Belfast band Girls Names are gearing up for the release of their new album Stains on Silence, landing June 15th on Tough Love Records. The group shared the leading single ’25’ last month and now return with a second track titled ‘Karoline’. Whilst still slightly darker in sound, the track takes a more up-spirited approach compared to their previous song, etching closer to the side of lush and atmospheric production.

Touching on the single, Girls Names’ Cathal Cully stated:

“Karoline is a fictional character who represents whatever you put on a pedestal and chase after, long for or get eaten up with memory and nostalgia over. In a way the whole record is Karoline. I think there’s an element of getting older and life getting heavier; something is always holding you back, holding you down. The last line of the track and subsequently the record, “Eating out the scum in Western Man” was the working title of the LP for about a year and a half. A sobering end.”