The Null Club collabs with Miss Grit for new single 'Overgrown'

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Dublin's The Null Club returns with new single 'Overgrown' featuring New York's Miss Grit - a fellow electronic artist. Known as being the guitarist of Gilla Band, Alan Duggan-Borges has spent the last few years writing and producing music using an array of old synths, drum machines, and guitars – leaning into noise, techno and experimental hip hop, as well as post-punk.

The new single 'Overgrown' features Miss Grit and leans heavy into Techno and Noise. It is self-released on a limited run of 100 12” records on a label ran by Alan and his wife. It was mixed by Daniel Fox (Gilla Band), and mastered by Jamie Hyland (M(h)aol). The instrumental was performed and recorded by Alan in his rehearsal studio in Dublin, Ireland.

Alan explains on the new single "The hypnotic but kind of punishing nature of a 909 kick drum is something I’ve always searched for in music. When I first got a 909 drum machine and heard how full the kick drum could be by itself, I got lost in that specific low end for a good few weeks. The studio where I write has some big big subs, so I would sit there for hours chasing the full sound of those drums. That was the starting point of this track.

When I had a rough pass of the instrumental done, Miss Grit added vocals and life to the track. The whole thing came together quite naturally and the vocals added so much feel and texture to the track."

Miss Grit says on the collab, “I’ve been a fan of Alan’s work for a while now so I was honestly shocked he wanted to work with me. When he sent over the track I was obsessed, but also intimidated because it was so good and I didn’t know how I was gonna make it sound any better than it already was. I ended up writing lyrics about that basically - the overthinking and self-consciousness that often gets stirred up in myself when collaborating. I was so happy hearing the final version. Alan made me sound so much better than I thought I did.”

Earlier this year he released his debut EP under the same name of The Null Club, featuring Faris Badwan of The Horrors, Valentine Caulfield of Mandy, Indiana, and ELUCID of Armand Hammer, seeing support from Pitchfork, DORK, BBC 6 Music, The Guardian, The Needle Drop, The Line Of Best Fit, Stereogum, NME, Hot Press, UPROXX, Consequence, Brooklyn Vegan, and more.

Since then, The Null Club has been performing live as a solo entity. Using numerous synths, noise machines, guitars, and many pedals on stage, they're all looped into different amps to bring the songs to life in a live setting. Northern Transmissions described the debut London show as “incredible; it felt very interactive, almost, and raw, witnessing not just the actions but the thought process and preparations as well”. This project has created an opportunity to explore genres and styles of music outside of Gilla Band that Alan had never done before, as well as being completely in control of the production and instrumentation.

Miss Grit - the New York-based, Korean-American musician Margaret Sohn (they/she) - is a bold experimentalist and architect of sculptural texture known for deftly moving between analogue and digital, guitar and synths, and creating an immersive cosmos of sound with futuristic frameworks for their searching introspection.

Tour Dates

26 Nov - Whelan’s (Supporting Model/Actriz) - Dublin, Ireland

06 Dec - Zeitgeist Festival - Nijmegen, Netherlands

16 Jan - ESNS - Groningen, Netherlands

20/21 Feb - Boderline Festival – Dublin, Ireland

Tickets available here