• Irish Tracks of the Week – 31st March

    March 31, 2023 - By 

    Stretching across synth-pop, fuzzed-out riffs, hip-hop, psych and beyond, here’s our selection of the best tracks from every corner of Ireland this week. Everything Shook – Blacking Out Blacking Out by Everything Shook Loud Motive – Money Jealous of the Birds – Morse Code Lemonade Shoelace – I Think My Heart Is Set On You Daniel Luke – Chatterbox 1000 Beasts – Brigitte Bardot Brigitte Bardot by 1000 Beasts Cinder Well – A Scorched Lament Badhands – For A Little While The Wheel by Badhands ZOiD – Internal Space Element Internal Space Element by ZOiD Dutch Schultz – Whose Is…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 24th March

    March 24, 2023 - By 

    Taking in every corner of the island, here’s the very best tracks of the week from Lankum, Chalk, Niall McDowell, The Fae, Krea, The Wood Burning Savages and many more Lankum – False Lankum False Lankum by Lankum Phil Kieran – The Strand Cinema The Strand Cinema by Phil Kieran Chalk – Asking Niall McDowell – I Have Given Up The Wood Burning Savages – Climb The Ladder The Fae – Chloe Gnarkats – Homesick Krea – Don’t Tell Me Seba Safe – On My Way Drew Makes Noise – Lemonade Derek Ellard & The Future Business Model – Electricity…

  • Irish Tracks Of The Week – 17th March

    March 16, 2023 - By 

    Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Here’s the very best music released across the island this week featuring Perlee, Ian Nyquist, Ailbhe Reddy, Uly, JyellowL, Celia and more Perlee – Reckoning Celia – Celia EP 03 Celica EP 03 by Celica Uly – Emperor’s New Groove (for Klara) Ailbhe Reddy – Endless Affair Endless Affair by Ailbhe Reddy Ian Nyquist – Black Earth Cairn BLACK EARTH CAIRN by Ian Nyquist Dashoda – Never Enough JyellowL – La Vie Est Belle XXXX in Stereo (ft. Rory Sweeney) – Second Skin Second Skin (ft. Rory Sweeney) by XXXX In Stereo Reylta – Lucifer’s Love…

  • 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 –…

  • The ddr. Radio Logs. Entry #2: No Tourists

    March 2, 2023 - By 

    In the second installment of the ddr. radio logs,  a new monthly series by residents of Dublin Digital Radio, exploring their practice and the craft of radio-making, Gary Farrelly, one half of The Office of Joint Administrative Intelligence along with Chris Dreier give us an insight into their ever-innovative No Tourist show on ddr The Office of Joint Administrative Intelligence is organised as a para-intelligence agency operating between Brussels and Berlin and next broadcasts on Dublin Digital Radio on Monday 13 March at 6pm Myself and Chris first met at a dinner party in Wuppertal in early 2015. I remember…

  • 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…

  • Process of Becoming: An Interview With New Pagans

    February 28, 2023 - By 

    Ahead of playing Belfast alongside Extravision later this week, Lyndsey McDougall, lead vocalist of fast-rising Belfast five-piece New Pagans chats to Ciara Byrne about process, parenthood and pushing forward at the helm of one of the island’s most dynamic rock bands New Pagans and Extravision play Belfast’s Ulster Sports Club on Thursday, 2nd March. Go here to buy tickets Your wonderful new album Making Circles of Our Own brings to life the inner experiences of being a parent, and the juxtaposition of being a mother in particular while being in a band. What brought you to explore these themes through music? When we wrote…