• Fantasy 12: A Fantastical Trip Into Iconic Album Artwork

    October 14, 2016 - By 

    Presented by Hen’s Teeth Prints, This Greedy Pig and Choice Cuts, Fantasy 12 will present a “fantastical trip into iconic album artwork” at The Copper House on Dublin’s Synge Street from October 13-16. Featuring a decidedly dope roster of respected and lauded labels, artists and designers from the world including Nick Gazin (Run The Jewels), Shit Robot (DFA), Lemi Ghariokwu (Fela Kuti), Glen E. Friendman (Beastie Boys), Ian Anderson (Warp) and Tony Hung (Blur), Fantasy 12 asks record labels a simple question: “If there were no boundaries and you could release an album from an iconic artist (past or present), what…

  • Watch: Burnt Out – Joyrider

    October 14, 2016 - By 

    Back in March we featured North Dublin multi-disciplinary project Burnt Out in our physical magazine, discussing their origins, class disparity, misrepresentation and their stellar debut single ‘Dear James‘. The piece presented the project as one of the country’s most authentic and unequivocal artistic propositions and a a group of firmly rooted in working class society, raging against the distinct under-appreciation of their culture. Six months on, they have resurfaced ‘Joyrider’, a masterfully cathartic audio-visual statement confronting the “systematic concept of masculinity with regard to violence and emotions, aiming to highlight the destructive nature masculine expectation has on the adolescent and those surrounding”. Burnt Out…

  • Album Premiere: Katie Kim – Salt

    October 14, 2016 - By 

    Whether you look to Ireland or further afield, few artists cut such a compelling and fiercely individual figure as Waterford’s Katie Sullivan AKA Katie Kim. Four years on from the magisterial, slowcore-tinged indie-folk of her second album Cover and Flood, the Dublin-based musician has returned with its extraordinary, fully-realised follow-up, Salt. A nine-track ode to the unknowable sway of memory, transience, indestructible love, the spectre of loss & longing and what Kafka called the Indestructible, sparsely plucked guitars, disembodied piano shapes, washes of droned ambience and quietly-woven percussion plait to propel Katie Kim’s wonderfully esoteric, deeply-felt inner narratives to a realm of almost meditative poise and intent. Recorded with John…

  • Gigs of the Week: No Spill Blood, Katie Kim, Slomatics, Holy Fuck, Sister Ghost

    October 13, 2016 - By 

    From the bone-crushing mighty of Slomatics to the propulsive lo-fi electronica of Holy Fuck, this week’s Thin Air Gigs of the Week is a distinctly darker, heavier affair to last week’s guide. Anyone who tries to contest that’s a bad thing is wrong, my friend. Very wrong. No Spill Blood, Robocobra Quartet, Thumper Bello Bar, Dublin Friday, October 14 Trust be told, you’ll struggle to find a stronger three-band Irish bill than Sargent House’s No Spill Blood, Belfast’s singular Robocobra Quartet and Dublin noise-pop Thumper. With that in mind, Bello Bar is most definitely the place to be in Dublin on Friday night. Slomatics…

  • The Thin Air Tracks of the Week: Cloud Nothings, Æ MAK, Foxygen, Irma Vep etc.

    October 13, 2016 - By 

    While it’s been significantly quieter on the home front compared to last week, the last few days have yielded some serious gems here in Ireland and much further afield. Here’s The Thin Air’s Tracks of the Week, featuring Cloud Nothings, Æ MAK, Myronik and more. Irma Vep – Still Sorry Sublime psych-pop from the Manchester-based DIY artist. AE MAK – I Can Feel It In My Bones One of Ireland most singular acts return with an almighty earwormer. Cloud Nothings – Modern Act Here, the new Cloud Nothings (pictured above) sounds very Cloud Nothings-y. This a good thing. Buckles n’ Son…

  • For Love Nor Money: An Interview with Gross Net

    October 13, 2016 - By 

    Ahead of the release of his stellar debut LP via Touch Sensitive in November, Girls Names’ guitarist Philip Quinn AKA Gross Net talks to Brian Coney about money, sanity, impetus, authenticity and the fact “we’re all fucked”. Photos by Diarmuid Kennedy You release Quantitative Easing, on November 25. It follows on from Outstanding Debt, your collection of re-commissioned tracks from aborted releases. Once again, money is the pervading theme here. Cast your mind back ten years ago, did you ever envisage it taking such a hold over your art? Well… ten years ago releasing music, or making a slight bit of income…

  • Winter Party ’16

    October 13, 2016 - By 

    Rightly billed as @the biggest electronic party of the year@, Winter Party ’16 will take over Dublin’s 3Arena this Halloween Bank Holiday Sunday (October 30) with Sven Hath, Hot Since 82, a DJ Set from Jon Hopkins, Matador (Live), Dan Stritch, Skream and more. Promising a full sound, lighting and special FX production package, it’s set to be a 9 hour throwdown followed by a city takeover with the following afterparties running to late> Knee Deep in Dublin: Hot Since 82 and Emanuel Satie @ Button Factory Skream (All Night Long) @ Opium Rooms Leon Vynehall @ Wah Wah Club…

  • The Altered Hours Announce Irish Fall Tour

    October 10, 2016 - By 

    Having released and widely toured their debut album In Heat Not Sorry at the start of the year, Cork psych five-piece – and arguably the country’s very best live proposition right now – The Altered Hours have announced a four-date Irish fall tour. To coincide with the dates, IHNS has been re-pressed and will be available on limited edition orange vinyl via Art For Blind Records, Penske Recordings and at all upcoming gigs. Check out the dates – and a tour promo video – below. November 18: Lavery’s, Belfast December 3:  Kasbah Social Club, Limerick December 10: The Kino, Cork December 15: The Grand Social, Dublin…

  • Watch: Buckles n’ Son – Pancake Paradise

    October 8, 2016 - By 

    A self-proclaimed weird hip-hop duo, Dublin’s Conor Buckley and Shawn Mkandala AKA Buckles n’ Son caught our attention with their superb cover of Thundercat’s ‘Them Changes’ back in May. With its wonderfully warped melange of hip-hop beats, woozy synths, blips, beeps, bizarro lyrics and soulful/psycho vocal zig-zagging, the multi-instrumentalist pair have returned with new single,  ‘Pancake Paradise’. Watch its video – directed by Alex Harrison and featuring animation/co-direction from Kav – below. ‘Pancake Paradise’ is taken from Buckles n’ Son’s forthcoming five-track EP, Demo, which is launched via Clockwork on Friday (October 14) at Dublin’s Wigwam.