| Gengahr | |
| Landscape: | yes |
| Origin: | London, England |
| Years Active: | 2013–present |
| Label: | Transgressive, Liberator Music |
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Gengahr are an English indie rock band, formed in 2013 at Stoke Newington School in Hackney, London.[1]
Though originally named RES, they were forced to rename after discovering an artist already called RES on iTunes. Their new name is a play on Gengar, one of the original Pokémon. Their debut album, A Dream Outside, was released on 15 June 2015.[2] In October 2017 it was announced their second album, Where Wildness Grows, would be released on 9 March 2018.[3]
After BBC Radio 1 DJ Huw Stephens played their first single, "Fill My Gums With Blood" on his radio show, the band were invited to perform at the Introducing stage at the 2014 Glastonbury Festival.[4]
A Dream Outside received positive reviews from most music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 79, based on 10 reviews, which indicates "almost entirely favourable reviews".[5] Rhian Daly of NME described A Dream Outside as "an oddly soothing blend of dark romance and gentle psychedelia."[6]
Gwilym Mumford of The Guardian praised the album as being subtly refined and "psychpop with heavy emphasis on the pop."[7]
Haydon Spenceley of Clash Magazine wrote, "It might be jumping the gun a bit to call them the 'saviours of British guitar music', or anything along those lines, but it must surely rank amongst the finest guitar-driven debut album to be coughed up by British music thus far in 2015."[8]
| Title | Details | |
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| A Dream Outside |
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| Where Wildness Grows |
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| Sanctuary |
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| Red Sun Titans |
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| Single | Year | Album |
|---|---|---|
| "Fill My Gums with Blood" | 2014 | A Dream Outside |
| "She's a Witch" | 2015 | |
| "Heavenly Maybe"[9] | 2019 | Sanctuary |
| "Under the Skin"[10] | 2021 | |
| "A Ladder"[11] | 2023 | Red Sun Titans |
| "In the Moment"[12] |