Girls In Synthesis Return With New Single “Lights Out” & Announce “Sublimation” Album

After two critically acclaimed albums, 2020’s Now Here’s An Echo From Your Future and 2022’s The Rest Is Distraction, as well numerous mini-album, EP and single releases, London based innovators Girls In Synthesis return on May 3rd with their new statement; their third album, Sublimation. If you thought you knew Girls In Synthesis, think again. Pushing themselves, they have once again broken into new territories, constructing their own world and bringing forward their interpretation of a dark, twisted and angular pop record, with all the intensity of their previous work. Sublimation once again proves Girls In Synthesis to be peerless, and throughout its eleven tracks they dive headfirst into an uneasy, atmospheric and intense world of melody, self-questioning lyrics and combative musical performances. New single Lights Out gives listeners their first glimpse of the band’s new path. An immediate statement of intent, Lights Out is split into two distinct sections; the opening a Barrett-esque vocal and guitar lament to sleep deprived anxiety which morphs, via a Faust Tapes influenced freeform noise section, into a stomping, high intensity closing blitz.

“This is a song of two definitive sections. The first half was instinctive. It projects the uneasy feeling of late-night anxiety when you awake from sleep in the dark of the night and your brain jumps from one terrifying thought to another. The lyrics were just a continued representation of that atmosphere of the music, which spilled out on the page. The second half of the song was written collaboratively in the rehearsal room. I wrote the lyrics while walking to rehearsal, put myself in a certain head space and the lyrics appeared instantly, rhythmically matching the marching beat of my walk. John (Linger, bass) then started with the driving bass line, and we fused it together with the powerful almost ‘drum ‘n’ bass’ beat of the drums. For me this song perfectly represents the past and present Girls In Synthesis” (guitarist Jim Cubitt)

Girls In Synthesis adopted a radically different approach to making Sublimation compared to their previous endeavours. Recorded late 2023 at Sick Room Studios in Narborough, Norfolk by Owen Turner, these sessions marked the first time the band had worked with an engineer from the recording process onwards. Typically, in the past, Girls In Synthesis would record and engineer everything themselves and then collaborate on the mix with someone else, but this time they retreated to rural Norfolk and completely absorbed themselves in the isolation and quietness of their surroundings. Tracks such as Deceit, We Are Here and Picking Things Out Of The Air see the group at their most melodic to date, minimising some of the chaotic noise elements of their signature sound and bringing to the fore impassioned, soaring vocals and keys melodies. Their trademark, driving drums and bass foundation is particularly evident on I Judge Myself and Corrupting Memories, but is counterbalanced by intense, early goth influenced keyboard lines, bringing influences from late 1970s and early 1980s into focus with the contemporary Girls In Synthesis intensity.

Hidden gems such as I Was Never There and The Prefix build up tension and atmosphere with sparse arrangements and circular, spiralling outros, while closer A Damning Lesson sees the band return to their intense, bludgeoning wall of sound only to send it into a blur of echoing drum machine, reminiscent of the early work of Cabaret Voltaire. Lyrically, Girls In Synthesis stand alone, leaving the pastiche sloganeering and lecturing to those wishing to preach to the converted, and reach inside to bring forth poetic and challenging analysis of the anxiety and emotional turmoil of self-reflection and human relationships. Booked in for extensive UK & EU touring throughout May and June, the band will be adapting their white-heat live show to bring subtlety and clarity to the new songs from Sublimation, losing none of their unique and intense attitude in the process.