• Monday Mixtape: Cosha

    May 13, 2024 - By 

    Following the release of her sublime new EP, MurMurs, Wicklow R&B queen Cosha waxes lyrical on her all-time favourite tracks, featuring Björk, Sade, Tirzah, D’Angelo and more Björk – It’s Not Up To You I feel like all stages of my life can be defined by a Björk album; right now Vespertine is resonating with glorious potency. She says all the things I am thinking and feeling in ways so eloquent it’s almost unfair, this is not even her first language! This song particularly stuck with me recently, it’s such an important message that everyone can relate to and that…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 10th May

    May 10, 2024 - By 

    Dive into the very best Irish releases of the week, from David Kitt, Sack, Yinyang, Thom Southern, Jellypelt and more Photo by Neil J Smyth David Kitt – Love Someone Else Sack – Wake Up People Yinyang – Bloodhound/Earthbound Thom Southern – Just Wanna Get To The Ocean EP Jellypelt – Qasm Qasm by Jellypelt Connor McCann – We March Anderson Nightmare – I Don’t Know Anything Lavengro – Stuck In My Head Moon Landing – The Last Two People on Earth

  • Monday Mixtape: Oisin Leech – My Obsession With The Rain

    May 7, 2024 - By 

    Irish songwriter Oisin Leech has just released his debut solo album entitled ‘Cold Sea’. It was produced by Brooklyn artist Steve Gunn in Donegal. It features luminaries Dónal Lunny, M Ward and Tony Garnier. The album has garnered global critical acclaim with Le Monde in France calling it “nine tracks of absolute beauty.” Uncut have called it a “stunning album of clear blue reflection” while Other Voices and MOJO have dubbed it one of the albums of 2024 so far. It’s out now on Tremone Records and Outside Music. Oisin plays his first solo headline Belfast gig at The Deer’s…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 3rd May

    May 3, 2024 - By 

    It’s Bandcamp Friday and we’re spoiled with an absolutely stacked week for Irish music. Delve into new Natalia Beylis, So Cow, Oh Boland, Blue Whale, Alpha Chrome Yayo, Autumns, Ciaran Lavery, Lucy Gaffney and more. Photo by Aislinn McGinn Natalia Beylis – The Roots of the Mountain Ash Embrace the Stone Blue Whale – Orunge So Cow – Affected Services Affected Services EP by So Cow Oh Boland – A Power of Wides Alpha Chrome Yayo – Constant Night Constant Night by Alpha Chrome Yayo Ciaran Lavery – The World Will Put Its Arms Around You Lucy Gaffney – Pitfalls…

  • Open Ear ’24 Preview: A Q+A with Elaine Howley, Andrew Morrison & Dion Doherty

    May 1, 2024 - By 

    It’s just over four weeks until Ireland’s finest festival, Open Ear, returns to Sherkin Island in West Cork From May 31 to June 2, the festival, now in its sixth edition, will be another world-beating celebration of experimental and electronic sounds, from these shores and beyond. As well as unmissable sets by the likes of Hilary Woods, GNOD R&D, da Googie, Lesko, Brian Not Brian and Caskré, this year’s outing doubles as a trove of specially commissioned collaborations between two artists that have not previously worked together. Right up there with the most essential of these is long-time TTA favourite…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 26th April

    April 26, 2024 - By 

    Delve into the very best Irish tracks and albums of the week, featuring the likes of the Personal Vanity Project, Eamon Ivri, pôt-pot, David Kitt, and a special release from Elaine Mai, May Kay and Faye O’Rourke along with the Young People from Aida Refugee Camp in Palestine The Personal Vanity Project – Track 94 David Kitt feat Mick + Annie Tierney – Say No More Elaine Mai, May Kay, Faye O’Rourke, + Young People from Aida Refugee Camp, Palestine – We Are We Are by Elaine Mai pôt-pot – GOING INSANE GOING INSANE by pôt-pot Eoin Dolan – The…

  • Monday Mixtape: PANIKATAX

    April 22, 2024 - By 

    In the latest installment of Monday Mixtape, Rob Walsh and Rían Trench of Dublin noise-punk masters PANIKATAX fly the flag for Underground Resistance, Clarissa Connelly, Big Black, Nitzer Ebb, This Heat and more Rob Walsh Underground Resistance – Final Frontier This track from Mad Mike and Co. at Underground Resistance is a seminal classic. It sparked my love for Detroit techno and continues to have an overwhelming effect on me to this day. The nostalgia level is off the charts on this one, reminding me of growing up in the Irish dance scene, the first place where I felt accepted.…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 19th April

    April 18, 2024 - By 

    From every corner of the island, here’s the most essential new Irish music of the week, featuring Pillow Queens, exmagician, Stray Planets, Winnie Ama, Stomptown Brass and more Pillow Queens – Name Your Sorrow Name Your Sorrow by Pillow Queens exmagician – Sharpen These Stray Planets – I Liked You Better Before Winnie Ama – Tangled Stomptown Brass – It Did Went Down It Did Went Down by Stomptown Brass Colm Warren – Dead Days SLOUCHO feat. EMBY and Zack Oke – Brand New PostLast – Connect 4 Nylophone – More of the Same  

  • Do The Strand: A Catch-Up With Phil Kieran

    April 16, 2024 - By 

    Ahead of its final live performance of The Strand Live this Saturday, 20th April, Belfast producer and techno legend Phil Kieran talks to Andrew Moore about constant evolution, AI’s impact on music and his masterfully ambitious new studio album Photo by Sean McMahon Originally published in the Spring 2023 issue of The Thin Air Buy tickets to The Strand Live, featuring Phil Kieran and the Ulster Orchestra, here It’s 5:32pm on a grey Monday afternoon in Belfast and electronic composer Phil Kieran is quietly working away in his studio. Located in the old Strand Cinema – and the new Strand…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 12th April

    April 12, 2024 - By 

    It’s silly how strong a week it’s been for new Irish sounds. Here’s the very best of them from Shiv, Natalia Beylis, a horror soundtrack by Lankum’s Ian Lynch, His Father’s Voice, MELTS’ second album, Voids, and the latest in Moot Tapes’ single series featuring Flowers at Night Shiv – limerence Cosha – MurMurs Interlude Natalia Beylis – Lost – For Annie (Excerpt) Lost – For Annie by Natalia Beylis Ian Lynch – All You Need Is Death (Original Soundtrack) His Father’s Voice – Arm’s Length Arm's Length by His Father's Voice Moot Tapes Single Series: Flowers at Night –…