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YOUMELTWORDS 12”
‘Peter Maybury and Gavin Duffy and can write a nasty rhythm, and their 2010 album, New Thoughts, proved that it’s possible to make very full-sounding rock music with little more than drums, bass and unprocessed vox. “5/8 Rhythm Here,” the b-side of their upcoming “Youmeltwords” 12-inch, pushes these accomplishments even further’ - The Fader
‘Anyone familiar with Thread Pulls’ forceful and intense live performances will know that containing them within the walls of the Joinery will be a tough task, one bound to make for an unforgettable experience for the audience.’ - Totally Dublin
‘no-wave and noiserock duo Thread Pulls tore down Cul de Sac during Incubate 2012. Now they are about to release a limited edition 12’ - Incubate
‘both sparse and echoey, and packed at the same time. A palette of noises combine to make something that is intriguing, that you know shouldn’t work, but it just does. And the percussion breakdown in the middle works so well. Thread Pulls treat the listener mean for ages, keeping them more than keen.’ - The Point Of Everything
‘oscillating synth pulse over a relentless 5/8 drum pattern, with what you might call an existential vocal…the brief blasts of processed trumpet relief that usher in a temporary chaos, like a door opening on city traffic.’ - Noise
Warszawa (japan)
‘Side A of the new 12″ from Dublin’s Thread Pulls is a richly percussive and minimal new song ‘You Melt Words’, taking the idea of live dub rhythms into an art-rock context. - Nialler9
LIVE
‘Thread Pulls is another psychedelic noise rock band, a duo from Ireland with drums, guitar, treated vocals and trumpet. Amazing live performance, best band of the day’ - Incubate link
‘Thread Pulls is undoubtedly one of the most exciting bands of the first night Eurosonic’ - Kicking The Habit link
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‘Thread Pulls ride an airtight rhythm section right through one locked groove after another, peppering their skeletal dance-rock pieces with dashes of brass and keys.’ - Self-titled link
‘Best Live Performance: Irish, December 2011’ - Noise link
’Optimo album of the month, March 2011’ - Monorail Music
‘Using dub sounds as its anchor, the band lays down stern basslines, unwavering rhythms through forward-thinking compositions that occupy the psychic headspace in between Long Fin Killie and Liars’ Drum’s Not Dead.’ - Other Music link
‘How the mighty fall.’ - meg link
‘The singer/front man alone was enough to put me off, with his various array of yelps and screeches laced in delay and reverb’ - Golden Plec link
‘Dark, mutant funk.’ - Whisperinandhollerin link
‘You can imagine this working under the dim lights of some scary disco housed by a cast of swaying zombies.’ - highbrowse.ie link
‘Thread Pulls have impressed with their debut album New Thoughts, a pounding, percussion-dominated record that recalls Drum’s Not Dead-era Liars with its skeletal, sinister grooves.’ - Drowned In Sound link
‘Heavy on percussion, the group have honed their rhythmic edge into a surgical knife…a very lean and focused album…they are obviously riding on the crest of a wave of inspiration.’ - Brainwashed link
‘They’ve already played in Copenhagen several times over the last couple of years, but it’s impossible to get enough of mutated disco-infused rock like this.’ - Distortion festival 2011 link
‘New Thoughts is consistently dark, lending a ghostly atmosphere to proceedings…People say ‘less is more’ and that’s certainly the case with Thread Pulls, feeding their very distinctive sound.’ - Noise link
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Clash Magazine feature
Hot Press feature
AU feature
Trinity News interview
Nialler9 ‘Top 30 Irish Albums of 2010’ - #15
Stranded ‘Top Irish Albums and Songs of 2010’ - #1
Electric Whipcrack ‘Top 20 Irish albums 2010’ - #5
Human Pleasure Radio Show ‘Best Releases of 2010’ - link
’New Thoughts is a receptacle for all sorts of musical history, from 1960s psych to taut post-punk and elemental disco and funk, yet never succumbs to any one ideal enough to derail this singular expedition.’ - Irish Times (4/5) link
‘Thread Pulls are the reformed, rationalised, efficient rock-making machine of the future.’ - Hot Press (4/5) link
‘at their core lies an urgent, tribal drumbeat which at once saves them from the encroaching claws of oppressive melancholia and takes them to the rhythmic heights of proto-disco’
Clash Magazine (8/10) link
‘It takes a lot of invention to make a setup like this work across the full duration of an album, but the angsty minimalism Thread Pulls summon up is more than up to the task’ - Boomkat link
‘Thread Pulls are the perfect soundtrack to driving around broken down industrial areas of Northern cities late at night, they recall some of the greatest bands to walk this sodden earth, apart from the afore-mentioned Liars and Cabaret Voltaire, This Heat, PIL, Throbbing Gristle, Joy Division, ESG, DAF all spring to mind at various points’ - Norman Records link
‘like This Heat rearranging their Twilight Furniture for some spirit dancing.’ - 20 Jazz Funk Greats link
”Thread Pulls hew a hypnotic rock gem from a spartan foundation of drums, bass, & arabesque synth flourishes’ - Altered Zones link
‘Thread Pulls swallow almost nothing, swallows it raw, and makes it sound like a full plate.’ - Visitation Rites link
‘Imagine a ghostly echo of the Gang of Four’s ‘Entertainment’ with all the guitars removed, with a touch of Joy Division’s most funereal bass’ - Resident (record of the week) link
‘this truly amazing twopiece! Basically with bass and drums, but also using synthesizer and trumpet, THREAD PULLS produce highly rhythmical Post-Punk with a minimalistic approach, but at the same time multi-facetted!’
