• Irish Tracks of the Week – 18th July

    July 18, 2025 - By 

    Another fully stacked week. Here’s our pick of the best new Irish music, featuring fresh cuts from Rún, Patrick Kelleher, The Redneck Manifesto, Bricknasty, Iona Zajac, Data.Soul, Our Krypton Son, Exhalers, Tebi Rex’s curtain call, Kormac & Katie Kim’s new collaboration, an essential Luxury / Feral Torch split — and the title track from President Michael D. Higgins’ debut spoken word album. Michael D. Higgins & Myles O’Reilly – Against All Certainty Rún – Strike It Iona Zajac – Anton Patrick Kelleher – Solar Wind Solar Wind by Patrick Kelleher The Redneck Manifesto – Off The Hook Grushy by The…

  • Premiere: Our Krypton Son – Blue Skies Over Curlew

    July 17, 2025 - By 

    If you’ve spent any time with The Thin Air over the past decade and a bit, chances are you’ll be familiar with our long-standing appreciation of Derry artist Chris McConaghy, better known as Our Krypton Son. Since the release of his self-titled debut back in 2012 – a record that remains one of the most quietly devastating and fully-formed debut albums to ever emerge from the North –  McConaghy has continued to carve out a singular path. With Fleas & Diamonds and Modern Ruins, he didn’t just build on that early promise: he expanded it into something deeper and more…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 11th July

    July 11, 2025 - By 

    We gently implore you to check out Poor Creature’s highly-anticipated debut album All Smiles, remixes of ØXN’s Cruel Mother by DROKK and Ben Frost, the latest single from NewDad’s just-announced second LP, essential new NewDad, Talos & Olafur Arnalds, Fierce Shook and more. Poor Creature – All Smiles Tonight All Smiles Tonight by Poor Creature ØXN – Cruel Mother Remixes ØXN – Cruel Mother by ØXN Hamer Place – All That I Knew Was Blue All That I Knew Was Blue by Hamer Place NewDad – Rooibos Talos and Ólafur Arnalds – A Dawning Fierce Shook – Up and Down…

  • The Thin Air Podcast: Laurie Shaw

    July 10, 2025 - By 

    In this episode, the final in the series, we meet Laurie Shaw. Laurie’s been producing albums at a prolific rate for many many years and in this interview, we talked about the 2022 release Sceptre, focusing on the album’s lead single ‘Captain’s Log’. A loose, swashbuckling song, ‘Captain’s Log’ gave us an opportunity to chat about Laurie’s approach to DIY recording, how he visualises his albums, and when all’s said and done – trying not to be worried about it too much. You can support Laurie’s music here: https://laurieshawofficial.bandcamp.com/ Tracklisting: 1. Captain’s Log 2. S Club Party (by S Club…

  • The Thin Air Podcast: Philip Christie (The Bonk)

    July 4, 2025 - By 

    In this episode, we talk to Philip Christie of The Bonk about their song ‘Future 87’. First released in May 2022 and featured on their excellent LP – and our album of 2023 – Greater Than Or Equal To The Bonk, we’ll hear about how the song evolved from a jam committed to a 4-Track Tape in 2017, as well as looking at the limitations and creative decisions that shaped the recording. You can support The Bonk’s music here: https://thebonk.bandcamp.com/ Tracklisting: 1. Future 87 2. Think (by James Brown) 3. Crazy He Calls Me (by Billie Holiday) 4. Thick Lines…

  • Common Threads Announces 2025 Line-Up and Dates

    July 2, 2025 - By 

    Across the island, we’re absolutely spoiled for world-beating festivals that marry place with purpose. From the Atlantic coast to deep city venues, Ireland continues to conjure immersive events that defy template. Common Threads, returning to the Burren this October, is once again throwing its hat into the ring with something quietly radical. Now in its third year, the festival is a three-day trail of music, art and discovery set in the singular surroundings of North Clare’s Burren. Running from 10th-12th October, it brings together a wide-ranging cast including Martin Hayes, Morgana, Daithí, RÓIS, Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Lullahush, Bantum, Aindrias…

  • Video Premiere: Deadman’s Ghost – Chthonic Currents

    July 2, 2025 - By 

    It’s been a little while since we last heard from Deadman’s Ghost – the boundary-dissolving project of Belfast sound artist Jason Mills – but his return is nothing short of spellbinding. Having released some masterfully shapeshifting LPs, among them Hypocratical Oath, Saccadic Rhythms, The Broken Zoetrope and Cerebral Frontier, Mills has long operated in his own slipstream, merging avant-garde electronics, drone, folk instrumentation and ambient textures into work that feels truly scopic and deeply uncanny. Now, he re-emerges with A Votive Offering, a potent new album on Cruel Nature Records (out 22nd September on vinyl, cassette, and digital). It’s a collection…

  • Turnstile Set for National Stadium Show

    June 30, 2025 - By 

    Undisputed good band of the moment, Turnstile bring their Never Enough tour to the National Stadium in Dublin on Halloween night. Off the back of playing a phenomenal rise off the back of their fourth album of the same – notwithstanding a stand-out set at this year’s Glastonbury at the weekend – the Baltimore hardcore heroes play the show with support from High Vis on Friday, 31st October. Tickets priced €39.20-€49.20 and go on sale this Friday, 4th July at 10AM.