Northern Ireland's GIRLS NAMES return with their third full-length album, "Arms Around a Vision". For fans of: The Horrors, These New Puritans, The Cure, Savages, Deerhunter, Toy, Ice Age, Fire Engines, Wire.

Girls Names formed in Belfast, but they've long considered themselves a European band. Their last album, "The New Life", was an unexpected worldwide underground hit in early 2013, culminating in nominations for both the Northern Irish and Irish Music Prizes.

Emboldened by the reception to that record, they returned with an 11-minute single. Typically, it does not feature on their new album.

Girls Names like to do things a little differently. On "Arms Around a Vision", they're more widescreen than ever but also more direct and aggressive.

The bass, drums and guitars are still there, but so are saxophones, organs, detuned broken guitars and pianos, and even sheets of metal assaulted with hammers.

Conceptually, Arms Around a Vision acts as a love letter to European elegance - Italian futurism, Russian constructivism, Germany's Zero Group and both Neubauten and Bowie's Berlin.

Love and pain, romance and fucking. It's all in there somewhere. An album that treads a course between Eno-era Roxy sleaze, Birthday Party dissonance and M.E.S' three R's: repetition, repetition, repetition.

While the songs aren't narrative-driven as such - the band still generally favour abstraction and ambiguity - there is a consistent underlying message: "We've got nothing.

We've never had anything. And we don't expect to. The only person I ever wanted to impress was myself.

I've never got anywhere close to succeeding in doing that until this album."