• Stream: GODHATESDISCO – Incredible Technology

    June 23, 2015 - By 

    Melding estranged spoken word meets kosmiche-tinged instrumental psych, ‘Incredible Technology’ by GODHATESDISCO gives a subtly glorious glimmer of insight of what to expect from the Dublin duo’s forthcoming album, Great Radio. Grasping for unseen lucidity, marrying malevolent electronic dissonance with pulsating bass and Motorik groove, the track blossoms and simmers before expiring in a haze of noise and the fractured words of an anonymous female voice. Great Radio is released via Little Gem Records on July 24. Go here to help fund the record.

  • Stream: Terriers – Believing The Crystal

    June 22, 2015 - By 

    Taken from their Octagon EP – released via Dutch imprint Rhythm Nation – Dublin duo Peter Ward and Ronan Downing AKA Terriers have mustered some real magic on their unravelling, seven-minute techno chugger ‘Believing The Crystal’. Evoking tripped-out, somnambulist forays in some non-descript, sweaty-walled club of yore,  the track bears the sonic fruits of the pair recently being under the learned guide of Levon Vincent for three months in Berlin. A sound move, we say. Photo by Sarah Doyle

  • Premiere: My Tribe Your Tribe – Will To Survive

    June 17, 2015 - By 

    Set to play Body & Soul at the weekend, Dublin duo My Tribe Your Tribe really caught our attention back in February with the dreamy, subtly cascading alt-electro of ‘Only a Horizon’. Going several steps further, their new single, ‘Will To Survive’, was obviously written with those imminent summer festival sets in mind. Danceable in all the first places, it looks both inward and outward, evoking the vocals of Ben Gibbard, and a musical marriage between Caribou and early Arcade Fire. ‘Will To Survive’ – produced by James Darkin at Temple Lane Studio – will be officially released on November 6.

  • EP Stream: Rosseau – Rosseau

    June 12, 2015 - By 

    Having delivered a convincing set supporting SOAK at Belfast’s Empire on Wednesday night, new-fangled Derry duo Colm Hinds and Daniel Kerr AKA Rosseau have hit the ground running with their new six-track, self-titled debut EP. Calling to mind the likes of the Appleseed Cast and Codeine, the release traverses moments real, beguiling fragility, striking a nice balance between sparse emo, imaginative musicianship and slowcore-esque passages. According to their Bandcamp page, Rosseau “was formed in the late summer of 2014 following some shitty circumstances.” Rosseau EP by Rosseau

  • Premiere: Atriums – Down By The Beeches

    June 10, 2015 - By 

    We’re not quite sure what it is but there’s mos definitely something about the sea that seems to inexplicably lure so many Irish musicians and their accompanying video directors. Of course, we’re not complaining – particularly if the video turns out to be anything as exquisite as the one for ‘Down By The Beeches’ by Dublin singer-songwiter Gavin Farrell AKA Atriums. An accompaniment of vast, powerful, wonderfully-paced force, directed by James Lawes of Bare Films, you can watch it via Vimeo below. Check out our Inbound piece on Atriums in the second issue of our physical magazine online here.  

  • Stream: Slow Riot – City of Culture

    June 10, 2015 - By 

    Something of a statement of intent, the bio section of Limerick trio Slow Riot’s Facebook page reads, “Slow Riot came together make something altogether different. A soundtrack to a existential noir novel. Something you might here on the local radio station on a drive through Twin Peaks? Either way its all parts dark, brooding and core rattling.” Wearing their patent noise and post-punk influences on their collective sleeve, the band’s debut single, ‘City of Culture’, comes roaring out of the traps and conjures the likes of Art Brut, Wire, Interpol, Sonic Youth and Girl Band at different points throughout its three-and-half-minutes. Promising…

  • Watch: The Emerald Armada – This House

    June 10, 2015 - By 

    Hands down one of the country’s very best live acts, Northern Irish alt-folk trouveurs The Emerald Armada have spent the last few years building a loyal, suitably armada-like fanbase. With a new EP set for release in November – the highly-anticipated follow-up to last year’s sublime Five Beating Hearts EP – the Neil Allen-fronted five-piece have unveiled the video for their new single, ‘This House’. Betraying a real sense of pop-centric progression from the band, the video for the song – recorded by Start Together’s Rocky O’Reilly – was directed and edited by Wilson Lynn.  

  • Watch: MOLARBEAR – Highclops

    June 10, 2015 - By 

    A year on from grabbing our attention with their debut single, ‘Fierce Brosnan’, back in August last year, Belfast-based riffmasters general MOLARBEAR have unleashed the equal parts lethal and livid ‘Highclops’. Comprised of members from Jackalfeud and the Big Grizzly, the band recorded the six-minute track at Belfast’s Bearcat Studios. Its video, for all its inventiveness, borders on the nightmare-inducing. Nightmares you want to have and tell everyone about. Not that they’ll listen, but you’ll still tell them. Anyway. Watch the video for ‘Highclops’ below.

  • Watch: August Wells – Here In The Wild

    June 4, 2015 - By 

    Hands down one of our favourite songs of the year, ‘Here In The Wild’ by the Ken Griffin-fronted August Wells has been brought to life with a superb, rather touching video courtesy of Sean Nagin. Summoning the pensive, reflective chamber pop of Richard Hawley and the gloriously elongated vocals of early Ian McCullough, the song was recently released via Cork’s FIFA Records. Speaking to our writer Eoin Murray last month, Griffin – previously of Dublin indie rock band Rollerskate Skinny – said, “I chatted with Eddie (Kiely) from the label and I found his attitude very refreshing, and he seemed to genuinely love the…

  • Stream: Tomorrows – The Circle

    June 3, 2015 - By 

    With the turn of summer rather precariously around the corner, Dublin band Tomorrows have offered up a sun-kissed, melancholy-tinged one-track soundtrack in the form of ‘The Circle’. Conjuring the likes of the Spinto Band and Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, the track follows on very nicely from the equally impressive ‘Another Life’ and ‘Free’, going that bit further and hitting home with its simple, warped pop wanderlust. We’re big fans.