{"id":360712,"date":"2026-09-30T12:02:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T12:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/360712\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T12:02:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T12:02:42","slug":"pillow-queens-release-new-single-kiss-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/360712\/","title":{"rendered":"Pillow Queens release new single &#8216;Kiss Kiss&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Pillow Queens are currently mixing their fourth album but have not yet announced a release date.<\/p>\n<p>Dublin indie-rock band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotpress.com\/Pillow-queens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pillow Queens<\/a> have released a new single, &#8216;Kiss Kiss&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Kiss Kiss&#8217; is about desire in its most volatile form: intense, physical, cyclical, where attraction and connection get knotted up with chaos,&#8221; said the band. &#8220;It&#8217;s a dreamlike, unstable feeling of going with it anyway, a &#8216;fuck it, it&#8217;ll be grand&#8217; surrender &#8230; Desire and love override logic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pillow Queens are a three-piece comprising guitarists Pam Connolly and Cathy McGuinness and bassist Sarah Corcoran &#8211; with all providing vocals.<\/p>\n<p>Having previously been a four-piece, the band described the change:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We initially found it hard to readjust, but the challenge of experimenting with new methods of songwriting was exciting,&#8221; Corcoran said. &#8220;We went in with no expectations and it just flew out of us,&#8221; McGuinness added.<\/p>\n<p>The group have released three albums, In Waiting in 2020, Leave the Light On in 2022 and Name Your Sorrow in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>After the release of their sophomore album, the band earned a nomination for Album of the Year at the RT\u00c9 Choice Music Prize, and made their late night television debut on The Late Late Show with James Corden.<\/p>\n<p>Live, the band has opened for the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotpress.com\/IDLES\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IDLES<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotpress.com\/pavement\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pavement<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotpress.com\/phoebe-bridgers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoebe Bridgers<\/a> and made headline appearances internationally.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, they were featured on National Public Radio&#8217;s (NPR) World Cafe music programme, alongside other Irish acts such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotpress.com\/cmat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CMAT<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotpress.com\/dermot-kennedy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dermot Kennedy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotpress.com\/madra-salach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Madra Salach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pillow Queens are currently mixing their fourth album but have not yet announced a release date.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to &#8216;Kiss Kiss&#8217; and watch the music video below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pillow Queens are currently mixing their fourth album but have not yet announced a release date. Dublin indie-rock&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-360712","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\/360712","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=360712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}