• Irish Tracks of the Week – 21st April

    April 20, 2023 - By 

    With new EPs and albums from the likes of Arborist, Æ Mak, Perlee, and some incredible new singles from CMAT, Trophy Wife, Banríon and more, get a look at our picks of the week. Arborist – An Endless Sequence of Dead Zeros An Endless Sequence of Dead Zeros by arborist Trophy Wife – Scully Perlee – Speaking From Other Rooms Speaking From Other Rooms by Perlee Robbie Stickland – Bug Under Your Heel Bug Under Your Heel by Robbie Stickland Æ Mak – Berlin Conchúr White – Atonia Banríon – Sugar Water Ailsha – Sleep CMAT – Whatever’s Inconvenient Stephen…

  • Album Premiere: Perlee – Speaking From Other Rooms

    April 21, 2023 - By 

    Four years this October, occasional TTA writer – and acclaimed Irish in her own right – Maija Sofia introduced the sublime dream-pop of Perlee. Comprising Saramai Leech and Cormac O’Keefe, the Navan-bred, Berlin-based duo have since carved out their space via Half Seen Figure and Slow Creature, two EPs distilling their finely-woven dream-pop craft to four each tracks each. Today, the pair underscore the status as one of the country’s most singular talents. Exploring “unconditional love, the banality of a capitalist society, destiny and self-realisation,” Speaking from Other Rooms is a debut LP that feels widescreen and prismatic in equal measure. Featuring highlights including lead single ‘Lampshade’, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs-inspired ‘Reckoning’…

  • The ddr. Radio Logs – Entry #3: No Place Like Drone

    April 19, 2023 - By 

    In the third installment of the ddr. Radio Logs – a monthly series by residents of Dublin Digital Radio, exploring their practice and the craft of radio-making – Droid & Neil Dronovan, hosts of No Place Like Drone, give us the lowdown on their monthly show. Like many a wretched thing, it emerged from the muck of Laois, specifically, from a temporary car park in a field in Stradbally and an impromptu contest to find the best drone-related pun. Or we might rewind ten hours back through time, to the sight of dozens of spangled revellers laid out like wartime…

  • Irish Tour: M(h)aol

    April 17, 2023 - By 

    M(h)aol live at The Loft in Galway with support from Puck and at Cyprus Avenue in Cork with support from I Dreamed I Dream. Photos by Ciaran O Maolain and John Sheehy Roisin Dubh in Galway by Ciaran O Maolain Cyprus Avenue in Cork By John Sheehy

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 14th April

    April 14, 2023 - By 

    From every corner of the island, here’s the very best new music of the week, from Junior Brother, ferna, Thom Southern, Caoilian Sherlock, Kean Kavanagh, Feather Beds and more Junior Brother – Junior Brother’s Favourite Thom Southern – Love Hz Love Hz by THOM SOUTHERN Moot Tapes’ Signs of Life Pt 5 (R Kitt and Richie Kaboogie Signs of life: Part 5 by R. Kitt/ Richie Kaboogie Cobra Truth – Purple Feathers Purple Feathers by Cobra Truth Jinx Lennon – Walk Lightly When The Jug is Full Walk Lightly When The Jug Is Full by Jinx Lennon ferna – understudy…