Girls In Synthesis Unveil Third Album “Sublimation”

After two critically acclaimed albums, 2020’s Now Here’s An Echo From Your Future and 2022’s The Rest Is Distraction, and numerous mini-album, EP and single releases, London based innovators Girls In Synthesis have returned with their third album, Sublimation. 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.

Girls In Synthesis adopted a radically different approach to making Sublimation compared to previous sessions. 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.

“We very much put a lot of importance on the geography and locations of the places we undertake projects. They seem to feed into the work itself. It was completely removed from any other distractions, and the studio was conducive to making music. It wasn’t a sterile environment. Owen really listened and made sure that the quality of the songs and the atmosphere and energy of the music transferred.” (Guitarist Jim Cubitt)

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 keyboard melodies. Their trademark, driving drums and bass foundation is particularly evident on songs 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 prove themselves head and shoulders above their contemporaries, 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, Girls In Synthesis 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. Be ready…