As we’ll study, this isn’t an uncommon state of affairs, it’s extra of a default place. The Dublin-based quintet rattles out a collection of searing tunes coping with real emotions of contemporary youth and life unsettled, agitated, and up in opposition to issues. It rails in opposition to apathy whereas seeming to concurrently look at the futility of enterprise such an train. To say that the band, and particularly singer Dan Hoff’s raging supply, come throughout as disillusioned is likely to be to undersell the temper, massively.
“Des Goblin” hyper-focuses readily and ferociously on the superficiality of existence lived ‘on-line’, as does the opener, and but the sensation seems to be inevitable like there wasn’t actually some other probably end result. It’s as bleak and barren because it appears. Society is doomed, we’re all sheep, corralled and predestined and every era has been culpable within the diminishing returns of the one to observe. It’s vastly reductive however not solely mistaken both. We might all be sleepwalking towards oblivion however slightly than pointing fingers the place are the solutions? Ought to they be anticipated to have any? Doesn’t each era really feel the identical – are the most recent Gen’s merely doing so with extra vitality, extra urgently than their forebears? In fact, the flip aspect to this stance is that some do see the issues, have their eyes fastened elsewhere, and are perceptive in a manner others aren’t, enter your champions, Gurriers then.
“Prayers” addresses the scurrilous duplicity of a faithless church, “Shut Name” is a roaring rush of abrasive industrial pounding. These are tunes that map scenes in dystopian films, as boots crunch over shattered glass and damaged hopes. So many issues are severely mistaken with society, systemic and endemic, and youthful generations undoubtedly are paying the worth. Some of the efficient songs on the album is “High of the Invoice.” It’s as offended and bewildered because the bands’ different songs however expresses issues in a wider context.
Gurriers candidly belittle the rise of the far proper, yelping “I used to be born within the mistaken period” on “Approachable” as they pull the threads out from the racism and bigotted strategies teams use to have interaction the disenfranchised era the band and their followers hail from. This and the meaty basslines and lyrics from “Signal of the Instances” at the least go a way in direction of addressing issues in any productive manner. The sardonic humour this track shares with the similar-sounding Viagra Boys use on their very own tongue-in-cheek takedowns. It’s simpler to search out hope in these songs than in some others, particularly if all they’ll handle is to spout rhetoric or dissatisfied bile.
Gurriers aren’t anybody’s saviours. They’ve positioned themselves between the proverbial rock and a tough place, this feels rather more like a don’t shoot the messenger kind state of affairs. Punk at all times has an inbuilt shelf life, in need of civil rebellion and really smashing the system, there’s a degree at which ‘actuality’ kicks in for almost all of society. Sadly ideas of insurrection are quieted and life continues, maybe somewhat has been achieved superficially to appease these flanked behind however not on the entrance traces. Gurriers, with a reputation derived from the historic ‘lout’ or ‘ruffian’, do stir the pot. Do rattle the cages and possibly can mobilise some important considering. Come and See could possibly be deemed a counterattack, rubbing our noses within the mess we’ve created, however with a thread that largely expounds on the ‘we’re all fucked’ adage it’s not like we’re all so oblivious and unwilling to show the ship round.
General, the album is formidable and it’s not essentially the band’s personal fault that there’s a slight sanctimonious-sounding vein working by means of their musical output – it form of goes with the territory. However the largest letdown is probably that they don’t exhibit a willingness to face the aftermath, the long run accountability for all their lofty and pressing beliefs.
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