Girls Names Offer Debut Album Details, Free MP3

Recipients of the YNFB seal of approval last year, Belfast's Girls Names will release their debut album, Dead To Me, on Monday April 25 via Tough Love Records, with Slumberland Records handing the LP a US release the following day.

Recorded during the second half of 2010 with new bassist Claire Miskimmin in toe, Tough Love say the trio’s songwriting has become more defined and the production values have been sharpened, meaning the ten track album will likely take up where ‘I Lose’, November’s split 7” with San Francisco’s Brilliant Colors, left off. The album's closing track ‘Séance On A Wet Afternoon’ - free to download below - would seem to suggest as much.

You can pre-order Dead To Me here. To hear what the new tunes sound like in the flesh, meanwhile, you can catch the noise-pop trio opening for British Sea Power in Dublin and Belfast later this week, as well as Sleigh Bells in Belfast on Saturday. The band will also be playing a couple of London dates the following weekend. Full details below:

Dead To Me tracklisting:
1. Lawrence
2. I Could Die
3. When You Cry
4. No More Words
5. Nothing More to Say
6. I Lose
7. Cut Up
8. Bury Me
9. Kiss Goodbye
10. Séance On A Wet Afternoon

Girls Names live dates:
Feb 17 - Academy, Dublin w/British Sea Power
Feb 18 - Spring & Airbrake, Belfast w/ British Sea Power
Feb 19 - Winter BASE @ Ulster Hall, Belfast w/ Sleigh Bells
Feb 26 - No Being Weird @ The Victory, London w/Let's Wrestle, Proper Ornaments
Feb 27 - Popfest @ The Lexington, London w/14 Iced Bears
March 3 - The Silver Bullet, London
March 4 - White Light @ The Lexington, London w/ very special secret guests
May 21 - The Menagerie, Belfast w/Chain and the Gang