X-mist link
’this tight, pounding record twists and turns as they egg each other on and add more concentration lines to their foreheads.’ - RTE ten (4/5) link
‘threadpulls is great to knit along to’ - Laura Ajmes
’The prime cuts include How To Talk, No Sound, HhYy and Starts/Ends, but it all makes for exhilarating, chilling listening. Just wait until it gets under your skin.’ - Sunday Business Post (4/5) link
‘This is music in thrall to the idea of rhythm. Lead guitars? No chance; they’d be a flourish too far on an album that snakes through a poisoned undergrowth of drum, bass, and occasional chopped-up fragments of trumpet and synthesiser.’ - AU (8/10) link
‘the perfect entry point to one of Dublin’s most consistently fascinating bands’ - Totally Dublin (4/5) link
‘the impressive final section that sees the duo nail their sound into three slices of near perfection that culminates in the most vibrant track on the record; ‘No Sound’. It’s an outstanding end to an excellent album.’
State.ie (4/5) link
‘loaded with hooks, choruses and melodies, a claim which can rarely be made of an Irish artrock record. New Thoughts is frequently a stunner.’ - Metro Herald (4/5) link
’You sense that time has allowed a great deal of thought to go into New Thoughts, of what to take out, how little can been left, not what else can be added. Hopefully New Thoughts will open a faster revolving door for Thread Pulls.’
Sonic Masala link
’This is a record with real surprises, and moments of narcotic mesmerism. Rush out to buy this record, because it’s one of the best releases of the year.’ - Their Bated Breath link
‘so sharp and right it’s 90° with just enough of a wave between those points to add a little mystery.’ - Harmless Noise (8/10) link
’The awesome Kraut-rockish Thread Pulls have followed fellow Dubliners Twinkranes in releasing a stonking debut album.’ - Cork Independent link
’’the sense of rigorous control in their sound has been the most compelling thing for me, and it’s taut and driving here throughout, though the result is very full and it manages not to be difficult listening despite being distant and at times a little sinister.’ - Handsome Young Stranger link
’New Thoughts is certainly an excellent record, its pounding percussion and sinister basslines creating hypnotic patterns.’
Electric Whipcrack link
‘The sound is warm, the sound is bass-heavy and booming, the sound is big, inviting, intriguing, a futurist post-punk primal stomp.’ - The Organ link
Previous press
‘Thred Palls izan awesom Iresh bannd whoo mak stript doun pos-puk noyz-rck/ an r nyce enuf too giv rway tuns ov mazin toons vya te innerned; Thy rool’ - Pinglewood
‘The occasional use of trumpet brings to mind Throbbing Gristle’s “Cornets” being covered by Sonic Youth…..This leaner, meaner and more muscular line up has left the music at its most powerful.’ - Brainwashed
‘It’s our first taste of The Noise of the weekend… Thread Pulls tree-surgeon Sonic Youth and night-time dockyard menace is a harsh contrast to the lush, impending spring outside.’ - Playlouder (review of performance at Vincent Gallo ATP)
‘Og der var strøm på dublindrengene, da de med The Fall-agtigt postpunk og Tortoise-kraut henrykkede det nu både stående og henslængte publikum.’ - Geiger (Hurra Festival review)
‘An exquisitely loud percussion and screaming guitar explosion, the post punk stomp that they began with touches base with bands like Liars, a primal funk hidden under sheet metal.’ - Brainwashed (Bardo Pond review)
‘fans of music that is neither soft nor safe also may find something to treasure here’ - Irish Times
‘To use lazy journalistic shorthand, Thread Pulls are Big Black covering This Heat. Does it get any better than that?’ - Wirewool blog 2
‘built from feedback, dissonant chops and reedy vocals that put one in mind of Thurston Moore traversing a tar pit,’ - The Wire
‘their minimalist aesthetic really shines through’ - Foxy Digitalis
‘ostinato pulse of snarling guitars and noises’ - Stylus magazine
