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When it comes to the Irish male quartet Girl Band, there’s only ruins left over from the classic elements of the rock song. Dissonant textures scream from the guitar amp, the bass entrenches strange figures in the sound foundation, the percussion sounds like cardiac dysrhythmia. The songs by Girl Band are about disorders, about anxiety and panic, and about the anxiety disorder of their vocalist Dara Kiely—you can hear it in the first song on their new album The Talkies, how his initially still calm breathing turns into a death-stricken suffocation panic attack.

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