• Stream: His Father’s Voice – In The Shade

    October 14, 2019 - By 

    Staking their claim as one of the brightest prospects in Irish post-punk & shoegaze with their Context & Perspective EP earlier this year, Limerick’s His Father’s Voice are back with a new single. Written around the same time as their debut EP, the quartet’s A-side goes further down the path trodden down fellow ‘gaze revivalists like DIIV & Cheatahs, without letting the wall of sound envelope what it is – a great pop song that plays on the idea of “how resentment finds room to feed and grow through hiding behind the appearance of a bright and happy exterior”. Meanwhile, B-side ‘Close’ is the kind of miasmic sea of…

  • Dermot Kennedy – Without Fear

    October 9, 2019 - By 

    As Dublin’s Dermot Kennedy releases his debut album, Without Fear, it’s odd to think he’s already been performing to packed-out audiences for two years. For an artist who recently sold out the 5,000-capacity Brixton Academy in London without even having a UK single, and who has collaborated with regular Kanye West producer Mike Dean, you’d almost be forgiven for thinking of an album as an unnecessary afterthought. Nevertheless, Without Fear, released on UK major Island, puts Kennedy’s towering voice on full display with a collection of deeply personal, hip hop-infused pop songs ruminating on heartbreak, hope and healing. While it may be tempting to…

  • Sampling Dog Howls: An interview with ELLLL

    October 8, 2019 - By 

    Cork-born producer and DJ ELLLL creates gravitating music without the gravitas. Armed with samples of Youtube videos and voice recordings from nights out, she weaves music ranging from tactile soundscapes, to airy breaks and propagating percussion. Now based in Berlin, we caught up with ELLLL ahead of her set at Dublin’s Wigwam on Thursday to talk production and the current state of the club scene in Ireland. ELLLL plays Notions at Wigwam, Dublin on October 10th We saw three new EPs from you earlier this year. Febreeze on First Second Label, Confectionary on Glacial Industries, and Glisten on Paralaxe Editions,…

  • Caribou Set For Iveagh Gardens

    October 8, 2019 - By 

    Dan Snaith aka Caribou is set to make his Irish return next year. Doubling up as the first announcement for the series next summer, the Canadian artist will play Iveagh Gardens on Saturday, July 11th. It’s the penultimate date in a string of 2020 dates for Caribou. Tickets go on sale on Friday morning. Stream a new track ‘Home’ below.

  • 65daysofstatic – replicr, 2019

    October 7, 2019 - By 

    65daysofstatic make music that speaks to our most elemental, human concerns. Anxious, urgent and vital, their sound narrows on a space between post-rock, cinematic and electronic worlds. replicr, 2019 arrives as a focused expedition into a dark and uneasy present. On this, their sixth album proper, the band collate their experimental interests – they soundtracked the 2016 videogame No Man’s Sky through algorithmic composition – with the feverish immediacy of their early records. Ultimately, the world of replicr, 2019 is unsettling in its realism. From the opening bars, we’re prepared for a bleak, industrial landscape – one which is built…

  • A4 Sounds Presents: Ten Past Seven & Aonghus McEvoy Trio

    October 7, 2019 - By 

    Sometimes-slinking, sometimes-monolithic, always-dynamic Kerry instrumental trio Ten Past Seven play their first Dublin headline show in a number of years with a performance at gig & art space A4 Sounds this Saturday, October 12. They’ve just recorded their new album at Dublin’s Guerrilla Studios, set for release in 2010, ten years after their last album, Bothar Buí, which featured an appearance from Katie Kim, and remixes by Kevin Blake, Toby Kaar, Molotov Ape & Laura Sheeran. Sharing the bill is Woven Skull member, composer & guitar explorer Aonghus McEvoy‘s trio. Expect hypnotic, deconstructed music rooted in blues, jazz, and the underbelly of primitivism. Have a listen to his work on…

  • Watch: Autre Monde ‘On The Record’

    October 7, 2019 - By 

    Autre Monde have returned with their second new single of the year, ‘On The Record’. Following summer’s ‘Fever In May’, the Dublin supergroup of sorts comprising Padraig Cooney, Paddy Hanna, Eoghan O’Brien and Mark Chester are joined by saxophonist Félim Gormley and guest vocalist Naoise Roo on the typically bockety indie-pop number. Set to appear on the band’s forthcoming LP debut, The Imaginary Museum, the lyrics to ‘On The Record’ confront “the addiction to making pop songs and irresponsibly chasing the perma-receding horizon of professional musicianship”. The Imaginary Museum is slated for release via Strange Brew – also home to…

  • Joker

    October 7, 2019 - By 

    Joker lands in cinemas this week – as heavy with hype as Batman’s toolbelt with gadgets. Not that gadgets and superheroism play a big part in this origin story, which shows the backstory of Batman’s arch-nemesis. Instead, following in the footsteps of the violent adaptations Logan and Deadpool, Joker is a bracingly bleak, gorgeously shot departure from the conventions of the comic book spin-off movie, anchored (if not dominated) by a magnetic central performance from Joaquin Phoenix. The film unfolds in a 1970s-feel Gotham City that’s politically and socially tearing itself apart. (The first evidence of unrest is mounds of uncollected…

  • Soulé @ Lost Lane, Dublin

    October 2, 2019 - By 

    Off the back of a very successful year, young Balbriggan artist Samantha Kay aka Soulé upped her game at the end of September by headlining her own show at one of Dublin’s newest music venues, Lost Lane. Soulé’s music has achieved huge success on Spotify with ‘What Do You Know’ notching 2 million streams to date, and one of her latest tracks ‘Love Tonight’ garnering over 4 million, as well as hitting No.1 on Irish radio charts last May. The electronic pop artist was opened up to a wider audience in April 2019 when she performed ‘Love Tonight’ on the Late…

  • Other Voices Dingle Set To Return for 18th Year

    October 2, 2019 - By 

    Initial details of Other Voices return to Dingle have been announced. Set for its 18th outing, the much-loved Irish music institution will take over the Kerry port town across November 29 to December 1. As well as teaming up with Dingle Gin as the partner for the Music Trail – a dynamic series of gigs at venues across the town throughout the weekend – organisers have also revealed that the distinct ideas steam with OV, Ireland’s Edge, will take place across November 29-30. The Music Trail West, Banter and After Dark are also confirmed with more information to follow over the coming weeks. With 7,000…