Track Of The Day :: Girls Names - A Hunger Artist

Words: Ellie Ward

Belfast's post-punks Girls Names follow their 11-minute mini-epic 'Zero
Triptych' and - the slightly shorter - 'Reticence' last month, the first single off their third album out this autumn.

Now the band share a further track from 'Arms Around A Vision'. The reverb-fired 'A Hunger Artist' - taken from the short story of the same name by Franz Kafka - stretches out to fill close on six minutes of atmospheric echoing guitars, synth interception and Cathal Cully's dark vocals. Not as metallic in sound as the previous 'Reticence', it also introduces keyboards in its long instrumental outro.

'Arms Around A Vision is out on October 2 via Tough Love.