Dublin band Silverbacks will return with their third album, Easy Being A Winner, on October 18 via Central Tones / Cargo. They co-produced it with Daniel Fox and guitarists Daniel and Killian O’Kelly’s father contributed clarinet and spoken word.
“Fad and Archive Material naturally drew a lot of comparisons to the post-punk scene,” Daniel says of how their first two albums differ from the new one. “But I never saw those albums in that way. But I sometimes felt the people coming to our shows and the press we got came to see us for those comparisons. Now that Easy Being a Winner is coming out, I feel I can more confidently say who we are. We’re indie rock. And this album sounds even more like the indie rock I imagined for our band all those years ago.”
There are two songs to listen to now: opening track “Selling Shovels,” which mixes clanging percussion with the groups’ three-guitar attack, and “Something I Know” is a little more on the dancey side, features bassist Emma Hanlon on lead vocals, and woodwinds via Daniel and Killian’s father. Watch videos for both — the choreography-heavy “Something I Know” is especially good — below.
Easy Being A Winner
01 – Selling Shovels
02 – Giving Away An Inch Of
03 – Look At All You’ve Done
04 – Hide Away
05 – Something I Know
06 – Flex
07 – Spinning Jenny
08 – No Rivers Around Here
09 – Billion Star Night Light
10 – Songs About Divide
11 – Easy Being A Winner
SILVERBACKS – 2024 TOUR DATES
19th October – The Workman’s Club, Dublin
20th October – Coughlan’s, Cork
24th October – Yes (Basement), Manchester
25th October – Sidney & Matilda, Sheffield
26th October – The Shacklewell Arms, London
9th November – Mutations Festival, Brighton
10th November – Yours To Keep Festival, Huddersfield