band never know where they’re going next. 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. Across 2015’s Holding Hands With Jamie, 2019’s The Talkies, and 2022’s Most Normal, 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. Their latest offering, Pugnello, was recorded between 2022-2026 across three studios (Hellfire, Yellow Door Music Studio, & Sonic Studios in Dublin), and produced by Gilla Band and recorded and mixed by Gilla Band bassist Daniel Fox.
Gilla Band – Placeholder
In the four years since Most Normal, each member of Gilla Band embarked on other artistic endeavors. Kiely fostered a newfound love of painting, Faulkner played drums for Lankum on the road, Fox became an increasingly in-demand producer guiding ascendant acts like Sprints, Lambrini Girls, and Mandy, Indiana, while Duggan Borges launched his solo project the Null Club with collaborations featuring Mandy, Indiana’s Valentine Caulfield, the Horrors’ Faris Badwan, Miss Grit, and Brooklyn MC Elucid. All their extracurricular activity existed in parallel with the exploratory route towards Pugnello but also informed the band as they reconvened to crystallize the album’s vision.
Gilla Band – Giraffe
Gilla Band
Pugnello
1. The Angelus
2. Placeholder
3. Alogia
4. Three Hands Clapping
5. Jacobsons
6. The Megazord
7. Computer Sadness
8. Giraffe
9. Crisp Pop
10. The Gallop
