Pugnello

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Label: Rough Trade Records
Release Date: 25th September

Maybe I'm slow to this point but Gilla Band have been one of the most influential rock and punk bands of the last 10 plus years. Their industrial noise rock, their rhythm clash of electronic and the rawness of punk can be heard accross a thousand bands since and you only have to have a quick glance of their discography to know who. 'Pugnello' is the Dublin band's third album and what strikes me most about the album (ya boy has been privy to a listen of the whole record) is how elasticated the rhythms and bassline on the record are, it's a disco not disco punk record and their most danceable set yet. 

Gilla Band are happy to announce their brand new album ‘Pugnello’ released on the 25th September 2026 on Rough Trade Records. The album was recorded from 2022 - 2026 across three studios, Hellfire, Yellow Door Music Studio, & Sonic Studios in Dublin, the album was produced by Gilla Band & it was recorded and mixed by Daniel Fox.

Gilla Band never know where they’re going next. For over ten years now, the Dublin quartet (vocalist Dara Kiely, guitarist Alan Duggan Borges, bassist Daniel Fox, and drummer Adam Faulkner) have been redefining what you could loosely call “rock music” in the 21st century, influencing a wide swath of similarly forward-thinking guitar acts along the way. Across 2015’s Holding Hands With Jamie, 2019’s The Talkies, and 2022’s Most Normal, the band perfected a vision that wasn’t quite post-punk, wasn’t quite noise-rock, wasn’t quite anything besides an idiosyncratic, ground-breaking hybrid that could only come from the four of them.

In the four years since Most Normal, each member embarked on other artistic endeavors. Kiely fostered a newfound love of painting, Faulkner played drums for Lankum on the road, Fox became an increasingly in-demand producer guiding ascendant acts like Sprints, Lambrini Girls, and Mandy, Indiana, while Duggan Borges launched his solo project the Null Club with collaborations featuring Mandy, Indiana’s Valentine Caulfield, the Horrors’ Faris Badwan, Miss Grit, and Brooklyn MC Elucid. All their extracurricular activity existed in parallel with the exploratory route towards Pugnello, but also informed the band as they reconvened to crystallize the album’s vision.

Tracklisting:
1. The Angelus
2. Placeholder
3. Alogia
4. Three Hands Clapping
5. Jacobsons
6. The Megazord
7. Computer Sadness
8. Giraffe
9. Crisp Pop
10. At The Gallop