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EMERGED 2015 · WHAT IT GREW OUT OF POST-PUNK, NOISE ROCK, NO WAVE, INDIE ROCK, KRAUTROCK, JAZZ FUSION · 5 TRACKS TO START WITH, 5 SOURCES

Mark Beaumont coined the name in NME in September 2019 for sharp British and Irish guitar bands with a ranting, half-spoken singer, naming Fontaines D.C., Squid, Idles and Do Nothing. It draws on post-punk, noise rock, no wave and krautrock, and Wikipedia counts Dublin's Gilla Band, from 2015, as its first group. Many of the bands passed through Dan Carey's Speedy Wunderground label and the Windmill in Brixton.

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