• Video Premiere: Two Nice Catholic Boys – Never Wonder

    November 7, 2023 - By 

    Formed in 2020 as a collaborative music project between writer and illustrator Ruairí McCann and writer and filmmaker Maximilien Luc Proctor, Two Nice Catholic Boys smudged the lines between avant-garde pop and spectral ambience on two LPs, Cities in Stitches and Seconds, last year. It’s a wonderfully rewarding arc that the McCann and Proctor – who are also both co-editors of the film and music website Ultra Dogme – pare back with aplomb on their label debut, Three Cheers for the Distant Observer. Out on 21st November via one of the island’s finest indie imprints, Bluestack Records, the four-track that sees…

  • Music Trail Announced for Others Voices Dingle

    November 6, 2023 - By 

    Other Voices have announced the line-up for this year’s Dingle Distillery Music Trail. Returning across 1-3rd September, the annual pilgrimage to West Kerry promises another essential weekend of firmly established and fast-rising Irish acts across several venues. With more to be announced, Series 22 of Other Voices Dingle will feature a slew of TTA favourites, including Aoife Wolf (pictured), Chalk, Chubby Cat, Elaine Malone, Joshua Burnside, M(h)aol, Nealo, Winnie Ama, YARD and more. Check out the full first line-up below. Elliott Hughes, managing director of Dingle Distillery, said: “Dingle Distillery is proud to work alongside the cultural icon that is Other…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 3rd November

    November 3, 2023 - By 

    Delve into the very best Irish music of the last seven days from girlfriend., Hilary Woods, HAVVK, Clara Tracey, Acid Granny, Belacqua, Faoi Thalamh Records and more girlfriend – To Be Quiet To Be Quiet by girlfriend. Hilary Woods – Acts of Light Acts of Light by Hilary Woods HAVVK – City Creep Faoi Thalamh Records – From The River To The Sea From the River to the Sea – Various Artists Compilation by Faoi Thalamh Records Clara Tracey – Baby Witch Acid Granny – The Holy Spirit is Coming Inside Me The Holy Spirit is Coming Inside Me by…

  • November Reign: An Interview with Nealo

    November 3, 2023 - By 

    Community, culture and collaboration are the three words that stand proudly at the centre of Nealo’s sophomore album November Medicine. Launching to the world on November 17th 2023, November Medicine features artists ranging from Morgana and Jehnova to Rebel Phoenix and Shiv and touches on themes close to the heart, embracing vulnerability without a hint of discomfort. Following on from his debut album All The Leaves Are Falling, November Medicine delves into the depths of the human experience. The album directly involves the listener with Nealo’s inner world, with carefully chosen voice notes punctuating the album in interludes and emotion…

  • ØXN – CYRM

    November 2, 2023 - By 

    Not content with earning a Mercury Prize nomination for this year’s False Lankum album, Lankum’s Radie Peat returns mere months later with the debut LP by new group ØXN. Originating in a collaboration between Peat and Katie Kim – who is herself coming right off the back of last year’s masterful Hour of the Ox – the pair expanded to a quartet with the addition of Percolator members Ellie Myler and John ‘Spud’ Murphy, the latter already a long-term collaborator of everyone involved as well as being an increasingly in-demand producer further afield. Long awaited since the then-unnamed group performed…