Rising Dublin-based post punk outfit Gurriers — Dan Hoff (vocals), Ben O’Neill (guitar, backing vocals), Mark MacCormack (guitar), Charlie McCarthy (bass) and Pierce O’Callaghan (drums) — formed during the pandemic and they’ve built a reputation for bone-rattling mosh-ready live shows and sharp, socially conscious lyricism. Since the release of 2024’s full-length debut, Come And See, the band has also built a regional and international profile with a standout appearance on Later . . . with Jools Holland, main stage sets at Glastonbury‘s Woodsies and Leftfield stages, sets at Electric Picnic, Rock N Roll Circus, Leeds Festival, opening slots on Turnstile’s and Kneecap‘s arena tours, an opening slot for Jack White, as well as a recent Stateside tour.
The rising Irish quintet’s highly-anticipated Mark Bowen and Loren Humphrey co-produced sophomore album Nobody’s Coming To Save You was released last Friday through Play It Again Sam. Recorded between Donegal-based Attica Studios and London-based Holy Mountain Studios, the album captures Gurriers scaling up every element that made their 2024 debut compelling — but with sharper dynamics, towering production and an even more urgent worldview.
Throughout Nobody’s Coming To Save You, Gurriers channel the spirit of protest, resistance and personal reflection into what may arguably be their most ambitious material to date, essentially taking the spirit of the sweaty basement venue and making it stadium-sized.
Their sophomore album’s latest single “Waiting For Fisher” is a bruising and furiously urgent tune, featuring mosh pit-meets-arena rock friendly hooks and choruses, crrnchy and angular riffs, a relentless motorik groove and thunderous drumming paired with Hoff’s punchy and sneering delivery. Nodding at Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and the work of anti-capitalist writer Mark Fisher, “Waiting For Fisher” is fiery take on the absurdity of capitalism and the frustration of working-day drudgery that brings the personal and the political together with a much-needed urgency — but while also reminding the listener that the political is personal.
Directed by Thomas James, the world of the accompanying video is a dystopian world, not unlike our own. in which everything, including human connection is marketed to you — and in which the desperation for connection can be murderous.
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