The debut album from Dublin’s Pillow Queens couldn’t be arriving at a better time. With society increasingly fractured – both by the rhetoric of division spread by our political leaders and by our current six-feet-apart reality – the underlying message that courses through ‘In Waiting’ is one of unity, community and inclusivity.

Pillow Queens have on a couple of occasions said that growing up they’d have loved to have seen a band just like them. Modern rock‘n’roll too often rewards retro parroting, so attempting to fill a void is a noble endeavour. But you don’t construct great art out of honourable intentions. The eternal actuality of rock never changes: the tunes have to shred…

“There’s something arrestingly heart-on-sleeve about In Waiting. Somewhere within the emotional abandon of the lyrics and Pillow Queens own raw music, the record hides nothing from the listener, and in-turn leaves us with a sense of complete catharsis…