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Irish altrock collective NewDad announce details of their debut album, MADRA, set for release on 26 January 2024 through Fair YouthAtlantic. Awash with spiralling guitars and a hypnotic bassline, singerguitarist Julie Dawson finds inspiration in TV show Euphoria, as she ruminates on the destructive relationship of characters, Rue and Jules a storyline that she herself gravitated towards.MADRA meaning ‘dog ‘ in Irish is an 11song, guitarstacked visceral outing, as singerguitarist Julie Dawson embarks on a journey of selfexploration, selfsabotage, and reflection. Soaked in dysfunction, Madra searches for solace in pain, tackling themes of bullying ‘Where I Go’ , selfmedicationdepression ‘Madra’ , ‘Let Go’ , destruction ‘Change My Mind’ , ‘White Ribbons’ , codependency ‘Nosebleed’ and resistance ‘Nightmares’ . The album artwork, photographed by Irish creative, Joshua Gordon, shows a broken doll that serves as a metaphor for the album’ s themes of fragility and vulnerability.The album finds NewDad reconnect with their musical roots, digging deep into the shoegazerock sonics that soundtracked their formative years the band cite Pixies, The Cure and Slowdive as some of their biggest early influences, together with glimmers of indiepop that harks back to their earlier material ‘Waves EP’ 2021 and ‘Banshee EP’ 2022. Written in their home city of Galway, Ireland, before the band moved to London this year, and recorded at the legendry Rockfield Studios Black Sabbath, Queen, the album has been produced by NewDad’ s longtime collaborator Chris Ryan Just Mustard and mixed by Alan Moulder The Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails, Wet Leg. Bound together by Julie’ s ghostly vocal a vessel for her weighty, introspective songwriting ndash MADRA firmly marks NewDad as one of Ireland’ s most promising debut guitar bands. NewDad Vinyl is available for home delivery from Vinyl Records London, only £21