“If you remember a thing about it, tell me that it’s not bad. Why’d I even say that?” Sung with a lump in the throat and a downward glance, Holy Show relives the shame in spilling your truth. In the great and occasionally careless navigation of life, the hardest move is being yourself. And on their long-awaited debut album, Pillow Queens mark out the many bumps that eventually lead to self-acceptance.

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…