Gurriers

Gurriers' superb second album might be called Nobody's Coming To Save You, then, but it could easily be subtitled 'harder, better, faster, stronger'. Recorded at Donegal's Attica Studios and Holy Mountain Studios in London with producers Mark Bowen of IDLES and Loren Humphrey (Geese, Cameron Winter), alongside engineer Chris Fullard (IDLES, Sunn O)))) and world-renowned mixer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Modest Mouse, Swans), the crack team that readily assembled for LP2 speaks volumes of its quality from the off. This is Gurriers taking all the musical chemistry and smart, interrogational worldview that made them great in the first place, and souping it up to the next level.

From the rattling tension of the title track's opening moments that then give way to a cacophonous, cathartic climax, Nobody's Coming To Save You takes this spirit of the sweaty basement venue and turns it stadium-sized. It's not just loud, but dynamic. If the band's MO was to find a way to make the record "slap you in the face", then consider yourself smacked.