Palehound – Black Friday
July 9th, 2019 | by Justin McDaid
With a warm, longing ode to a friend, Palehound’s third record opens with the kind of astutely observed, compassionately wrought …
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Marissa Nadler & Stephen Brodsky – Droneflower
May 10th, 2019 | by Justin McDaid
Ethereal gothic folk and experimental post-hardcore are convenient, if broad, brushstrokes to describe the individual styles of Marissa Nadler & …
19 for ’19: Larry
January 30th, 2019 | by Justin McDaid
We continue 19 for ‘19 – our feature looking at nineteen Irish acts that we’re convinced are going places in …
Sun Kil Moon – This Is My Dinner
November 13th, 2018 | by Justin McDaid
Mark Kozelek plays music, eats, and watches boxing matches. This is all that he does. This we learn towards the …
Roger Waters @ 3Arena, Dublin
June 28th, 2018 | by Justin McDaid
A lone figure sits on a sand dune on the domineering backdrop screen, facing the waves as the ambient clamour …
Eleanor Friedberger – Rebound
May 19th, 2018 | by Justin McDaid
In the aftermath of the US elections, Eleanor Friedberger spent some time in Athens with the intention of writing an …
Goat Girl – Goat Girl
April 12th, 2018 | by Justin McDaid
Named in reference to Goat Boy, Bill Hicks’ salacious stage persona, London four-piece Goat Girl give some clue to the …
Explorations in É: An Interview with Dowry
February 21st, 2018 | by Justin McDaid
There is an ambient apposition at work through the debut single from Dowry, the solo moniker of multi-instrumentalist and composer …
Dedekind Cut – Tahoe
February 20th, 2018 | by Justin McDaid
Dedekind Cut is the current pseudonym of Northern California based experimental composer & producer Fred Welton Warmsley III. His 2016 …
Festival Preview: It Takes A Village 2018
January 12th, 2018 | by Justin McDaid
At the final All Tomorrows Parties festival at Pontins Holiday Camp, East Sussex in 2013, one music fan-in-residence jovially likened …
