Gurriers – Nobody’s Coming To Save You

Dublin five-piece Gurriers have announced their second album, Nobody’s Coming To Save You, out September 25 via Play It Again Sam, and shared its title track. The band is Dan Hoff on vocals, Ben O’Neill and Mark MacCormack on guitars, Pierce Callaghan on drums and Charlie McCarthy on bass. Their 2024 debut Come And See established them as one of the more vital things coming out of Ireland’s alternative scene, and this album arrives with a production team that signals they’re ready to scale up: Mark Bowen (Idles) and Loren Humphrey (Geese, Cameron Winter) as co-producers, Chris Fullard (Idles, Sunn O)))) engineering, John Congleton (St. Vincent, Modest Mouse, Swans) mixing. Recorded between Attica Studios in Donegal and Holy Mountain Studios in London.

The title track opens with a sinister riff that fades in and out before the drums and guitars build into the kind of chorus that demands a physical response. Bowen’s production presence is audible: the guitars are layered and three-dimensional, punchy in the way O’Neill describes wanting, “huge and three-dimensional, punch you right in the face.” Hoff’s vocal delivery moves between spoken-word cool and full-throated intensity, and that shift is where the track does its real work. The song started life as a response to a review that criticised the band for raising political questions without offering answers. Their response is to cite Kurt Vonnegut and Rebecca Solnit, specifically Solnit’s line “Hope is an axe you can break down doors with”, because as the band say, “we’re a band, we’re not a political party.” The track repays that honesty: what sounds like despair on first listen gradually reveals itself as something more activating, a reminder that collective action doesn’t begin with someone else.

Since Come And See, Gurriers have played Later… with Jools Holland, both Glastonbury Woodsies and Leftfield stages, and arena support slots with Turnstile and Kneecap. The autumn UK and European headline tour includes London’s Electric Brixton on October 24 and two Dublin shows at Vicar Street and 3Olympia. Support across the tour comes from Enola Gay, Tramhaus, Really Good Time and Child Of Prague.

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Tracklist: Nobody’s Coming To Save You

1. Nobody’s Coming To Save You
2. Party Lines
3. Shades
4. Pins
5. Today Is Not Enough
6. Drones
7. Nothing Happens Twice
8. Waiting For Fisher
9. I Wish I Was
10. Crybaby