• Irish Tracks of the Week – 10th March

    March 10, 2023 - By 

    It’s been another stacked seven days on the new Irish music front. Here’s the best tracks of the week, from Lunch Machine, Problem Patterns, Brigid Mae Power, girlfriend., The Mary Wallopers and more Lunch Machine – Pipedream Graveyard Problem Patterns – Who Do We Not Save? Chubby Cat – Big Dog Barking Brigid Mae Power – Dream From The Deep Well girlfriend. – Trust Trust by girlfriend. The Mary Wallopers – Building Up and Tearing England Down New Jackson – Sanyo Shinkansen New Jackson – Sanyo Shinkansen (+ ELLLL & Lumigraph Rmxs) by Apartment Records Kneecap – It’s Been Ages Michael…

  • Video Premiere: Caoilian Sherlock – Candidate

    March 6, 2023 - By 

    It’s mind-melting to think it’s been nine whole years since we featured Caoilian Sherlock as part of our Track Record feature. As well as pushing forward as frontman of indie-psych foursome The Shaker Hymn, the Cork musician has also carved out a distinctive path under his own name. On singles like ‘Sucker For Love,’ and last year’s four-track EP Big Child, Sherlock’s alternative folk pop has burrowed deep, authentic and earworming. Just last month, Sherlock returned with arguably his finest single to date ‘Candidate’. Produced and mixed by Brendan Fennessy, and featuring Shane Murphy on drums (with additional drums by…

  • Monday Mixtape: YARD

    March 6, 2023 - By 

    It’s been a very promising few weeks for Dublin electro noise quartet YARD. Off the back of supporting both Shame and Scalping, and ahead of dropping their new single ‘Ecdysis’ (feat. YinYang) next month, they select some of the tracks that have influenced their emphatic craft Dan Mogwai – Remurdered This track takes a simple idea and slowly progresses it into what is arguably one of the best instrumental transitions from Mogwai. Great synth lines and bass, a recurring guitar riff over the top and a heavy beat to tie it all together. A great example of the interesting possibilities that can…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – March 3rd

    March 3, 2023 - By 

    It’s Bandcamp Friday once again, and it’s been yet another stacked week for Irish releases. Dig into the best of them featuring Lankum, Aoife Nessa Frances, Gareth Quinn Redmond, Conor Mason, Hands Up Who Wants To Die and more Lankum – The New York Trader False Lankum by Lankum Aoife Nessa Frances – Automatic Love Automatic Love by Aoife Nessa Frances Gareth Quinn Redmond – Ar Ais Aris Ar Ais Arís by Gareth Quinn Redmond Hands Up Who Wants To Die – Nil All HANDS UP WHO WANTS TO DIE – Nil all by FONORADAR brawni – Amber Brawni –…

  • Track Record: Gareth Quinn Redmond

    March 2, 2023 - By 

    Ahead of the release of his album Ar Ais Aris this week, Dublin ambient musician Gareth Quinn Redmond selects the records that have left a lasting impression on his life from Myles Manley to Hiroshi Yoshimura. Photos by Leah Carroll Fleet Foxes – Crack Up I adore Fleet Foxes, their first two albums will always hold a special place in my heart and after a seven-year hiatus they somehow came back with an album that was somehow better than its predecessors. Crack Up is a masterpiece, the experimental elements, the string arrangements and vocal performances from Robin Pecknold. From beginning till end…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 17th February

    February 17, 2023 - By 

    It’s been another stacked week for Irish music. Here’s the best singles and albums released over the last seven days, featuring Lemonade Shoelace, New Pagans, Iona Zajac, Caoilian Sherlock, Alpha Chrome Yayo, The Wood Burning Savages and more Lemonade Shoelace – Hopscotch In The Sky Alpha Chrome Yayo – All Aboard All Aboard by Alpha Chrome Yayo ​ Iona Zajac – Rubbish Jubilee Caoilian Sherlock – Candidate Candidate by Caoilian Sherlock The Wood Burning Savages – Hand to Mouth Hand to Mouth by The Wood Burning Savages Cobra Truth – Two Lovely Little Pets Henry Likely – Handover Sloucho – Everything/Readymade…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 10th February

    February 10, 2023 - By 

    Here’s the very best music released across the island this week, featuring Lisa O’Neill, Gilla Band, Chalk, Erica Cody, Badhands and more Lisa O’Neill – All Of This Is Chance All Of This Is Chance by Lisa O’Neill Gilla Band – Sports Day Pôt-pot – A4 A4 by pôt-pot Erica Cody – Cry Baby Chalk – Static Badhands – Movie Nights Derek Ellard and The Future Business – Three Sheets To The Wind Neosupervital – Back To What

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 3rd February

    February 3, 2023 - By 

    On this, the first Bandcamp Friday of 2023, delve into the very best Irish releases of the week, featuring Lankum, M(h)aol, Pretty Happy, Elaine Howley, White Sage, Gurriers, Trá Pháidín, Swimmers Jackson and more M(h)aol – Attachment Styles Attachment Styles by M(h)aol Lankum – Go Dig My Grave Pretty Happy – Conn Boxing White Sage – Car Park Space Jazz Car Park Space Jazz by White Sage Gurriers – Approachable Banrion – Dare to Crush dare to crush by banríon Swimmers Jackson – Stripped Away Stripped Away (Radio Edit) by Swimmers Jackson Elaine Howley – Mark It X Daniel Luke –…

  • The ddr. Radio Logs. Entry #1: Why Radio?

    February 2, 2023 - By 

    In the first of a new monthly series by residents of Dublin Digital Radio, exploring their practice and the craft of radio-making, ddr. co-founder and Time Slip host Seán Finnan asks: “Why radio?” As of this month, Dublin Digital Radio is starting a new column in The Thin Air. Each month, the radio logs will focus on a different resident who contributes to the ever-expanding range of music and sound that has found a home on the station’s stream. Our approach to the column will aim to be as varied as the attitudes to radiomaking found on our platform; residents,…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 27th January

    January 27, 2023 - By 

    Taking in every corner of the island, here’s the very best tracks of the week from This Ship Argo, Perlee, Meltybrains, Myles McCormack, Ailsha and more This Ship Argo – Flowers, Sparks, Fireworks Flowers, Sparks, Fireworks by This Ship Argo Perlee – Lampshade Meltybrains? – You Myles McCormack – To Better All Things To Better All Things by Myles McCormack Jam Hades – The Edge Jam Hades · The Edge Of Regret Ailsha – Sucker Stoat – Let’s Be Strangers Seba Safe – Afterlife