• Buí – Eugene

    November 20, 2017 - By 

    There’s not much to beat a cathartic wallow from an earnest dose of honest-to-goodness indie rock, so if that’s what you’re after, look no further than Eugene, the album that emerges from singer-songwriter Josh Healy, aka Buí. Released on November 27, accompanied with a launch show, the LP was recorded at Earth Music Studios by Vic Bronzini-Fulton, and features appearances from a range of local names like Joel Harkin, and members of Colonel Chocolate & the Justice Triangle. Healy is also, in this project, joined by Eoin Johnson & Rónán McQuillan of his previous project, Josh The Human. Written throughout 2014-2017, Eugene is dripping with emotion, sincerity and character;…

  • Watch: New Pope – Love

    November 13, 2017 - By 

    Back in January, TTA’s Cathal McBride hailed Love, the second album from Galway’s David Boland AKA New Pope. The latest single to be taken from the release, the album’s title track – which McBride said “set out Boland’s stall immediately” – is a pure distillation of what sets Boland apart from many of his tale-wielding peers. Now, comprised of footage from the 1961 anti-drug educational film Seduction of the Innocent, the track comes accompanied by visuals that mirror the trials and tribulations of the L word that Boland tussles with throughout the album. Have a peek below. Photo by Gary McCafferty

  • Premiere: Nocturnes – Humans

    November 8, 2017 - By 

    Conjuring Villagers and the emotive pulse of The Postal Service, ‘Humans’ by Sligo singer-songwriter Pearse McGloughlin AKA Nocturnes is a song that confronts “seeing out the tough times”. The project’s first release since last year’s The Soft Animal – a full-length that yielded the likes of the sublime ‘Whale Song‘ – the song strikes a subtly-affecting midpoint between balmy electronica and somnambulant ambience over four minutes. Better still, the single – which is released via Sligo imprint Bluestack Records on November 16 and launched that night alongside Aural Air and Arch Motors at Dublin’s Workman’s Club – has been released in both English and Irish language versions. A…

  • Watch: Autumns – You’re A Right Useless Cunt Aren’t You

    November 2, 2017 - By 

    What’s your favourite song title of the year? Although we quite like ‘Dishing Out Hadoukens’ by The Tragedy of Dr. Hannigan and ‘Everyone Else (Can Fuck Off)’ by Half Forward Line, ‘You’re A Right Useless Cunt Aren’t You’ by Derry’s Christian Donaghey AKA Autumns is a worthy contender in our eyes. Taken from his recently-released Dyslexia Tracks – a pulverizing, five-track EP that comes hot on the heels of his debut album Suffocating Brothers – it’s an eight-minute traipse of rabid electronica that now comes accompanied by some suitably oppressive visuals from Belfast’s Barry Cullen.

  • Premiere: The Sunshine Factory – Seer

    November 1, 2017 - By 

    Cork, ever Ireland’s unexpected cornerstone of hazy psych, can boast another addition to the canon in the The Sunshine Factory‘s new single ‘Seer’, which we’re delighted to premiere here. This comes alongside the announcement of their debut EP proper, Cruelest Animal, the title track of which was released last year following a string of extremely promising demos and homemade recordings. Towering out of the speaker like some meta-diegetic music recorded live from a cave to soundtrack a climactic David Lynch scene – probably one of Evil Coop walking cooly away from a major explosion – ‘Seer”s measured, primal urgency, gives way to an incredible synth motif – think Vangelis’ Blade Runner Blues – before settling into a mess of rusty, screeching guitars.…

  • Premiere: Elephant – Time Will Tell

    October 31, 2017 - By 

    Dundalk-based artist and multi-instrumentalist Shane Clarke AKA Elephant has returned with one of his strongest single efforts to date, ‘Time Will Tell’. Featuring a wonderfully collaborative DIY video contributions from 28 different Dundalk artists, Clarke said of the Bowie-influenced track: “‘Time Will Tell’ is a song about death. Its irregular arrangement and calm-to-chaos approach is an extension of the deeper feelings within. Like a teenaged temper boiling over, grieving loss and remembering lost love. Unbalanced, unhinged and hauling ass through circumstance without having time to come to terms with where you are and how you are supposed to feel about it when…

  • Rory Nellis – There Are Enough Songs In The World

    October 31, 2017 - By 

    One of the country’s finest songwriting voices, Rory Nellis, releases his second album, There Are Enough Songs In The World on November 11. The frontman of deeply-respected Belfast power-pop outfit Seven Summits, his 2015 debut LP Ready For You Now was followed by a string of numbered singles, drip-fed to us over the space of 18 months in a typically curated fashion, to make up There Are Enough Songs In The World. It’s an approach, as we’ve already said, has served to isolate each song in its own right, building up and developing a narrative that is clearly threaded throughout the release. A collection of parables, ruminations, and the many suspects of the…

  • The Sunshine Factory – Cruelest Animal EP

    November 6, 2017 - By 

    Cork, ever Ireland’s unexpected cornerstone of hazy psych, can boast another fine release, with The Sunshine Factory having just announced their debut EP proper, Cruelest Animal, the title track of which was released last year following a string of extremely promising demos and homemade recordings. Firmly establishing their neo-psychedelic chops with slots alongside the likes of KXP, The Orange Kyte, and tour support to psychedelic legends The Telescopes on their most recent Irish jaunt. It comes out on November 30th, accompanied by a hometown launch, through their own independent label, Sunshine Cult Records, and was recorded with Chris Somers at One Chance Out Studios. While Cruelest Animal was recorded a year ago, it seems that a healthy gestation…

  • Video Premiere: Lankum – The Granite Gaze

    October 27, 2017 - By 

    Few things are more satisfying than seeing a homegrown act or artist get the attention they so richly deserve further afield. Having spent several years as forging out their own inimitable – and increasingly compelling – alt-folk path as Lynched, Dublin quartet Lankum release their new album, Between the Earth and Sky, via Rough Trade today. Having already received a wave of critical acclaim via the likes of the Guardian, the release is a masterclass of vital and deftly crafted song confirming the foursome’s uncanny knack for transformative, contemporarily-framed traditional song. A nigh on hymnal peak from the new album, ‘The Granite Gaze’ – a…

  • Video Premiere: Deadman’s Ghost – Trepanner

    October 27, 2017 - By 

    The latest taken from his stellar third album, Hypocritical Oath, ‘Trepanner’ by Belfast musician and producer Jason Mills AKA Deadman’s Ghost now comes accompanied with visuals co-produced by Mills and collaborator Ben Jones. Shot in Berlin and Belfast, the video – which very nicely frames the track’s disembodied ambient noise – features a man a man stalked by a malevolent entity who takes drastic measures to escape. The last minute or so here is quite something. Have a first look at the visuals below. Re-visit Hypocritical Oath here.