GILLA BAND releases new track ‘Post Ryan’ from forthcoming album

Ireland’s Gilla Band are sharing a new track and video, ‘Post Ryan‘ today off their upcoming album Most Normal, out October 7, 2022 on Rough Trade Records. ‘Post Ryan’ was directed by Michael Speed and follows earlier singles ‘Backwash‘ and ‘Eight Fivers‘, which were accompanied by videos directed and animated by Mortis Studios.

‘Post Ryan’ is the album’s electrifying closer, in which the beat has been taken from ‘I Ran’ by Flock of Seagulls, the band quote saying “We thought, that’s a really great, immediate pop-sounding beat, let’s start there and go somewhere else’ – to have that immediacy, and then abstract out from there.” That’s exactly what happens, that pulsing beat swallowed by amps humming like wasps and itchy, uncomfortable clangs of guitar, the perfect backdrop for singer Dara Kiely’s deadpan, confessional soliloquy.

Dara quotes on the single “Our friend Ryan turned 30 during lockdown and we were asked by his mates to make a track for his birthday, singer Dara Kiely explains, “We wrote and recorded ‘Happy Birthday Ryan‘ (a hair metal attempt penned by our secret Hard Rock alias, The Whisky Guns). Right after that we came up with the bones of what is now known as ‘Post Ryan’. This probably took the longest time out of all the tracks. The words of the track were originally really silly. There was a line about wearing Christmas socks all year round. Stupid stuff. It didn’t really fit the tone. After messing around with the Electro Lobotomy and getting the second half of it figured out, I improvised a melody over it. The lads wanted me to get out of my comfort zone and write something really direct. This was the exact opposite of the approach we had for The Talkies. Felt very naked. I had to leave the room when I showed them my demo of the new vocals.”