• Premiere: No Oil Paintings – What Good Does It Do

    August 20, 2021 - By 

    Off the back of a storming set at Stendhal Festival last weekend, acclaimed Belfast Americana/alt-folk act quartet No Oil Paintings have returned strongest single to date. Capturing the Chris Kelly-fronted foursome at their most emphatic and earworming, ‘What Good Does It Do’ was self-recorded at Half Bap Recording Studios, mixed by Ben McAuley and mastered by Dan Coutant at Sun Room Audio Mastering in New York. Speaking about the track, which is taken from the band’s forthcoming debut album, Kelly said: “The song is a personal admission of the futility of one’s own anger and frustration. An enraged and impassioned plea for better temperament, delivered sonically…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 20th August

    August 20, 2021 - By 

    It’s been another stellar week for new releases in every corner of the island. Delve into the best of the lot, featuring Arvo Party, Villagers, Rosa Zajac & Daragh Lynch, Tolü Makay, Floor Staff, Ward, Erica Cody and more. Photo by Rich Gilligan Arvo Party – The Grand Stretch Corpus II by Arvo Party Villagers – Fever Dreams Rosa Zajac & Daragh Lynch – The Burning of Auchindoun Tolü Makay – Aye No Oil Paintings – What Good Does It Do What Good Does It Do? by No Oil Paintings Orla Gartland – Woman On The Internet Woman on the…

  • Watch: No Oil Paintings – Something Like The Truth

    June 14, 2019 - By 

    Two years on from the release of their well-received second EP, Too Close to the Sun, fast-rising Belfast quartet No Oil Paintings have returned with their most emphatic single to date, ‘Something Like the Truth’. Across four minutes of ascending, fist-clenched intent, the harmony-driven ‘Something Like the Truth’ firmly positions the four-piece as one of Ireland’s finest, most forward-pushing alternative folk outfits. Accompanied by a stellar video courtesy of By Elephant, the single is equal parts equal parts socio-political and earworming gem focusing on the increasing lack of humanity in modern society. Bolstered by the soaring backing vocals courtesy of brothers…

  • Inbound: No Oil Paintings

    June 10, 2019 - By 

    In the latest installment of Inbound, we catch up with Belfast alternative folk band No Oil Paintings ahead of the reason of their new single, ‘Something Like The Truth’. Hi guys. For those new to the band, can you give us a quick intro to the band and how/when you formed? We’re an alternative folk band from Belfast. We formed the summer of 2013 as a bluegrass cover band, had several line-up changes early on from a 3 piece up to a 6 piece, ditched the bluegrass & covers and have been playing original music with this line-up for the…