{"id":360688,"date":"2026-09-30T11:22:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T11:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/360688\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:22:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T11:22:44","slug":"pillow-queens-return-with-new-single-kiss-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/360688\/","title":{"rendered":"Pillow Queens return with new single &#8216;Kiss Kiss&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nialler9.com\/band\/pillow-queens\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pillow Queens<\/a> are back with \u2018Kiss Kiss\u2019 bottles the chaos of early desire in a guitar-drenched single that nods to 90s Blur and The Dandy Warhols, out now via Royal Mountain Records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018Kiss Kiss\u2019 is a contrasting song for the Queens, a loose song about the early-stage love and lust drawing inspiration from 90s bands like Blur and The Dandy Warhols, eclectic electronic act Thievery Corporation and up to modern day Sharon Van Etten.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c\u2018Kiss Kiss\u2019 is about desire in its most volatile form: intense, physical, cyclical, where attraction and connection get knotted up with chaos. It\u2019s a dreamlike, unstable feeling of going with it anyway, a \u2018fuck it, it\u2019ll be grand\u2019 surrender. You recognise the cost, but throw yourself into the madness of love regardless, risking it all for that euphoria, which is really what we\u2019re all here for. Desire and love override logic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><br style=\"clear: both; display: block; float: none;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/fc14d00089a1e95baf5c80bd355f9237.jpg\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" alt=\"Pillow Queens - Kiss Kiss (Official Video)\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pillow Queens are now the three-piece  Pam Connolly (guitar\/vocals), Cathy McGuinness (guitar\/vocals) and Sarah Corcoran (bass\/vocals) and on new songs, the trio began experimenting with drum machines and loops, opening the door to new sonic territory and influences of Moby, Fatboy Slim and Chemical Brothers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe initially found it hard to readjust, but the challenge of experimenting with new methods of songwriting was exciting,\u201d Corcoran says. \u201cWe went in with no expectations and it just flew out of us,\u201d McGuinness adds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pillow Queens have released three albums to date \u2013  In Waiting (2020), Leave the Light On (2022) and Name Your Sorrow (2024).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018Kiss Kiss\u2019 is their first song since last year\u2019s \u2018Be A Good Girl\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/a2b859f39176ee073f5f5eefd261541f.jpg\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" alt=\"Be A Big Girl\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Niall-Byrne-Olga-Kuzmenko_IC2A0723.webp\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" alt=\"\" itemprop=\"image\" title=\"Pillow Queens Return With New Single 'Kiss Kiss' 11\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, <a href=\"https:\/\/nialler9.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">where he has been writing about music since 2005<\/a>. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent,\u00a0 Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter,\u00a0 and producer of gigs and <a href=\"http:\/\/nialler9.eventbrite.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">monthly listening parties &amp; events<\/a> in Dublin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pillow Queens are back with \u2018Kiss Kiss\u2019 bottles the chaos of early desire in a guitar-drenched single that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-360688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}