• Irish Tracks of the Week – April 23

    April 23, 2021 - By 

    It’s been yet another banner week for Irish music. Dig into the best new sounds of the past seven days below, featuring new sounds from Ships, The Altered Hours, Villagers, TOYGIRL, Kojaque, Smoothboi Ezra and more The Altered Hours – All Amnesia All Amnesia by The Altered Hours Villagers – The First Day Ships – One to the Ward TOYGIRL – Water Kojaque – Town’s Dead SORBET – Only For The Young feat. Arborist BANYAH – Black Fires Pretty Happy – Sea Sea Sea Smoothboi Ezra – Stuck Seba Safe – Map Runner Amerik – Bouquet EP Bouquet by Amerik…

  • Monday Mixtape: Cryan

    April 19, 2021 - By 

    Belfast sad country duo Ciara Nic An Rí and Ryan Fitzsimmons AKA Cryan select and wax lyrical about some of their favourite tracks, including Patsy Cline, The Flying Burrito Brothers and more. Ryan The Good Gollies – Rosemary You can find it on Mashed Potato Records Volume 1 which was recorded in a makeshift, analogue-based recording studio set up by the Mississippi River in a structure that was more a shack than a house, but unmistakably a home. Both volumes of it remain a huge inspiration, but the Sapphic undertones of this track make it stand out above the other…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – April 16

    April 16, 2021 - By 

    Here are the very best Irish tracks of the week, featuring Fears, Ra Gerra, KK Lewis, Joshua Burnside, Ferals, Strange Boy, The Bonk, Local Boy, Xona, Orla Gartland and more. The Bonk – Chore Loops EP Chore Loops by The Bonk Fears – Fabric Oíche by Fears Ra Gerra – Pressure Strange Boy – Waiting KK Lewis – First Bus Home Ferals – A Collection of Unreleased Works EP Joshua Burnside – Higher Places Local Boy – Thoughts Comrade Hat – Old Gods, Vol. 1 Old Gods, Vol. 1 by Comrade Hat Punching Peaches – Wristwitch Xona – Waiting Chxmist…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – April 9

    April 9, 2021 - By 

    It’s been another stellar week for new releases in every corner of the island. Delve into the best of the lot, featuring Katie Kim & Sean Mac Erlaine, D. McCabe, Beoga, Maria Kelly, TAYNE, Sinéad O’Brien, Elkin, James Bruce and more Katie Kim & Sean Mac Erlaine – Empire One Empire One by Katie Kim & Seán Mac Erlaine D. McCabe – The One They Couldn’t Fix The One They Couldn’t Fix by D. McCabe Maria Kelly – Martha Martha by Maria Kelly Sinéad O’Brien – Kid Stuff Beoga – Breathe EP James Bruce – Elephant Elephant by James Bruce…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – April 2nd

    April 2, 2021 - By 

    Happy Bandcamp Friday AKA the only day that means anything anymore. There’s a lot of great new Irish music out there this week, so we’ve whittled it all down ten of the best, featuring M.CAMBRIDGE, Cryan, Laurie Shaw, licehead, Comrade Hat, Amerik w/ Travi the Native & more. M.CAMBRIDGE – Land Songs: The Ballad of Sok le Boy EP Land Songs: The Ballad of Sok le Boy by M.CAMBRIDGE licehead – Beta Male Fever (Pilot Episode) BETA MALE FEVER! – Reality Climax (pilot episode -21 mins) by Licehead Cormorant Tree Oh – Zip Issues Cryan – Rodeo Queen Rodeo Queen…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – March 26th

    March 26, 2021 - By 

    Beating out the rest of 2021 so far in terms of both quality and quantity, check out the very best Irish tracks of the week, featuring Lighght, Soda Blonde, Poor Petal, SORBET, HAVVK, Æ MAK, Lilac, Ghostking Is Dead, For Those I Love, Gender Chores, Cussen, CMAT, This Ship Argo, Saint Sister, Dunx, Travi The Native and K3:LU. Ghostking Is Dead – I Don’t Need Help I Don’t Need Help by Ghostking Is Dead Æ MAK – New Friend Lighght – there are parts of my soul i don’t dare speak Holy Endings by Lighght Gnarkats – All The Time…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – March 19th

    March 19, 2021 - By 

    Here’s the very best Irish tracks of the week, featuring M(h)aol, VerseChorusVerse, New Pagans, Local Boy, Zizou, The Disco Participation Matrix, Anna’s Anchor, Twin Diver and Loner Deluxe. M(h)aol – Asking For It Asking For It by M(h)aol VerseChorusVerse – Be Proud New Pagans – Harbour Local Boy – Al Bundy Zizou – After It’s Done zizou band · After It’s Done Final The Disco Participation Matrix – High Rise (Kevin Blake Remix) Rave Gravely Stem Remixes by Kevin Blake, Molotov Ape, Spectac (Front-End Synthetics), The Person Anna’s Anchor – Shannon Bridge Twin Diver – Television Loner Deluxe – Tin…

  • Acid Granny announce series of “Radio Paddy” releases

    March 15, 2021 - By 

    Acid Granny, the trolly-toting dealers of improvised electronic punk and abstract audio art, have something new in store for the week of St Patrick’s Day: a fake “Paddy-centric” radio station.  Radio Paddy, which will be released episodically throughout the week, is a frequency scrambling pseudo-celebration of “Irishness” at its most self-referential and insincere. Across three 10-30 minute instalments, the crew stitches together music and spoken segments from a countrywide cast of contributors, flipping Paddywhackery on its head and milking it for all its worth. The result is, in part, a tongue-in-cheek examination of the post-colonial stereotypes perpetuated by things like…

  • Inbound: SORBET

    March 12, 2021 - By 

    Over the last few years, you might have spotted Chris Ryan’s name on the credits of any number of Ireland’s most essential musical releases, in just about any capacity. Producer of work alongside the likes of Just Mustard, Careerist & the rising NewDad, and the beating heart of jazz-punk ensemble Robocobra Quartet – most recently namechecked on The Guardian in the same breath as Slint & Tortoise as an influence on ‘post-genre’ outfit Black Country, New Road. Last year, under the SORBET pseudonym, he released the Life Variations EP via Bureau B – home of experimental & electronic pioneers like Faust & Cluster – and…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – March 12th

    March 12, 2021 - By 

    It’s been another stellar week for new releases in every corner of the island. Delve into the best of the lot, featuring Maria Somerville, Sorbet x Maija Sofia, Invaderband, New Pagans, Amerik x Little Rivers, A Ritual Sea and more. Maria Somerville – Seabird SORBET – I Heard His Scythe feat. Maija Sofia Invaderband – I Won’t Remember You I Won’t Remember You by Invaderband New Pagans – Harbour A Ritual Sea – Desire Lines Neptune M. – AA AA by Neptune M. Sprints – Swimming Amerik x Little Rivers – Apricot Captain A & Ciara Ní É Queen Bonobo…