Palehound – Black Friday
July 9th, 2019 | by Justin McDaid
With a warm, longing ode to a friend, Palehound’s third record opens with the kind of astutely observed, compassionately wrought …
Album Reviews
Bill Callahan – Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest
July 5th, 2019 | by Cathal McBride
From his extremely ramshackle 1990 debut Sewn to the Sky up until 2013’s far more polished Dream River, Bill Callahan …
The Divine Comedy – Office Politics
June 28th, 2019 | by Sean Kennedy
Neil Hannon has always been, one thinks rather consciously, something of an anachronism in contemporary pop – an urbane, somewhat …
Julia Shapiro – Perfect Version
June 20th, 2019 | by Mitchell Goudie
Perfect Version finds Julia Shapiro wrangling with the idea of the self at a tumultuous time in her life, cataloguing …
Cate Le Bon – Reward
June 8th, 2019 | by Maija Makela
The songs on Cate Le Bon’s fifth album, Reward, came about as the result of time spent in a cottage …
In Their Thousands – Acrasia
June 7th, 2019 | by Caolan Coleman
Donegal’s In Their Thousands are no overnight story, it’s fair to say: brothers Aidan and Declan McClafferty have been playing …
Junior Brother – Pull The Right Rope
May 29th, 2019 | by Colin Gannon
Imagine Joanna Newsom had gorged on grainy VHS tapes of Richie Kavanagh instead of the modernist compositions of Ruth Crawford …
Fixity – No Man Can Tell
May 27th, 2019 | by Ryan O'Neill
Cork has fostered a healthy collaborative atmosphere among its musical populace in the last number of years, with an …
Bitflower Bb – Mastalgia
May 24th, 2019 | by Maija Makela
The word “Mastalgia” is a medical term referring to the heavy, dull tight breast pain commonly experienced by most women, …
The National – I Am Easy To Find
May 23rd, 2019 | by Andrea Cleary
In recent years, The National have shifted towards a communal approach in music making, altering their compositional practices to be …
