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Ġenn
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06.02.26
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On 30th October, Anglo-Maltese quartet ĠENN release their new single Reverberations via Liminal Collective. Their first new music since their UK charting debut LP unum in 2023. The track ushers in a brand-new chapter for the band, teaming up with Savages / Jehnny Beth producer Johnny Hostile and announcing a set of UK headline dates for February 2026.
The collaboration began with a mutual sense of respect and admiration, and immediately paid dividends with Hostile deftly accentuating the band’s idiosyncratic sound. A sound that shifts between calcified categories (touching upon alternative rock, post-punk and psychedelia) and has been celebrated for its negotiation of both technology and tradition. Hostile explains his feelings towards to working on the track:
“It’s got that rush I love in music - chaotic, beautiful, and impossible to resist, working on it felt like chasing pure energy, capturing something wild but true.” Reverberations provides a spectral - almost operatic - performance from vocalist Leona Farrugia, with lyrics glitching within a swirling pool of instrumentation. Beauty and melancholy is dialled up in an equally potent measure, once again outlining ĠENN as an act who care deeply about music’s ability to direct in a cinematic manner.
The single is also accompanied by its own visualiser - directed by Farrugia and filmed on their founding island of Malta. Whether audible or visual, the track consolidates an understanding of their position: their union is a powerful reclamation of the ghostly effects of their post-colonial roots. They do, however, very consciously avoid placing this as a simplistic slogan across the face of their work - these realisations simply echo through the diverse references of their sound, as guitarist Janelle Borg explains:
“In an era where people from migrant backgrounds have their culture and their music appropriated – but then discarded or even targeted – and in a socio-political climate that's far from kind to people who look like us, we're here to embrace what makes us different.”
“We’re here to share it with the world – and stand on stage and have our voices, our music, our culture and the core of who we are represented without fear.”
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