Dig into the very best new releases of the week, featuring Adore, Nerves, Mischa and the Bear, Conn Thornton, Foreign Mornings and more. Adore – Sweet Keith Nerves – Don’t Let Go Mischa and The Bear – Even Unto The Next World Conn Thornton – Heaven, I’m In Heaven When Bethesda Lands They'll Throw Us a Parade by Conn Thornton Foreign Mornings – Gone Now Nice Celine – OKAY DUG – Have At It For Those I Love – The Ox / The Afters
This week’s round-up is a trove of only the best new sounds, featuring the feature-length return of space rock magi Wild Rocket, the urgent ‘A Mother’s Heart for Palestine’ by Mothers Against Genocide (feat. Mary Black, Róisín El Cherif and more), and essential new cuts from Adamh, Garrett Laurie, Niall McDowell, Hurling, Mother of Pearl and more. Also in the mix: the incredible Ambient Harvest, the sixth compilation from Department of Energy – a sprawling ode to Ireland’s high summer, sun gods, scythes, and all. Wild Rocket – Rocket Sweat Lodge Rocket Sweat Lodge by WILD ROCKET Mothers Against Genocide…
Released last Friday, The Sky Was a Mouth Again marks the second installment in Diet Of Worms’ ongoing exploration of ‘Louie Louie’ as a vessel for dissent. A year after Hunger Is Violence, the Dublin cassette label and publisher returns with a deeper, more unruly dive, gathering artists like Richard Dawson, Charles Hayward of This Heat, Iceage’s Elias Rønnenfelt, Junior Brother, and Valentina Magaletti to tear the song apart & reassemble it in solidarity with Palestine. Below, Gavin Duffy unpacks the intent and atmosphere behind the project. The Sky Was A Mouth Again by Various Artists Few songs have endured,…
Sounds from a Safe Harbour has always operated with a different frequency, tuning in to depth, community and the unexpected. Two months on from dropping this year’s line-up – featuring the likes of Jon Hopkins & S. Carey, Efterklang, Beth Orton, Lisa Hannigan, Villagers, and Rhiannon Giddens – organisers have now revealed its equally impressive film programme. Expanding the festival’s signature emphasis on ritual and resonance,, this year’s strand blends music documentaries, premieres and artist Q&As into a cinematic programme as carefully assembled as the live schedule itself. Taking over The Arc Cinema, Triskel Christchurch and Cork Opera House, the…
Fate has forced our hand: we’re declaring today Irish Music Christmas. Unwrap brand new music from The Mary Wallopers, Junior Brother, pôt-pot, God Knows, Mícheál Keating, CMAT, SexyTadhg, For Those I Love, OG Cunt & The 1240 and much more – including The Sky Was a Mouth Again, the absolutely essential new compilation from Diet of Worms. Following 2024’s Hunger Is Violence, Irish imprint Diet of Worms returns with The Sky Was a Mouth Again, a feral, genre-leaping collection of radical reworks of Richard Berry’s 1955 classic ‘Louie Louie’. Featuring experimental artists from Ireland and beyond, this compilation spans drone,…
Following April’s scene-setting lead single ‘Beatha,’ ‘In the Beat’ marks the second transmission from Still a Day, the upcoming fourth studio album from Kildare-born, Dublin-based singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Eithne Ní Chatháin, aka Inni-K. Set for release this Autumn via Green Willow Records, it’s a record already shaping up to be her most creatively expansive and emotionally attuned work to date. If ‘Beatha’ offered a sublime glimpse into that journey, In the Beat is a deepening; a rare-as-hen’s-teeth kind of deliverance consigned to song. Softly incandescent and sorcerously assured, In the Beat finds Ní Chatháin at her most nuanced and…
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…
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…
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…
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…