M(h)aol – Gender Studies
January 18th, 2022 | by Danny Kilmartin
M(h)aol’s intersectional feminist punk fury first entered public consciousness in 2016 with the release of their debut single ‘Clementine’. The …
Album Reviews
Ordnance Survey – Field Work
December 22nd, 2021 | by Cathal McBride
Outside of his work on keys and percussion for Dublin math-rock heroes The Redneck Manifesto and stints playing with Jape …
Elaine Mai – Home
November 15th, 2021 | by Sophia McDonald
The title of Elaine Mai’s long-awaited debut album, Home, holds a lot of weight. Living through a pandemic changed the …
The Altered Hours – Convertible
November 1st, 2021 | by Cathal McBride
Given that they’ve been releasing music for a full decade now, it’s easy to forget that Cork quintet The Altered …
Deafheaven – Infinite Granite
September 1st, 2021 | by Danny Kilmartin
One could argue that Deafheaven are to so-called “blackgaze” music what the Sex Pistols were to punk rock: they weren’t …
Horsey – Debonair
August 18th, 2021 | by Justin McDaid
It was already evident from their slow drip of sporadic singles over the last five years that Horsey were a …
The Cube of Unknowing – Drowned Zones
August 9th, 2021 | by Pádraic Grant
After tackling small town esoterica and early Irish Christianity, the latest release by Francis Heery, aka The Cube of Unknowing, …
John Francis Flynn – I Would Not Live Always
July 30th, 2021 | by Cathal McBride
While Ireland’s contemporary folk scene continues to go from strength to strength, London label Rough Trade must take some credit …
Eimear Reidy and Natalia Beylis – Whose Woods These Are
July 6th, 2021 | by Eoin Murray
If day trip destinations and social media posts are accepted as a metric, most Irish people view forests as a …
KMRU – Logue
June 29th, 2021 | by Sophia McDonald
Nairobi-born, Berlin-based KMRU’s Logue is a collection of ambient snapshots, compiling previously self-released individual pieces that chart his journey to …
