Having once been known on the Irish rock scene as Sub Motion, Dublin-based musicians Rebecca Geary, Conor McLoughlin, Sean O’Connor and Cormac O’Neill rebranded themselves as Sick Love in 2018 and unleashed an awesomely energetic tune entitled “Are You Ready?” under the new band name last September. Since then, they’ve been busy putting on performances in both Ireland and the UK, enlivening audiences at the likes of The Academy of Dublin, Paper Dress Vintage Bar & Boutique of London and Babel of Belfast.
Most recently though, the adept quartet dropped a brand new single named “Soccer Mom”. Put together with assistance from producer James Darkin at their hometown’s Herbert Place Studios, the fantastically feisty three and a quarter minute track is introduced by an onslaught of exhilarating instrumentation before the spotlight shifts to some superbly spirited singing during the delightfully zestful first verse.
The ambience remains rousing going into the second minute as another terrifically spunky stanza paves the way to an exhibition of exceptionally invigorating instrumentation. This is succeeded by a display of enticingly fiery vocals, which proceeds to escort the proceedings to an appropriately peppy conclusion.
The outcome is a captivatingly characterful and passionate alt-rock anthem that embeds itself deep in the mind and refuses to withdraw. If this and “Are You Ready?” are indicative of the type of material that we can expect from Sick Love going forward, then a full-length record from the foursome really can’t come quick enough.
If you haven’t already done so, be sure to investigate the video for “Soccer Mom” on the official Sick Love Youtube channel at your earliest convenience, and if you’re in the Dublin area on the evening of Saturday March 2nd, you can catch the quartet performing live at The Sound House of Eden Quay from 7.30pm.