• Video Premiere: Group Zero – We Need Water

    Last October, Belfast-based musician Cathal Cully, AKA Group Zero, unveiled the sublime Everyone’s Already Come Apart. Released via Touch Sensitive, the five-track album melded muted psychedelia with loose, electronic experimentalism that brightened some brilliant corners. While each track rewarded, ‘We Need Water,’ proved an outright peak. Across six minutes, the subtle interactions between backwashed samples with piano, synth, and muted drum machine patterns burrow deep. Today, we’re pleased to present a first look at Belfast-based artist and filmmaker Benén Dillon’s video for the single. Shot on location in Mayo at the annual cliff-diving competition, it was filmed during the counties’ collective hangover from the All-Ireland…

  • Various Artists – The 343 Vol.1

    Named for Le Manifeste des 343,  a brave act of civil disobedience by French women who dared sign a Simone de Beauvoir penned petition, publicly declaring that they had undergone illegal abortions,  The 343 is a feminist-led, Queer art space that has swiftly become a thriving and vital corner stone of the Belfast music scene. Having  garnered a glowing reputation for its community-driven ethos and unflinching dedication to creating a safe and inclusive space for LGBTQIA artists, The 343 has now put together its first compilation album. The 343 Vol. 1 brings together a vibrant range of experimental artists associated…

  • Watch: Group Zero – Pyramid of Light/Love And The Present

    Girls Names‘ frontman Cathal Cully AKA Group Zero recently dropped one of the Irish albums of the year so far in the form of Structures and Light, a release we said “traversed brittle cold wave gems, pre-dawn electro throwdowns and shivering industrial instrumentalism over ten tracks, each as commanding as the last”. Released via Belfast imprint Touch Sensitive, the album has a new single, ‘Pyramid of Light/Love And The Present’ – a double-sided, softly rapt peak highlight now masterfully bolstered by Dublin-based visual artist Dorje De Burgh’s visual accompaniment. Speaking of the video De Burgh said, “The visual that accompanies ‘Pyramid of…