giveamanakick’s second album "We Are The Way Forward" Is Out Now on OutOnALimb Records
giveamanakick are steve and Keith. Having spent the past 2 years playing with various rock luminaries and music press darlings such as The Icarus Line, Ex-Girl, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Electric Eel Shock, Isis, The Soledad Brothers, Unsane, Melt Banana, Electric 6, Black Eyes, The Undertones, Presidents of the United States Of America and Rocket From the Crypt, as well as peddling their debut album "Is It Ok To Be Loud, Jesus?" to anybody who'd listen, giveamanakick rested. Briefly. Then, after an extensive UK tour, a now near legendary appearance at Oxegen, live TV performances, Radio Sessions, constant Local,National and International Airplay, and many sleepless nights, they knew the time had come again.
"We Are The Way Forward" is giveamanakick's second album. Recorded in a flurry of furious activity over six consecutive days, its creative process included a 13 van hour journey, a banjo (Steve), a sweater vest (Keith), and a crash which resulted in the writing off of "Fergus", giveamanakick’s once trusty vehicle. In these six days, giveamanakick created an intensely barbed and viciously precise second album. They have captured the frenetic energy, the wilful mayhem, and the sheer....noise of their live performance, and stuck it on a shiny CD in the guise of 12 brand new songs. With songs such as "Suffer The Gowls", "Red Faced Killers", "Sick From Motion" and "Spit", giveamanakick's sound has not mellowed in these past two years, but has become a finely tuned aural assassin, sprung from the fiery pits of Hell. Or something like that anyway...
"We Are The Way Forward" deals with everything giveamanakick want to deal with, loudly. You need it, Get it now.
We
Are The Way Forward combines
the ugliness of brute force with the beauty of
invention…A classic”
9 out of 10
Hot Press
"We
Are the Way Forward will surprise you with its knockabout skills, unlikely hooks
and wild sense of abandon...A ton of fun"
4
out of 5
The
Irish Times
"One
of the best noisy albums to come out of Ireland in recent times... They
did it - two sly fuckers from Limerick
and their brilliant album"
4
½ out of 5
FoggyNotions
"One
of the best rackets you'll hear all year!"
4
out of 5
The
Clare People
"A big two fingers up to the
world... without a doubt the best band in Ireland right now. There really is no
competition. We Are The Way Forward is just that."
Limerick
Leader
"Proving that Irish music doesn't have to be soulless and commercial... Unapologetically loud, with an inimitable sense of humour, giveamanakick are the
way forward."
www.drop-d.ie
"A second sizzling instalment from one of Ireland's still-stupidly
undervalued bands...It boots punk rock botty with the best of 'em, and by Christ
it hurts real good!"
8 out of 10
www.whisperinandhollerin.com
"This is a live show in your lounge room and I cannot sit here, inertly another second!" Careless Talk Costs Lives /December 2003
"bloody fantastic... one of the Irish punk rock releases of the year " Hot Press
"Giveamanakick's debut album pummels and grinds like nobody's business, unleashing sheets of noise, mantra-like swirls, dramatic curveball chord changes, motor-mouth bawling and the occasional fucked up Pixies-style pop song. Aces." Foggy Notions, Issue No 2, 2003
"Grab this with both hands when it comes out, it's a potential classic" Unfit For Consumption Zine Issue 7
"This exploded from the speakers like an overpacked firework, with bursts of heavy rock that drives along like a fully-laden downhill juggernaut" Fracture Zine Final Issue
"a reinvention of punk and hardcore from about 1970 to the present taken to its minimalist end. demented genius, so go and buy the album." www.thumped.com
"it's easy to see from this how giveamanakick could be an incendiary live act" www.RTE.ie