Gurriers double down on Nobody’s Coming To Save You

Dublin alt-rock band Gurriers release their second studio album this Friday. Nobody’s Coming To Save You arrives on 25 September 2026 via Play It Again Sam, a little over two years after the debut Come And See. It finds the group deliberately stepping beyond the noise?gaze ground on which that first record stood.

The album runs to ten tracks: the title song, Party Lines, Shades, Pins, Today Is Not Enough, Drones, Nothing Happens Twice, Waiting For Fisher, I Wish I Was and Crybaby. Sessions were split between Attica Studios in Donegal and Holy Mountain Studios in London. Mark Bowen of Idles and Loren Humphrey co-produced; John Congleton mixed. This combination points toward a denser, more physical record than the band’s early material — Bowen’s work with Idles and Congleton’s long run of alternative and rock credits both favour weight and clarity over haze.

The title track was released as the lead single in May 2026. Gurriers have described it as a song that can feel hopeless on first listen, yet they frame it as a call to action rather than a surrender. That tension is the thread they want running through the full set. The band have said they want to be an important act, writing songs of pain, longing and rage. The music itself moves into punk, grunge, hardcore and trip?hop, a conscious widening of the palette that began with Come And See.

Sleeve, sound and the shift from the debut

The artwork matches the refusal to soften: a screaming baby chick rendered in black and blood?red. Two years on from the debut, Gurriers are not circling the same ground. Come And See established them as a Dublin act with bite and volume. Nobody’s Coming To Save You asks what that bite becomes when harder edges and wider influences sit inside the same ten songs, shaped by producers who know how to make that force land on record and on stage.

The move is not a reinvention for its own sake. It is a test of how far the group’s first statement can stretch — into rooms that demand more projection, and into a set of influences that leave less room for drift. Punk, grunge, hardcore and trip?hop are named not as decoration but as the working vocabulary of the new material. The title track’s mix of hopelessness and urgency is the clearest signal of that intent so far; the remaining nine songs are where the claim will be measured once the album is out.

From release week into the autumn dates

Touring will carry the record into the venues that can hold it. UK, European and Irish dates have been lined up around the release. Confirmed Irish stops include Ulster Hall in Belfast on 28 October, Vicar Street on 29 October and the 3Olympia Theatre on 1 November. Those three shows alone map a short, concentrated home run from Belfast into two of Dublin’s principal rooms within a handful of days in late October and early November.

Further UK and EU dates form part of the same run. The timing places the live work only weeks after the album reaches shops and streams, so the new songs will be tested in public while they are still fresh. For a band that has spoken of pain, longing and rage as the raw material of the writing, that sequence matters: the record is built to be played loud, and the autumn itinerary gives it the rooms in which to do so.

Nobody’s Coming To Save You is out on 25 September. The Irish dates follow in the weeks after. What remains is the work of hearing whether the call to action the band describe holds across the full ten tracks, and whether the shift from noise?gaze beginnings into punk, grunge, hardcore and trip?hop delivers the weight they are reaching for. The debut put Gurriers on the map. The second album is the first real measure of how far they mean to go.