Girls In Synthesis Share “My Husband” From Upcoming Album “The Rest Is Distraction”

Experimental post-punk outfit Girls In Synthesis are set to release the eagerly anticipated follow up to 2020’s incendiary debut, Now Here’s An Echo From Your Future. Entitled The Rest Is Distraction and available this coming October 14th via the band’s own label Own It Records and Cargo Records, it’s mix of fractured guitar, crushing drums and bass, intense vocals and lyrical content, create as challenging a record as you will hear this year. Recorded last year amidst the uncertainty of continuous lockdowns as a result of the global Covid-19 pandemic, The Rest Is Distraction is far darker in content than its predecessor. Mainly exploring internal and mental struggles as opposed to external current affairs, it focuses on the claustrophobia of emotional anguish and continues to bravely delve into previously unventured topics. Featuring frequent collaborators Funkcutter and Stanley Bad on horns and violin, respectively, two songs also see Eleni Poulou (The Fall) on keyboards. The album was mixed by long-term collaborator Max Walker, mastered in France by Ayumu Matsuo and features stunning landscape photography by Bea Dewhurst.

Sonically atramentous and less one dimensional than the band’s debut, The Rest Is Distraction, takes its cues from Join Hands era Siouxsie & The Banshees, Brainiac and Crass’ Christ The Album, among others. From the first crackle of electricity on the opening track, to the heart wrenching taped voice-recording on the final outro, this album triumphantly retains every ounce of intensity and vitality that makes Girls In Synthesis one of the most captivating bands to emerge from the UK DIY underground in recent years. Girls In Synthesis have now released a new track, My Husband, ahead of the album’s release. Musically, it’s a slight departure for the band with a sparse four-on the-floor disco beat propelling the track, but there’s still a real feeling of dread that runs through the song both musically and lyrically. 

“I wrote it from the angle of someone living with a physically abusive partner, and the fear, isolation and anxiety they manage daily. I see this as a key track on the record. The intensity is created through minimalism, rather than full on noise. It’s a hard thing to pull off. And I think we really did. With the video we really tried to capture the tension that hangs over the song. That isolation and vulnerability, with it being too literal. The subject matter of the song must be treated with respect, and we did that by presenting the viewer with a series of images that frame the outside world that exists alongside their internal, domestic reality.”