Baltimore dream-pop maestros Beach House with support from WUME at Dublin’s Vicar Street. Photos by Niall O’Kelly.
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Dream Wife with support from Dott at Galway’s Roisin Dubh. Photos by Ciaran O’Maolain.
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Hey, what about Superorganism with support from Chai at Dublin’s the Academy? Our photographer Sarah Ryan was down to capture the night.
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Jon Hopkins with support from Barker at Dublin’s Vicar Street. Photos by Niall O’Kelly.
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The masterful Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, with support from Tandem Felix, at Dublin’s Vicar Street. Photos by Aaron Corr.
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Rosie’s tagline describes the film “inspired by too many true stories” of families affected by homelessness. It is an affecting and vital exploration of Ireland’s housing crisis through the concentrated study of one Dublin working class family’s experiences. Unable to find a house after their landlord decides to sell their home, Rosie (Sarah Greene, Black 47, Dublin Oldschool), her partner John Paul (Moe Dunford, Michael Inside) and their four children have been sleeping in hotel rooms unsure where they will be staying next. The children are often late for school because the family have been staying in hotels across county…
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Five years on from the release of their debut album, Nothing Good Gets Away, Dublin indie rock quartet Bouts resurfaced back in May with ‘Face Up’. The lead single from the band’s highly-anticipated second full-length, Flow, frontman Barry Bracken called it “a no-filter, punch the air plea for staring things down and pushing on through.” Second single ‘Love’s Lost Landings (Pt. 1)’ picks up the pace in emphatic fashion. Accompanied with visuals from Paris/London-based French photographer Gwenaëlle Trannoy (link below) it’s an equal parts slick and starry-eyed burst of indie rock from the re-emerging Irish four-piece, centreing around frontman Barry Bracken’s…
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Liam McCartan, AKA Son Zept, releases his debut today, and it’s one of the most exciting, forward-thinking electronic releases to emerge from here in some time. Parallels could be drawn with the likes of Autechre or Aphex Twin from an experimental standpoint, as his Q2B EP reveals McCartan as a true polymath, where concern with ideology is tantamount to creating limitless club potential. Brimming with atmosphere punctuated by his dense ‘polypatternism’, the Q2B EP is a work of deconstructed club music that alludes to the memory-triggering aspects of techno, noise, trance, power-ambient and industrial, often falling into umbrella of electroacoustic composition. We’ll have a full interview with Son Zept in the coming…
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How far would you travel to get away from everyone you love? Would 400,000 kilometres be enough? Damien Chazelle is not a romantic. He is in the habit of taking conventionally uplifting genres — the artist’s journey, the technicolour musical, and now the space race — cutting out their rah-rah hearts, and rebuilding them with a controlled focus on grit, sacrifice and the weight of roads not taken. The spectacular lunar leap that took place in the summer of 1969 is hardwired to be a narrative of triumph. Triumph over gravity, over the odds, and, let’s not forget, over the Soviets, who snatched an…
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Call off the funeral procession: Skelocrats are back. Yes, Popical Island’s finest have returned after four years with one of their strongest single efforts to date, ‘You’ll Never Make Me Talk’. Better yet, the track – which brims with the band’s singular blend of lush baroque and earworming jangle-pop – is the first taste of a new Skelocrats full-length, which is set for release at some point next year. You’ll Never Make Me Talk by Skelocrats