• Irish Tracks of the Week – 16th June

    June 16, 2023 - By 

    It’s Friday again so that means another very excellent week of new releases from the likes of Aoife Wolf, Slouch, Maija Sofia, Pat Lagoon, Finnian, Paddy Hanna and more Aoife Wolf – A Ringing in the Ear Slouch – I Got This Job Because I’m Too Stupid To Steal I GOT THIS JOB BECAUSE I'M TOO STUPID TO STEAL by SLOUCH Paddy Hanna – Nightmares Maija Sofia – Four Winters Thom Southern – Let Someone Else In Caoilian Sherlock – The Wheels Come Off Teenage Jesus Album by Caoilian Sherlock Pat Lagoon – Carousel Connor McCann – Lady Rest Jake…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 1st April

    April 1, 2022 - By 

    With such an incredible bombardment of new albums, collaborations and singles from the likes of Pillow Queens, Oh Boland, Acid Granny, Roe, Tuath x Shammen Delly x Tara Baoth Mooney and many more this Bandcamp Friday, do the needful and pick up a few new tracks from a selection of our absolute best. Oh Boland – Cheap Things Cheap Things by Oh Boland Tuath x Shammen Delly x Tara Baoth Mooney – Sumer Is Icumin In Iarlais by Tuath Pillow Queens – Leave The Light On Leave The Light On by Pillow Queens Acid Granny – Songs For The Radio Songs For…

  • Premiere: Jake Wallace – Sanguine feat. Clare Kearney

    March 25, 2022 - By 

    Released last June, Lacuna by Jake Wallace marked an inspired solo break from the pure-cut heft of his work with doom/sludge outfit Elder Druid. On 1st April, the Belfast musician doubles down on the five-track EP’s deft, contemplative explorations with the release of his debut solo album, Lustre of the Dark. Featuring seven new tracks alongside remastered versions of Lacuna, it traverses, in Wallace’s words, themes of self-discovery, isolation and the balance between light and dark. Lead single ‘Sanguine’ features one of the album’s two guest vocal appearances. Above a phantasmal weave of cyclical piano and guitar patterns, Clare Kearney…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – June 4th

    June 4, 2021 - By 

    This week is one of extreme abundance across the board, with the first collaborative release from Joshua Burnside & Lemoncello’s Laura Quirke, SORBET’s debut album, Nerves, Skinner, Tuath, Hex Hue, Jake Wallace, Punching Peaches, Ciaran Lavery, Soda Blonde, VerseChorusVerse, Royal Yellow, and some cuts from a cover compilation to benefit No More Dysphoria including F.R.U.I.T.Y., Problem Patterns, Big Daisy and many more. Joshua Burnside & Laura Quirke – Taking The Wheel Laura Quirke & Joshua Burnside – Taking the Wheel by Joshua Burnside SORBET – This Was Paradise This Was Paradise by SORBET Nerves – Leigue Leigue by NERVES Tuath – That…

  • Premiere: Jake Wallace – Empyrean

    June 3, 2021 - By 

    As one-fifth of Belfast doom merchants Elder Druid, Jake Wallace knows a thing or two about the power of heft. Today, he offers a new vantage point to view his craft Taken from his debut solo EP, Lacuna – which is officially released via Black Tragick Records tomorrow – two-minute instrumental ‘Empyrean’ is a masterfully restrained effort that shines a light on the many hues of Wallace’s full-spectrum sound, Speaking about the EP, Wallace said, ‘The project came about as a result of lockdown and a few rainy afternoons in Belfast. I had never recorded any acoustic music at all, although I had…