With a title immediately conjuring the titular despondence of The Twilight Sad or a Mark Kozelek album track, Dublin’s Tandem Felix have unveiled the mellow, Americana-tinged ‘Nothing I Do Will Ever Be Good Enough’. Having featured in the third issue of our monthly physical magazine, the band – sporting a new line-up and notable shift in sound – will release their new EP, Comma, on Trout Records on April 27. Read our feature on the label in the second issue of our magazine online here.
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The video for ‘Idle Hands’, the first track from the new record by space-oriented drone pop outfit Documenta is now online. The rarely seen ensemble, led by singer, guitarist and songwriter Joe Greene, has already announced that there will only ever be three Documenta LPs, with only Drone Pop #2 having been given a full vinyl release so far. Their next album is to be called Drone Pop #1, and features songs – some of which are re-recorded – from the first CD-R the band released. The record should be available in July through new label Touch Sensitive Records. Watch the video for ‘Idle Hands’ below.
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Covering a pretty broad spectrum of homegrown electronica, The Loud Mouth Collective have released the seventh installment of their compilation. Featuring the return of LM regulars Jon Candi, edit;erase, Intuitive Travels In Sound, Kali, Space Travelers, Plastic Rhythm and Haüer, the fifteen-track release also features tracks from newcomers Sun Mo, Mangetout, Kevin Aiken, Kubo, Basement Garcia, PolyGlove and Happiness Cage. The Loud Mouth Collective will team up with Bodytonic on March 21 to launch the compilation at Dublin’s Twisted Pepper. The night will include a live set by Warp’s Rustie and Costello, as well as DJ sets from Mangetour, Lui…
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Alternative singer-songwriter Naoise Roo unveiled yesterday – International Women’s Day – ‘For You’, the darkly atmospheric new single to be taken from her upcoming debut album, Lilith. Having debuted only last summer with powerful alt. rock free-download single, ‘Oh Son‘, Roo’s fire has lit up the local scene impressively quickly, with Lilith set for release on April 27 through Irish alternative & experimental label Little L Records. With only the layered-yet-stripped sound of ‘For You’ to go by, the album’s genre-spanning promises of ambient electronica, indie rock and burlesque could well show Lilith to be one of the great Irish breakthrough albums of 2015. Certainly this early on, her output is…
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Beyond running Dublin’s newest record shop, Little Gem, or performing as part of I Heart The Monster Hero and GODHATESDISCO, Andy Walsh has been concocting his own solo sonic wizardry as White Sage. Evoking the likes of Kraftwerk, Cluster and Harmonia, his superb debut EP, Way Beyond Our Means, is a self-proclaimed “sonic exploration of thought, emotion, dreams and imaginings through melody, countermelody and rhythms created using conventional and unconventional recording techniques.” Released via Little Gem Records on March 20, the EP – performed and recorded entirely by Andy Walsh between November 2013 and June 2014 – was layered using an early 20th century Ritzmar…
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With many more acts still to be announced, the main wave of acts set to play this year’s Electric Picnic has been revealed. Featuring headliners Florence & The Machine and Underworld, the likes of Ride, Jurassic 5, Battles, Low, Django Django, Metz, Future Islands, The War and Drugs and more will all make an appearance. Check out the current line-up below and go here to buy tickets.
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A heaving, cosmically-inclined beast and no mistake, Heavy Electricity, the debut album by Dublin noiseniks No Spill Blood is currently streaming via the Sargent House Soundcloud. Without further ado, we highly recommend that you listen to said psychotic masterclass – set for official release on March 10 – below.
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Having renamed themselves as the (assumingly) similarly Sonic Youth-inspired Evvol, the Berlin-based trio once known as Kool Thing have re-emerged with the bold, blippy and rather quite brilliant ‘Your Love’. The track is taken from their forthcoming album, Eternalism, which is released on May 18. We’re very much looking forward to getting our eager mitts on that.
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Recorded and engineered by Solar Bears‘ Rian Trench at Meadow Studios, Co. Wicklow last year, Dublin quartet Alarmist have unveiled ‘Morning, Kepler’, the lead single from their forthcoming debut album. A vibrant, suitably sun-kissed instrumental effort for the first day of Spring, the track weaves a sublime patterns over almost five minutes, leaving one with an even stronger impression that Alarmist remain one of the country’s most forward-thinking and distinctive outfits. The follow up to 2013’s Pal Magnet EP, the band’s forthcoming album is expected to drop in the Autumn. With a Belfast date on the cards, check out Alarmist’s forthcoming tour dates…
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Set to take place at T13 in Belfast’s Titanic Quarter on Saturday, May 30, the first wave of details for the conference end of the inaugural AVA Festival has been revealed. With talks, panel discussions and workshops set to feature throughout the day, Keynote speakers will feature DJ Nu-Mark of Jurassic 5 and Adam Smith, long-term AV collaborator with The Chemical Brothers. Industry leaders and key partners including Ashley Howard of Hospital Records, the Vice President of Beatport, Terry Weerasinghe, Paul Hamil AKA Psycatron and more will make an appearance. Go here to read details of the acts performing at…