Members
John Linger
Vocals, Bass
Jim Cubitt
Vocals, Guitar
Nicole Pinto
Drums
Post-Punk, Noise Rock & DIY Innovators
“Girls In Synthesis” are wonderfully described as looking ‘more like a terror cell than a rock group’. Lyrically they are dealing with working class experience of fragile mental health, social immobility, a sense of powerlessness, precarity, anxiety and the corrosive effects of a hostile society. Straight down the barrel vocal delivery from John Linger as he barks out…
‘I’ve seen a glimpse of the future!’
Girls In Synthesis are a London-based trio redefining the boundaries of anarcho-punk, modern post-punk, noise rock and electronic influences with unrelenting intensity, sonic innovation, and a fiercely independent spirit. More than a band, they operate as a collective, producing all recordings, videos, artwork, and photography entirely in-house. Their uncompromising DIY approach has made them a cornerstone of the UK underground scene, with a hard-core following that often travels across the country to witness their visceral, immersive live shows.
Since forming in 2016, Girls In Synthesis have developed a sound that is impossible to pigeonhole. Rooted in anarcho-punk, their music also draws on dub, disco, musique concrète, and deathrock—without ever lingering in one place for long. The result is a distinct sonic identity: raw yet deliberate, abrasive yet intricately constructed. Their early work, including debut single The Mound and a trilogy of now highly collectible EPs on Blank Editions, quickly earned cult status. These formative releases were later compiled in 2019 as Pre/Post: A Collection 2016–2018 on Louder Than War Records, which sold out within days.
In 2022, Girls In Synthesis unveiled Konsumrausch, a standalone mini-album for Hound Gawd! Records. This release showcased some of their most daring work to date. Pulling Teeth, a nine-minute post-punk odyssey, veers from sludge-heavy guitar riffs into spoken-word disco, tackling political manipulation with depth and nuance. Enveloped trades distorted guitars for churning organ and industrial drum loops, exploring themes of personal disintegration and existential anxiety. New tracks like Bypassing, Interlude and The Engine delve further into sparse, textural electronics, balancing claustrophobic tension with melodic sharpness.
Recorded at Gun Factory and S.I.C.K. Studio in London, Konsumrausch affirmed the group’s status as sonic provocateurs who never repeat themselves. Vocalists John Linger (bass) and Jim Cubit (guitar) trade lines that dissect modern psychological unease, while Nicole Pinto’s tribal drums remain the heartbeat of their sound.
Their latest EP, Die Leere, strips back the noise to reveal an austere, crystalline clarity—an evolution from the brooding emotional density of their previous album The Rest Is Distraction. While maintaining their signature rhythmic aggression, the band explores the physicality of anxiety and the paralysis of indecision with remarkable focus and restraint. Die Leere is stark, melodic, and suffused with a deathrock sheen that reframes their sonic chaos into something equally intense, but newly refined.
In a time when many bands soften their edges and sanitize their message, Girls In Synthesis stand defiantly alone—urgent, uncompromising, and fiercely original.
Their body of work is a testament to what independent music can still be: political without preaching, experimental without alienating, and deeply human without ever losing its bite.
Discography
Now Here’s An Echo From Your Future
Harbinger Sound
TRACKLIST
1. Arterial Movements
2.Pressure
3. The Images Agree
4. Scrapped
5. Human Frailty
6. They're Not Listening
7. Cause For Concern
8. Coming Up For Air
9. Set Up To Fail
10. Tirades of Hate and Fear
Shift In State
Harbinger Sound
TRACKLIST
1. Containment
2. Containment Dub
3. ... But Still You Wanted More
4. Calm Waters
5. Don't Try
Konsumrausch
Hound Gawd! Records
Their new release “Konsumrausch”, an exclusive standalone mini album for Hound Gawd!, explores various sonic territories and expands on the group’s previous releases by adding further experimentation.
“Konsumrausch” sees recent singles “Pulling Teeth” and “Enveloped” cut on vinyl for the first time. The former is a 9 minute, tri-part post-punk opus, which flits from sludgy noise-rock to musique concrete and, finally, to a disco influenced four-to-the-floor, spoken word conclusion. Lyrics explore political manipulation and the finger pointing by the ruling classes, but in a non patronising, non-sloganeering way. The song has become a centrepiece for the live shows since its release.
The latter, “Enveloped”, is possibly the band’s most daring song to date. Based around an industrial-edged drum machine loop, the song swaps the usual splintered guitars for grinding, churning organ. It could possibly, or lazily, described as electro-punk. The bleak mood of the music is reflected in the lyrics, which deal with the narrator linking their own loss of self-worth with a foreseen view of the same happening to the human race en masse.
The release also features 3 brand-new tracks in “Bypassing”, “Interlude” and “The Engine”. Dealing with the latter, “The Engine” retains the guitar-led edge of the early “Girls In Synthesis” releases but strips back the layers of noise and feedback to leave a more skeletal, angular framework over which lyrics of anxiety, nostalgia and claustrophobia are explored.
“Bypassing” is another song rooted in electronics, rhythmically centred around a Western-style, cowboy gallop. Lyrically, the song cryptically explores the aforementioned destructive focus on nostalgia and mental struggle. Lastly, coming in at under a minute, “Interlude” can be perceived as an ‘urban’ poem set to the aural surroundings of the narrator. With field recordings taken from London public transport and added unsettling synths and feedback, it presents a nauseous blend of high anxiety in the modern age.
TRACKLIST
1. Pulling Teeth
2. Enveloped
3. Bypassing
4. Interlude
5. The Engine
The Rest Is Distraction
Own It Music
TRACKLIST
1. It’s All Beginning To Change
2. Watch With Mother
3. Total Control
4. Swallowed Pill
5. Screaming
6. My Husband
7. Cottage Industry
8. Not As I Do
9. Lacking Bite
10. Your Prayers Have Changed
11. To A Fault
Die Leere
Hound Gawd! Records
Lauded London-based trio Girls In Synthesis proudly delivers a new stand-alone EP, the superlative ‘Die Leere’. Following on from their second LP The Rest Is Distraction, ‘Die Leere’ sees the band strip back some of the atonal, noisy elements of their sound and replace it with an intense sparseness, glassy clarity, and added melodic touch. The band’s trademark tribal drums and driving bass are still present, alongside warped, deathrock-influenced modulated guitar figures, all adding up to a refreshing update on their truly experimental post-punk.
Taking a verse each, vocalists John and Jim sing succinct lines dealing with the physicality of human anxiety, and project the anguish of indecision. This subject matter leads on from the internal questioning and emotional darkness on The Rest Is Distraction, leaving the sloganeering and broad statements to the current crop of UK guitar bands.
Unlike to the title ‘I Know No Other Way’, the EP shows the band do know another way and the way is no less brilliant than what’s gone before, and undoubtedly what is to come next.
‘Die Leere’ was recorded and mixed by Girls In Synthesis and recorded at Gun Factory and S.I.C.K. Studio in London and mastered by Ayumu Matsuo. The line-up is John Linger on lead vocals and bass; Jim Cubit on vocals and guitar; and Nicole Pinto on drums.
TRACKLIST
1. I Know No Other Way
2. I Know No Other Dub
3. Sinking Feeling
4. Against The Seething
Sublimation
Own It Music
TRACKLIST
1. Lights Out
2. Deceit
3. Semblance Of Choice
4. We Are Here
5. Corrupting Memories
6. I Was Never There
7. Picking Things Out Of The Air
8. I Judge Myself
9. Subtle Differences
10. The Prefix
11. A Damning Lesson
