Any song with a main riff that evokes ‘Blindness’ by The Fall and an outro reminiscent of latter-day Tera Melos can only be a good thing in our books. Where are we going with this, you wonder? Wonder no more: Abandcalledboy have unveiled the video for their new single ‘LA Dick’, the suitably spazzed-out follow-up to their double single ‘George Best In Show/Paul Simon’s Daily Routine’, released back in March. Watch the video for the single – created by Odhrain Soanes and Andrew Grafton – below.
Neil Hannon’s The Divine Comedy will be the next recipient of the Oh Yeah Legend Award at Belfast’s Mandela Hall on November 14. Recognising “the exceptional contribution of a musician or a music industry figure from Northern Ireland” the award ceremony will take place at the next NI Music Prize, which takes place as part of a wider programme, Sound of Belfast, in November. Speaking of the award, Hannon said, “I am amazed and humbled to be receiving this honour. There is nothing more gratifying than recognition from your homeland, and I’m very much looking forward to playing some songs…
Irish emigre Shane Harrington, formerly of Limrock math-punks We Come in Pieces, has been keeping himself busy since heading to New York a few years back. Aside from math band A Year and Change and solo electronic project OST, he’s been brooding on noise side-project Love Addict. It pulls precisely zero punches. Self-recorded and self-performed, it draws on a rich vein of sludge and math-rock angularity. Love Addict is the noise-rock experiment of New York based musician Shane Harrington (OST, A Year And Change, We Come In Pieces). Script For A Man was recorded, mixed and performed by Shane in its…
With just over a month to go, Body & Soul have announced the line-up for this year’s sold out Electric Picnic. LA Priest, Hundred Waters, Meltybrains?, EMBRZ, Ho99o9 Natalie Press, Young Wonder and Everything Shook are amongst the many, many acts set to perform across Body and Soul’s two institution-like stages (Main Stage and Earthship stage) at the festival. Check out the full line-up above.
Having all but soiled ourselves listening to and shouting about its second track, ‘Funderland’, yesterday, we’re rather happy to present an exclusive first listen to The Grand Stretch, the debut EP by Popical Island’s latest – and perhaps some day greatest – outfit, Shrug Life. Life sucks and we all know it, but not all of us (in fact, very few of us) have the creative or whimsical tools at our disposal to express said utter despair and pointlessness via inescapably deadly, stupidly catchy, lo-fi indie rock. God knows we’d all love to, but who’s got the time to give…
Not merely the finest Irish radio programme, An Taobh Tuathail on RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta is nothing short of a consistently impeccable underground music institution. Presented by Cian Ó Cíobháin, the show has proven an indispensable go-to criterion for fresh, unusual and glorious sounds for innumerable listeners both across the country and throughout the world since starting way back in 1999. Eight years on from the release of its first collection, the seventh volume of ATT’s free, all-but annual compilation – featuring tracks by the likes of Orcas, Loner Deluxe, Kode9, Colleen, Rival Consoles, Nils Frahm, Sufjan Stevens and Mica Levi – is a perfect place to…
Dublin-based bastion of jangle and virulent lo-fidelity, Popical Island’s latest “ingenues” Shrug Life have gotten off to a ridiculously catchy start with the release of tracks ‘Chewing Gum Breakfast’ and ‘Funderland’. Set to feature on the band’s debut EP, The Grand Stretch (which we’ll be streaming next week), the latter song was released earlier today and is for our money the finest (our at least our favourite) Popical Island track ever. Stick that on our tombstone; we shall forever stand by it. Not terrified of mimes? Watch the video for ‘Funderland’ below. Go here for the Facebook page event page…
Twenty-One Minutes Of Music is a collaboration between Thomas Parkes (The Jimmy Cake) and contemporary composer Sean L. Clancy, which was recorded during a two day residency at the Moog Sound Lab at Birmingham City University. The aim of the collaboration was to develop new compositions using a large selection of Moog synthesisers which included the legendary Moog System 55 modular synth. With a combination of improvisation and chance techniques they recorded around seven hours of material which will eventually be whittled down to an album’s worth of material in the coming months. The piece in this video is a…
One of our Acts to Watch in 2014, Kilkenny producer Pete Lawlor AKA Replete recently delivered two stellar sets in Belfast and Dublin, in Aether & Echo and the new-fangled Wiley Fox respectively. Having released stuff from the likes of Nphonix, Reagan Grey and Sly-One over the last couple of years, Devon imprint Shifting Peaks – purveyors of half decent bass, house and stuff” – have featured Lawlor in their new five-year retrospective compilation, Bass and Superstructure. A mere flicker at five minutes long, the galvanic ‘Day Off’ emerges from sublime washes of synth to form a fleshed-out gem of finespun, glistening House.
When he’s not playing with Patrick Kelleher, Catscars (feat. Robyn Bromfield of Everything Shook’s) and Tenro AKA Marc Aubele of Nanu Nanu and Bell X1, Dublin cross-genre, experimental musician Brian Conniffe is concocting his own warped, psych-soaked brand of electronic noise. According to Conniffe, his new track ‘Mercy Mine’ is a “surreal, ghostly and strangely misshapen take on elements of contemporary electronic pop fused in deep darkness with a distinctly vintage warped VHS video, producing a luminous and poisonous, kinetic and frenetic result.” Took the words right out of our mouth. Delve in below. Photo by Maricarmen Copca