• Video Premiere: PrYmary Colours – Lighter Side of Day

    December 22, 2017 - By 

    Christmas is nearly upon us but some are still dreaming of the Summer, particularly Cayisha Graham and Daire Gohery of electro-pop duo PrYmary Colours as they mark the release of their Lighter Side of Day EP with a video for the 90s inspired lead track of the same name. It was shot by Sean Gallagher at Fuinneamh festival in Loughcrew, Co. Meath and Casa Bacardi at Electric Picnic this year, capturing those hedonistic festival vibes completely. As a bonus, the band are offering three tracks Lighter Side of Day, Sunscape and Can’t Do Nothing At All for free as a Christmas present. Click here to download until January 1st.

  • The Thin Air’s Essential 25 Films of 2017

    December 22, 2017 - By 

    End of year rankings obscure as much as they reveal, so we’re keeping it loose for the film countdown. Each of our regular film writers submitted picks for the year’s best in cinema, as well as a ‘wildcard’ pick that deserved more attention. The resulting list of 25 films embraces the art-house and the blockbuster, showcasing stunning work from Ireland, the UK, America and elsewhere, across a healthy range of genres and styles. The films are unnumbered and presented in random order. This rundown only begins to capture the breadth of cinematic experiences offered by the year; please take it as an…

  • The Thin Air’s Top 30 Irish Albums of 2017

    December 21, 2017 - By 

    Ahead of revealing our top twenty EPs of the year, we’re pleased to present the big one: our Top 30 Irish Albums of the Year. Was it a tricky to compile? Very. It’s never easy but it’s always a pleasure. We say it every year but it’s undeniable: the last twelve months have been nothing short of revelatory, and we fully believe the following list of LPs shine a beaming floodlight on what the island of Ireland has to offer, from transcendent traditional revivalism and world-beating hip-hop to obliterating noise and Motorik-driven kosmische worship. 30. Eoin Dolan – UBIQUE UBIQUE…

  • The Thin Air’s Top 100 Irish Tracks of 2017 (50-1)

    December 8, 2017 - By 

    Boy, was this hard. To say this top 100 countdown could’ve very easily been a top 250 wouldn’t be anything resembling an overstatement. From start to finish, 2017 will go down as one of the most compelling years in Irish music in recent memory. Your move, 2018. Go here for 100-51. 50. Wood Burning Savages – Living Hell 49. Maija Sofia – Persephone 48. Group Zero – Pyramid of Light/Love And The Present 47. Ryan Vail & Jealous of the Birds – Love is a Crow 46. Floor Staff – A Love Sublime 45. Super Silly – Not Ready to…

  • The Thin Air’s Top 100 Irish Tracks of 2017 (100-51)

    December 7, 2017 - By 

    Ah, End of Year lists. Where would we be without you? Although the whole process can often skim close to the torturous, few things in this life rival the sheer satisfaction of sifting through a full year of music in order to attempt to carve out some semblance of quality. And whilst descending, close-ended lists such as these are almost exclusively arbitrary exercises nullified by good ol’ subjectivity, there’s something intrinsically important about trying to take a broad snapshot of music released in the twelve months just gone. And make no mistake, it’s been a pretty remarkable year for Irish…

  • Watch: The Elephant Room – Naive Green

    November 26, 2017 - By 

    Dublin trio The Elephant Room have shared a new track ‘Naive Green’. Having formed in January of this year, the band comprised of singer and guitarist Frank Shortle, bassist Shane Martin and drummer Ian Hand have already a string of singles under their belt and have been honing a sound that will resonate with anyone with a penchant for 90s indie rock and the lo-fi charm of slacker styles. Earlier singles ‘Brisco’ and ‘Ashes’ showed us a band with a precocious knack for a hook early in their nascence as a group. We previously drew comparisons between them and the likes of Sparklehorse and Wilco and…

  • Stream: The 202s – Soul Don’t Boogie

    November 25, 2017 - By 

    Dublin’s The 202s have shared another single taken of their forthcoming second album From When The Future Was Yet To Hurt Us, set for release on 2 February 2018 via Difference/Repetition.  The trio of Mike Glennon, Steve Melling and Barry Smullen follow this years’ Up In Thin Air EP with more ventures into their new-wave, post-punk and krautrock influences. Along with its first single ‘Dash For The Exit (Real Love Doesn’t Lie)’, ‘Soul Don’t Boogie’ sees the group continuing to embrace grit, motorik groove and grizzly melodies. It’s done them a lot of favours, and finds them in territory they are more comfortable in than ever before, giving them chances…

  • Video Premiere: Trick Mist – Fraction

    November 11, 2017 - By 

    On last Thursday’s edition of our show on Dublin Digital Radio we debuted the new single from an artist we’ve become rather fond of in the past two years. Gavin Murray AKA Trick Mist‘s blend of skilled songwriting, atmospheric electronics and percussion, and looped violins make him a solo artist whose output has only improved since we first came across it. Now, the newly Cork-based artist who had lived in Manchester for the past number of years, delivers his most mature work to date in the form of ‘Fraction’, a track in two halves that blends echoed vocals and layers of violin and…

  • Stream: Robert John Ardiff – Lying in the Gutter

    November 1, 2017 - By 

    Being the big fans of Come On Live Long that we are, it’s with great pleasure that we share the latest single from guitarist and vocalist Robert John Ardiff‘s forthcoming solo album, Between The Bed and Room.  Following the brittle and really rather magnificent ‘Paint Your Nails’, ‘Lying in the Gutter’ is an even more delicate affair. The rich, vast textures of Come On Live Long’s sound are stripped away to leave Ardiff exposed and reliant on a self-trust and confidence in compositional simplicity. Luckily, in the singles preceding this and once again here, there seems to be no shortage of that. Seems we…

  • Metropolis 2017

    October 31, 2017 - By 

    Metropolis 2017 kicks off on a chillingly Irish Saturday afternoon, with only the bricks and mortar of the RDS and surrounding bodies to fend off the cold. Being one of the country’s few festivals taking place at this time of year, expectations are set on a show that can begin to bridge the gap between the shimmering of Body and Soul and the last trumpets of Electric Picnic. Tara Stewart gets the ball rolling on the industries stage (a slight change of programme) and plays to a largely vacant room. Her last track, a brilliant mix of Bollywood and Jay-Z…