Bristol alt-rock-pop outfit gürl are back with their latest track ‘Boys in the 90s’, a semi-nostalgic throwback to a time that must have been ‘better’ because it’s certainly come back around to being cool. Something that gürl are pointing towards in their unique way. Combining heaviness in some power riffs with a pop-y core in there too. Maybe the most ‘2000trees’ artist outside of Frank Turner.
Says vocalist and lyricist Josh Dalton:
“It’s about growing up poor, on a council estate, going to a special measures school, and getting beaten up by kids that think you’re ugly… but then coming home and watching these 90s movies where men aren’t really portrayed as typically masculine or handsome, but instead androgynous and beautiful. Seeing that and thinking, why can’t I look like that?
“It’s about insecurity, and rage, and reverence to 90s icons. Even the drum beat we ripped straight off Backstreet Boys.”