• Listen: Kool Thing – I See You (I am You)

    Kool Thing have cooled off in recent years to focus on various projects and relocate to Berlin so we’re delighted they’re back with a new single from their forthcoming second album which will be released early next year. We spoke to Julie Fogarty here for Inbound earlier in the year about her side project Under Tears, so here’s what she had to say about ‘I See You (I am You) : “I guess this song is about shedding ones past, getting rid of masks and starting again. It made sense for us to share this song first because it is a nice connection between where…

  • The Record: RuggedWood

    In the latest installment of The Record, our photographer Tara Thomas both shoots and reports back from from folk-pop five-piece Ruggedwood recording in the studio. “Trying to capture the atmosphere of a band laying down tracks is a tough task but one I relished when spending time with RuggedWood in Nutshed Studios Clara Co. Offaly. I arrived to the rhythm of beating drums and made my way into the Control Room, which was pretty impressive. Here I found the members of RuggedWood – Johnny, Ronan, Jerome, Ted & Geoff – passing the time, strumming guitars, having banter and munching crisps, awaiting their turn in the isolation booth. The…