girlfriend. - Carousel (2026)

The new album from girlfriend., the Dublin-Limerick five-piece who have become one of the most thrilling bands in Irish music. Formed almost a decade ago, their music pulls from emo, slowcore, grunge, punk and garage-rock.

Carousel gathers a shapeshifting intensity into a long-player, with moments of screaming catharsis followed by vocal harmony – the album was trailed by the singles ‘Kitchen Sink’ and the purgative, doom-laced ‘Horses’.

Ambitious, cathartic and increasingly fidgety stylistically, Carousel is an album borne of the moment – aware of the zeitgeist explorations of shoegaze and slowcore, but pre-existing and prone to heavier eruptions, creating an album that runs the gamut of guitar-lead rock performance with ease, across its short 28 minutes.