pillow queens

Marking a change in approach for the Dubliners, ‘Name Your Sorrow’ is a record of both experimentation and supercharged grandeur.

They’ve embraced an expansive sound palette, utilising a producer with boygenius and Lucy Dacus credentials to create something that is a little more pop, oozing with intimacy, and kitted out with stratosphere-botheringly huge sounds. To do so, they quite literally mixed things up a little, swapping instruments and taking novel approaches to the recording process. The results speak for themselves, with the band in the most coherent and affecting form of their career. At times, they unravel notes tenderly and, at others, the guitars and kick drum positively boom out as if from a cavernous space, engulfing our eager ears in the process.