Irish band September Girls are the fifth new artist to join the Matinée roster in the past 12 months and we couldn’t be any more excited! A five piece girl group hailing from Dublin, the band plays reverb soaked noise pop of the finest order, with distant layered harmonies, swirling organ, and distorted guitars once described as “sounds from a transistor radio abandoned in a rural cinema.”
Formed in September 2011, the band’s debut release—a limited cassette single for Glasgow’s Soft Power Records in April 2012—sold out worldwide within a week. The girls spent the summer recording new songs and playing dates across the UK including a lauded performance at the Indietracks Festival.
Autumn sees the band return to the UK for more shows alongside the release of a trio of 7 inch EPs, including one each for Matinée Recordings, Soft Power Records in Scotland, and Art For Blind Records in Ireland.
The Matinée debut is the ‘Wanting More’ 7” EP (matinée 085) featuring the incredibly catchy title track which originally appeared on the Soft Power cassette in demo form. The song has classic girl group vocals, majestic harmonies, chiming guitars, a haze of keyboards, and pounding drums all positively drenched in reverb. With its refrain of “take me back to where the summer lasts forever” it is the ideal opener for an EP released by a label basking in the year-round California sunshine.
The EP features two more superb songs on the B-side. ‘Hells Bells’ is an infectious 60s pop hit combining fuzzy guitars, thundering drums, haunting organ, and swirling melodies to create a hypnotic masterpiece of reverberation. It’s the perfect soundtrack for bikini-clad girls with beehive hairdos dancing around a bonfire on the beach. Closing track ‘Man Chats’ is two minutes of sublime noisy pop, with a primitive rhythm, assaulting guitars, and cavernous vocals that add an extra dose of intrigue and suspense to the EP.
Limited to 500 hand-numbered copies on stylish milky clear vinyl, this is the ultimate in garage pop perfection and another smash hit for the Matinée discography. The official release date is November 6 but we have copies to ship already so order yours right now in the Matinée shop!
We also have 50 copies of the brand new September Girls 7” for Soft Power Records featuring the ace tracks ‘Green Eyed’ and ‘Danny Wood’ so get one of those before they’re gone too. We hear it’s close to selling out in just a week so don’t say we didn’t warn you…
If the above prose doesn’t do the band justice all you need to do is click play on the jukebox below to preview the single right now:
The band has also made a great video for Hells Bells. We told you it was perfect soundtrack for bikini-clad girls dancing on the beach!