• Irish Tracks of the Week – 23rd September

    September 23, 2022 - By 

    It’s been another stellar week for Irish music. Dig into the best new sounds of the past seven days below, featuring Elaine Howley, coldcall, Anna B Savage, ROE, Cormorant Tree Oh and more Elaine Howley – Autumn Speak Cormorant Tree Oh – Swoontide Swoontide by Cormorant Tree Oh coldcall – day_01 Anna B Savage – Ghosts ROE – That’s When The Panic Sets In Trick Mist – The Hedge Maze and the Spade The Hedge Maze and The Spade by Trick Mist Talos – Kites Dutch Schultz – Levil9 LØ – Green Out Patrick Kavanagh – Almost Everything… Anna Mieke –…

  • Video Premiere: John Blek feat. Cathy Davey – Lyric & Air

    September 14, 2022 - By 

    Over the last few years, North Cork singer-songwriter John Blek has consistently underscored his rep as one of the island’s most deeply engaging artists. On albums such as 2020’s The Embers and 2016’s Cut The Light, he has offered up carefully-crafted folk majesty of the highest order. It’s something Blek wonderfully doubled down on last year, with the release of ‘Ether & Air,’ the final part in the artist’s Catharsis Project – a four-album exploration into themes of the sea, the earth, the embers, and the air. A year on, Blek returns with arguably his strongest single effort to date, ‘Lyric &…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 9th September

    September 9, 2022 - By 

    Here’s the very best Irish releases of the week, featuring Narolane, Katie Kim, Ciaran Lavery, Aoife Nessa Frances, Grave Goods, Akrobat, Junior Brother and more Narolane – Rent Free Katie Kim – Hour of the Ox Ciaran Lavery – A Confident Woman Grave Goods – Die Akrobat – Basquiat’s Widow Zaska & Melina Malone – Just For One Day Aoife Nessa Frances – This Still Life Junior Brother – Good Friday Kyoto Love Hotel – When Do You Think It Begins EP When Do You Think It Begins (EP) by Kyoto Love Hotel Ben Flavelle-Cobain – electric//emotion electric//emotion by Ben…

  • New Two-Day Event, Haunted Dancehall, Set for Dublin’s National Concert Hall

    September 7, 2022 - By 

    A new two-day event, Haunted Dancehall, is set to take over National Concert Hall next month. Across October 1st-2nd, the event will take place across 5 rooms at the Dublin venue with a host of homegrown and international experimental and electronic artists. As well as Oneohtrix Point Never performing his first Irish show in 11 years, South East London artist Coby Sey, Caterina Barbieri (pictured) making her Irish debut, and the incredible Ana Roxanne, the programme will also feature Lalla Sakini, Elaine Howley, Fears, Blackhaine, Roger Doyle, Frog of Earth and more. Check out the full current line-up for the Foggy Notions event…

  • Track Record: Aoife Wolf

    September 6, 2022 - By 

    Fast-rising Irish psych-folk Aoife Wolf gives a guided tour of the records she can’t live without, featuring My Bloody Valentine, Kate Bush, Grouper, John Martyn and more Photo by Jane Donnelly My Bloody Valentine – Loveless There’s that saying that talking about art is like dancing about architecture. I don’t often feel that I have a lot to say about the music I love but a hell of a lot to feel about it. When I really like a sound I feel like I can’t get close enough to it like I want to drink it or bathe in it,…

  • Inbound: NIMF

    September 6, 2022 - By 

    Last July, we had the joy of premiering ‘Cloudy Dreams,’ a three-minute gem by Arklow’s Aoibhín Redmond aka NIMF. Representing her experiences as an autistic musician, and the need to indulge in her imagination, it married acoustic motifs with found sound and homespun electronica, as well as influences including Kero Kero Bonito. Four months on from that luminous introduction, the sugar-spun DIY pop of ‘Space’ plumbed prismatic new depths. Delving into what Redmond referred to as “the beautiful worlds within our own minds,” which open up “endless possibilities when overwhelmed by the day-to-day,” it was a dreamscape that hit like…

  • Win Rose City Band Tickets & More

    September 5, 2022 - By 

    This week, Ripley Johnson of Moon Duo and Wooden Shjips (not to mention NTS) returns to Ireland for a brace of shows with his latest project, Rose City Band. As well as stopping off Dún Laoghaire Folk Festival on Friday, 9th September, the band’s first-rate cosmic country will take over Belfast’s Black Box the night before, Thursday, 8th September. File this one under fully unmissable. To mark the occasion, Belfast’s finest gig promoters Strange Victory and the legendary Thrill Jockey Records have teamed up to offer one Thin Air reader a chance to win a Rose City Band-themed prize package. As well as pair of…

  • Dublin Digital Radio Announce Alternating Current 2022

    August 29, 2022 - By 

    Dublin Digital Radio have announced the return of its annual celebration of sound artists, electronic experimenters and DJs, Alternating Current. Coming a year from its exceptional inaugural outing, the second iteration of the festival will return to the airwaves and Dublin city this October. Beginning on the 28th, the programme will feature specially commissioned radiowork by artist and resident of the station, Aisling-Ór Ní Aodha, which will be broadcast on ddr. On Saturday, 29th, the event will once again take over the Depot at The Complex in Dublin City. Divided into two concerts – Deep Listening and Beyond the Human – the likes of BABY NITS,…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – August 26th

    August 26, 2022 - By 

    Dig into the very best Irish releases of the week, featuring Uly, The Mary Wallopers, Lõwli, Niall McDowell, Seamus O’Muineachain and more. The Mary Wallopers – Frost Is All Over Niall McDowell – It Was an Honour To Be Nominated Uly – Fishing Seamus O’Muineachain – Mouth of the Isthmus Lõwli – Otherworld Ways of Seeing – The Other Side Of Summer Anna Mullarkey – Damsha Hall JW Soundworks – Hypoxic Reverie Last Survivor – Midnight Run The Art Crimes Band – Neon Skyline