1 October 2026 – Pillow Queens Return as a Trio and Throw Logic Out the Window on Kiss Kiss

Dublin's Pillow Queens have returned with "Kiss Kiss," their first song since "Be A Big Girl" and the first substantial glimpse of how the band is evolving as a three-piece. Pam Connolly, Cathy McGuinness and Sarah Corcoran have responded to the lineup change not by attempting to disguise the missing space but by changing how they write altogether. Drum machines and loops entered the process, with the trio citing electronic touchstones including Moby, Fatboy Slim and The Chemical Brothers as they explored territory outside their established indie-rock framework.

"Kiss Kiss" consequently represents more than another single between albums. The band describe it as a song about desire when attraction, chaos and bad judgement become enthusiastically tangled together: knowing something may be a terrible idea and proceeding anyway because apparently the human nervous system did not read the risk assessment. That volatile subject suits the band's new rhythmic experiments particularly well.

Pillow Queens already have three albums behind them — In Waiting, Leave the Light On and Name Your Sorrow — so changing the creative machinery at this stage carries some risk. "Kiss Kiss" suggests they have turned that disruption into an advantage. Losing a member could have encouraged retreat toward familiar ground. Instead, Pillow Queens have apparently found the drum-machine cupboard and started pressing buttons.