• Premiere: Gaze Is Ghost – Home

    May 29, 2018 - By 

    Just last week, Northern Irish artist Laura McGarrigle announced that TTA favourite Keith Mannion AKA Slow Place Like Home has officially joined her Gaze Is Ghost project, which also comprises Casey Miller of Zed Penguin. Now, the trio have re-emerged with ‘Home’, the second single to be taken from Gaze Is Ghost’s forthcoming debut album Lapis Cobalt Indigo Blue. A sublimely-crafted four minutes of baroque pop with rich minimalist overtones, it’s a track where McGarrigle’s stunning vocals comes centre-stage. McGarrigle said, “The song is a quiet place on an album that for the most part deals with darker subject matter. When writing…

  • Line-Up Announced For Inaugural Coaster

    May 28, 2018 - By 

    Hosted by Ewen Friers’ CATALAN!, New Pagans (pictured), fast-rising experimental alt-folk artist Joshua Burnside and Belfast dream-pop trio Beauty Sleep are amongst the names set to play the inaugural Coaster in Portrush on July 20. A self-proclaimed “summer gathering on the North Coast celebrating local music” the event will take place at the Atlantic Bar and Babuska. See below for the current line-up (including  The Thin Air DJs) below and go here to buy tickets, which are priced at a very reasonable £11.00 including booking fee.

  • Mac DeMarco Set For Belfast Show

    May 24, 2018 - By 

    Canadian indie rock hero Mac DeMarco will play Belfast’s Limelight 1 on Monday, October 29. Having played Dublin’s Vicar Street back in November last year, it will double up as DeMarco’s debut show in the city. Tickets for the show – which is hosted by Strange Victory – are priced £24.50 and go on sale on Tuesday, October 29. Doors are at 6.30pm.

  • Watch: Our Krypton Son – Falling In Love Is A Suicide Mission

    May 23, 2018 - By 

    Quite possibly the island of Ireland’s finest songwriter, Chris McConaghy AKA Our Krypton Son has returned with new single ‘Falling In Love Is A Suicide Mission’. A carefully-crafted, elegiac peak from his critically-devoured second album Fleas & Diamonds, the single is accompanied with wonderfully minimalist visuals courtesy of Tristian Crowe. Watch the video and have read of an exclusive written accompaniment to the track titled ‘The Old Plymouth’ by McConaghy below. The Old Plymouth Harry Dean Stanton lights a cigarette and stands at the water’s edge. The flickering lights of Dupont tremble in a graveyard of stars. He snorts at…

  • Lauryn Hill Set For Dublin Show

    May 23, 2018 - By 

    As part of a world tour celebrating twenty years of her seminal debut album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Lauryn Hill will play Dublin’s 3Arena on Friday, November 30. Speaking about the tour, Hill said, “This album chronicled an intimate piece of my young existence. It was the summation of most, if not all, of my most hopeful and positive emotions experienced to that date. I loved and believed deeply in my community’s ability to both love and heal itself provided it received the right amount of support and encouragement. Our world today, both complex and changing, is in need…

  • Watch: Brigid Mae Power – I’m Grateful

    May 21, 2018 - By 

    ‘I’m Grateful’ by Galway-based Irish artist Brigid Mae Power is a heart-rending peak from her extraordinary third album, The Two Worlds. Now, the track – which mines a chimera from a well of emotion and intent via minimalist, slowcore-leaning folk – comes accompanied with visuals directed, filmed and edited by Myles O’Reilly of Arbutus Yarns, and features art direction and Super 8 footage by his fellow This Ain’t No Disco collaborator Donal Dineen. Read our review of The Two Worlds here and our recent interview with Brigid Mae Power here.

  • Watch: Glass Wings – For A Little While

    May 17, 2018 - By 

    Glass Wings is the music-making moniker of Belfast-based artist Stephen Jones. Following on from the release of Jana from Barcelona – a carefully-crafted, acclaimed EP released back in May last year – he has recently recorded his forthcoming full-length debut album with Phil D’Alton of Master & Dog. Lead single ‘For A Little While’ set the tone for a body of work exploring personal and societal coming of age in an increasingly uncertain world. Directed, filmed and edited by Josh Brogan, check out the video for the single below.

  • Stream: Oh Joy – Cab Sad

    May 17, 2018 - By 

    We have a lot of time for Dublin indie rock trio Oh Joy here at TTA. They mean it, man. They really mean it. Recorded by Liam Mulvaney at Bow Lane, the brisk, heat-stung ache of new single ‘Cab Sad’ captures that intent, psychic wanderlust and heartbreak across 141 all-too-short seconds. Taken from their forthcoming EP, Good Grief – which is released on June 8 – the song is, as you might gleam from even a cursory listen, “about falling in love and how it can make you feel like a pathetic mess”. Ollie Moyles, Oh Joy lead songwriter wrote the…