Girls Names – Bury Me

Belfast band Girls Names play artfully disheveled and dirty pop music, with a dark sense of humour. There is an amount of gloom, as you would expect from a band who’s songs are called things like ‘Bury Me’, ‘I Could Die’ and ‘Graveyard’, but these are no gothic dirges. It is music for dancing, though granted, only whilst wearing a serious face. Reverb-heavy guitars, and below-the-mix vocals do play on this theme of darkness, but they cannot hide the jangly vintage pop at the heart of Girls Name’s songs.

These tracks are haunted, but only by the soul of bands past, with decade-spanning references that remind you of Joy Division one minute and Orange Juice the next.

Girls Names release debut album Dead to Me on Tough Love Records on April 25.