• Irish Tracks of the Week – 29th October

    October 29, 2021 - By 

    Good songs. Great songs. Almost certainly the very best of them released in the last week, including CMAT, Fixity, Denise Chaila, Erica Cody, Laurie Shaw, Malaki & Tolü Makay, M(h)aol, MuRli feat. Gemma Dunleavy, Roe & Ciaran Lavery and more. Denise Chaila feat. Murli – Energy Fixity – Fixity 7 FIXITY 7 by Fixity NewDad – Ladybird MuRli feat. Gemma Dunleavy – Odyssey M(h)aol – No One Ever Talks To Us Eoin Dolan – Mirror Liver Mirror Liver LP by Eoin Dolan CMAT – No More Virgos Erica Cody – Love & Light EP Various Artists – TENEMENTS TENEMENTS – Various…

  • CMAT Announces Irish Dates & Debut Album, Releases ‘No More Virgos’

    October 27, 2021 - By 

    The day is here at last: CMAT has announced details of her debut album. Having swiftly established herself as short of a revelation over the last couple of years, the Dublin-based artist will release If My Wife New I’d Be Dead via AWAL Recordings on February 25th, 2022. Including previously-released singles including ‘I Wanna Be a Cowboy, Baby!’ and ‘I Don’t Really Care For You,’ news of the 12-track album comes accompanied by the release of new single ‘No More Virgos’. In textbook CMAT fashion, it’s forward-pushing, earworming pop at its very best. “I’m the kind of girl who dates the same person…

  • Watch: M(h)aol – No One Ever Talks To Us

    October 27, 2021 - By 

    Year in, year out, the imminence of Samhain tends to bring about some … varying seasonal content. Thankfully, there are always exceptions to that rule. Taken from their forthcoming debut EP, Gender Studies, the video for ‘No One Ever Talks To Us’ by M(h)aol depicts women in scenes of horror, from Barbara Creed’s The Monstrous Feminine and Megan Fox’s Jennifer’s Body, to Julia Kristeva’s Powers of Horror. But it’s far from a kneejerk tie-in to mark the time of the year from the band, who are based between Dublin, Cork, London and Bristol. A fraught meld of buzz-saw textures, bobbing rhythms and Róisín Nic…

  • Monday Mixtape: Odd Morris

    October 25, 2021 - By 

    Taking in Radiohead, Billie Eilish, Miles Davis and more, Daragh Griffin from fast-rising Dublin quartet Odd Morris gives us a guided tour to the songs that have influenced the band’s upcoming EP, Cityscape The Ballet. Cityscape The Ballet is out on October 27th Jamie T – If You Got The Money I used to play this at house parties if someone threw me a guitar. I learned to play guitar when I was 8, but only began to sing when I was 19 or so. When I could sing and play this tune it was an “I’m able to do this…

  • Premiere: Ordnance Survey – Vico Road, July 1984

    October 19, 2021 - By 

    As one of the island’s most forward-pushing electronic propositions, Neil O’Connor has long intrigued and challenged as an artist over the years. It’s something that comes into sharp focus in his guise as Ordnance Survey. Next month, O’Connor unveils Field Work, a new LP via Scintilla Recordings. Produced mostly at his home in Drumcondra, Dublin, the album was born out of the use of field recordings made in and around the capital, as well as clips from television archives, the Dart, bicycles and vocal samples from Kerry 40 years ago. A simmering blend of understated synth, samples, piano and found sound,…

  • Watch: The Altered Hours – Thistle

    October 19, 2021 - By 

    Over the last couple of weeks, Cork’s finest the Altered Hours have been conjuring up their singular magic, night after night, in support of Fontaines D.C. at shows the UK. As an act that has commanded our attention since 2013, it’s been second-hand thrilling hearing high praise for the five-piece in their element. Ahead of a few more weeks zig-zagging across the UK and Ireland (including a Thin Air show at the Black Box with Documenta on November 27th, don’t you know?) the band have unveiled the video for their stellar new single, ‘Thistle’. Taken from their forthcoming second studio album,…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – October 15th

    October 15, 2021 - By 

    The good and the great just keep on coming. Here’s the very best Irish releases of the week, featuring Group Zero, Maria Kelly, Fixity, Brigid Mae Power, Thumper, Dani Larkin, Sprints and more. Group Zero – We Need Water Fixity – Homeworld Brigid Mae Power – Mother In the Sky Maria Kelly – The Sum of the In-between The Sum of the In-between by Maria Kelly Dani Larkin – Bloodthirsty Anthony Byrne – Chasing Sprints – Modern Job smallmint – where we all end up in the end where we all end up in the end by smallmint THUMPER –…

  • Monday Mixtape: Windings

    October 18, 2021 - By 

    Spanning Tom Waits, Powpig, Girlfriend, Kurt Vile and beyond, Steve Ryan and Patrick O’Brien from well-loved Limerick five-piece Windings put their heads together for this week’s Monday Mixtape. Windings release their new album, Focus on the Past 5, via Out on a Limb on November 12 Steve The Bad Plus – Anthem For The Earnest I’ve always had an awareness of The Bad Plus over the years, but I kind of had them pigeonholed as “the jazz band that cover indie rock songs”. I totally unexpectedly got to see them play live 10 years ago in Sicily, on our honeymoon…

  • Cate Le Bon Set For Dublin and Belfast Shows

    October 12, 2021 - By 

    Cate Le Bon will play two Irish shows next year. Supported by Mega Bog on both dates, the Welsh avant-pop singer-songwriter will play Belfast’s Empire Music Hall on Friday, March 18th and Dublin’s National Concert Hall on Saturday, March 19th. On sale this Friday, October 15th from 10am, tickets cost £24.00 and €28.00 respectively. On 4th February, 2022, Le Bon releases her sixth studio album, Pompeii, via Mexican Summer. Watch the video for lead single ‘Running Away’ below. Photo by H. Hawkline

  • Black Country, New Road To Play Dublin

    October 12, 2021 - By 

    Black Country, New Road will play Dublin next year. In support of their upcoming second album, Ants From Up There, acclaimed London septet will stop off at Dublin’s 3Olympia on 11th April 2022 as part of a UK and Irish tour. Tickets cost €24 and go on sale on Friday, 22nd October. Listen to band’s new single, ‘Chaos Space Marine’ below. Revisit our review of the band’s debut album, For the first time, here.