Visceral rock show on cards from CPNHGN

CPNHGN, who play Monroe’s Live this Sunday night, may have a name that sounds Scandinavian but this outfit hail from much closer to home – from Co Kildare to be exact.

However, they have been influenced by sounds from across the globe, with New York’s Interpol, Seattle noise rockers Sonic Youth and Brit acts like Editors and Joy Division all evoked on their debut album, Inhale Exhale.

The four-strong band takes rumbling bass-lines and angular, jilting guitar riffs and marry them with soaring melodic choruses to tremendous effect. For Inhale Exhale they looked to the past as well as the future, crafting an album that harks back to the era of analogue recording, by preserving raw emotion and passion while also capturing their strident sense of melody and dynamism. The album was written and recorded in Dublin’s Temple Lane Recording Studios.

CPNHGN offer energetic, visceral indie rock of the highest order, and a welcome break from the anodyne efforts of Ireland’s current rock royalty.

The group made up of Conor Wilkins, Donal Fleming, Steven Devine, and Kevin Brew, play Monroe’s Live this Sunday, March 30. Doors are at 9pm Admission is €5.