Twin sister duo Heathers have released an official video for their latest synth-pop single ‘Call Home’ created and filmed by Crooked Gentlemen, featuring plenty of beautiful Irish scenery to compliment their luscious harmonies. Heathers play St.John’s Priory in Kilkenny on July 23. Buy tickets here.
Having previously been featured as one of our 15 for ’15 in our magazine over a year ago, visceral Dublin punk group New Gods have emerged from their self imposed silence to release their new single Thrilled By Death, accompanied by a video created by Fh’yll at Moonbase Orlok. Watch as a band of skeletons get thrashed on beer with a suitably scuzzy VHS artifact effect. newgodsofpunk.bandcamp.com
Few Irish bands manage to marry throwback and contemporary quite so convincingly as Cork five-piece The Shaker Hymn. Another earworming effort once more confirming the band’s ear for cunning composition and a killer chorus, their new single ‘Another One of You’ “reflects a deep romanticism often attributed to Dublin, but hidden away in beautiful Cork.” Curious words at a first glance but just one listen to their new single reveals the inner workings of those reflections on personal placement and identity in clear, sublime fashion. ‘Another One of You’ is the third track to be taken from the band’s second album,…
Recorded in an old mill in Kilkenny, a wooden cabin in Carlow and a Georgian basement in Dublin over two very cold winters, Water House is the third album by Dublin artist Rory Grubb. Debuting Grubb’s much-admired creation, the Electric Ceramophone (a huge percussion instrument made from tuned clay pots) the release is a genre-warping, lo-fi gem evoking the likes of Beat Happening, The Microphones and Jeffrey Lewis. Largely opting for sampler keyboards and custom-made instruments throughout the release, Grubb has concocted another singular effort bursting with melody and bold experimentalism. Grubb launches Water House at Dublin’s Bello Bar on Friday night with support from Ross…
Comprised of members of Sea Pinks, Logikparty, Girls Names and September Girls, Irish post-punk supergroup-of-sorts Cruising reared their scuzzy little head back in November 2013 with an early version of ‘You Made Me Do That‘ (it kicked ass – still does). Having thoroughly cemented that promise with their self-titled EP back in August last year, the band have re-emerged with ‘My Twin Sister’, a propulsive new effort that is quintessentially Cruising at its core, not least in its a locked-in rhythm section and straight-up punk strut. Stream/buy the track via Bandcamp below. My Twin Sister by CRUISING
Arguably the country’s leading celebration of homegrown, independent music, Hard Working Class Heroes will return to Dublin from October 6-8. With the likes of Hare Squead, Saint Sister and Rusangano Family standing out last year, the festival have made its annual call to the country’s musicians, bands and singer-songwriters to apply to play this year’s showcase. You can apply via HWCH’s Breaking Tunes site; simply go here and click the ‘BANDS APPLY HERE’ button. The closing date for applications is July 22. Early bird tickets to Hard Working Class Heroes 2016 are priced at €35 via DICE until August 10, after which tickets will…
Eight years on from their last show in the legendary Galway venue, it’s been announced that experimental rock powerhouse Battles will return to play Roisin Dubh on Monday, August 15. Having released their critically acclaimed third studio album La Di Da Di back in September last year via Warp Records, the New York band played a typically emphatic show at Dublin’s Button Factory back in March (check out our review/gallery here). Tickets for the band’s Roisin Dubh show go on sale this Friday at 9am priced €30/28.
Surrealism is no unbeaten path for Girl Band, and the latest video from the Dublin noise-rock darlings, as usual directed by long-time collaborator Bob Gallagher, takes matters in a much more grimly funny direction. Set in a security line, somewhere, someplace, the video for ‘In Plastic’ mirrors in Gallagher’s inimitable manner the current paranoia around borders, travel, and security, as things quickly unravel for our nameless protagonist. Speaking with Spin mag in the States, Gallagher expands on its themes: “the video is obviously totally ridiculous in many ways, but it touches on themes of surveillance, paranoia, and how arbitrary the…
Led by former Electric Soft Parade/Brakes musical polymath Thomas White, The Fiction Aisle are a Brighton-based musical collective whose second album, Fuschia Days, establishes them as a singular alt-pop force in the making. Spanning seven tracks, the album – which we’re pleased to premiere here – is a remarkably immersive release, striking a keen, almost meditatively restrained balanced between ambient, dream-pop and drone in the vein of Robert Wyatt, Broadcast and Flaming Lips‘ more symphonic efforts. With White’s monophonic Oberheim OB-1 synth at the heart of the mesmeric soundtrack-like quality of the album, it’s a wistful, beautifully-rendered journey traversing everything from true love, ecstasy and death to depression,…
Set to launch at Dublin’s Bello Bar on July 16 , ‘Letting It Go’ sees Dublin electronic duo Ross Turner and Cian Murphy AKA I Am The Cosmos re-capture the magic that set them apart on their 2013 debut album, Monochrome. Wilfully sparse to begin, the track unwinds in typically commanding fashion, each cyclical re-iteration yielding new shades of propulsive, synth-laden magic from the pair. Set for release via Happy Valley on July 1, there’s an almost mechanical simplicity to the track that proves delightfully deceptive with repeated listens. Mastered by Simon Cullen, the single comes with b-side Taciturning On You and a re-imagining of the…