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Interview JACK MCBAIN GURRIERS Gurriers are one t
hose bands that seem to be getting bigger by the day, playing shows all over Europe, supporting massive bands and releasing some of the best music to come out of the country in a long time. With their debut album titled ‘Come And See’ dropping on the 13th of September Jack McBain caught up with the band ahead of the release. Your debut album ‘Come And See’ comes out on the 13th of September and I’d love to know what’s the mood amongst the band as we get closer to the release date? Mark: We’re excited to get it out finally because we have been together for around five years and it’s great just to finally put something out and move on to the next thing. Pierce: Because we haven’t done the whole EP thing, this is our first proper body of work that we are releasing. That wasn’t always the intention. Obviously there was ambition from very early on to do an album or some kind of record but it wasn’t some kind of overarching plan from the beginning, it just kind of happened and to finally get a physical release out is really really exciting. PAGE 8 You recorded the album in Leeds. Why there? Dan: I think we just kind of chose Leeds out of a list of producers that we were shown. We ended up choosing Alex Greaves, who just ticked all the boxes of what we wanted to do. He did the Heavy Lungs record which is very heavy and loud so he definitely knew what we wanted to do. He had a lovely studio in Leeds and that was nice to get out of Ireland for a while so yeah it was a very enjoyable experience. Now one thing that stands out on the album is the themes explored such as fear of the far right, social media and emigration. Whilst writing these lyrics Dan was it important to you to be honest about Ireland as a place and not romanticise it? .. I’m firmly in the band. I’m a gurrier.. Dan: Yeah when I was talking about ‘Approachable’ there was a smaller group of people on the far right and it was anger towards them in an honest way. I’m not trying to talk about how much I love Ireland or anything like that, I am just trying to tell it from how I see things. I am not trying to tell it from Ireland or Dublin or anywhere in particular, just in a universal way and so everyone can understand it when they listen to it. At the moment you can see what’s happening in England and Ireland. In terms of the tracklisting was it on purpose that the album opens in such a dark and atmospheric way with ‘Nausea’ and ending in a very up-lifting and hopeful sound in the title track ‘Come and See’?