Photo by Marine Kamden
Rising from Cork with a blend of post-punk and shoegaze, the outfit Pebbledash have unveiled their new single ‘Cell’, taken from their forthcoming EP To Cast the Sea in Concrete. Recently, the band was on tour with Cardinals and Mên An Tol, and has another upcoming tour, with dates in the UK and Ireland. The single also lines up with the announcement of their music being used in Netflix’s House of Guinness.
Climbing a mountain of emotive tones and songwriting across the over five-minute runtime of the new single, the band dive deeper into their shoegaze sensibilities. It begins reverberant and hushed, rising to a distorted, raw and assertive cacophony of feeling. Voices are temporarily lost in the sound of the guitars, the moment scales and soars, ascending into a kind of twisted ethereality. It’s beautifully, hypnotically dark, and a testament to this band’s starry status.
Fionnbharr Hickey shares a comment, “This song is both an exploration of facing the parts of you that are usually hidden away from view, the parts of you that scare you whilst also being a comment on the futility of life itself and the fact that none of this matters and the frustration that this can bring. Asha’s chanting vocals resonating with the screeching feedback of guitars, echo these exasperations. Perhaps my favourite moment in the EP is on this track dropping with the instrumental break a vicious and searing guitar feedback. It just brings delight to my ears every time I listen back to it, I really think people will get a sense of our live shows from the track and the dynamics we bring to the stage.”
That sound has earned them champions in BBC Radio 6 Music, Radio X, Spotify and a host of publications.
Listen to Pebbledash here…
