Girls Names’ The New Life is one of the year’s best and it found the band dispensing the jangle side of their oeuvre and heading down more of a deeper post-punk path, with exceptional results.
Here, Factory Floor’s Gabe Gurnsey takes the album’s ninth track ‘Projektions’, rips it up and makes something with a more motorik precision. Gone are the swirling guitar lines and almost everything else. Gurnsey seemingly takes the percussion detail and expands it into a Factory Floor-style synth-pulse minimal charger. The track is less a remix, more of a starting point but the output works nicely nonetheless.
The remix comes from The Next Life EP, a collection of remixes coming out on Tough Love (Europe)/Slumberland (US) out later in the year. Meanwhile, Girls Names play Castlepalooza in two weeks.
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The EP will also feature remixes from David Holmes, Locust, The Soft Walls and Optimo.
Check out the Bowie-referencing artwork below.
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
