• The Thin Air’s Top 50 Irish Releases of 2020

    December 20, 2020 - By 

    In years to come, when someone asks me what The Thin Air was and represented, I’ll likely direct them to features like the one you have just opened. Much like other publications of our ilk – Nialler9, The Last Mixed Tape, Goldenplec and others – we spend 52 weeks of the year relentlessly championing what truly makes Irish music special and, very occasionally, genuinely world-beating. We all do it in different ways, and to slightly different audiences, but the impetus and desire to shine a light on what we have is one and the very same. Although they’re almost never…

  • Irish Releases of the Week – October 30th

    October 30, 2020 - By 

    Another phenomenal week of Irish music, we’ve expanded this time around to feature full length releases, including Nealo’s long-awaited debut LP, Kobina’s phenomenal charity compilation -featuring Jape, Arvo Party and more – a Tuath & Lunch Machine collaboration, Bitch Falcon, Dunluvly, Rebekah Fitch, Mick Flannery, Jackie Beverly, Silent Ghost and more. Nealo – All The Leaves Are Falling Kobina – For Nora For Nora by Kobina Tuath & Lunch Machine – Mountains and Grooves Dunluvly – Something On My Mind Mick Flannery & Anais – Minnesota Rebekah Fitch – Game Over A.S. Fanning – All Time Jackie Beverly – Sea Glass…

  • Irish Tracks of The Week – August 21st

    August 21, 2020 - By 

    From Kojaque, Paddy Hanna, ROE and Tolü Makay, to Wyvern Lingo, Bitch Falcon, Insideawave and beyond, here’s the very best Irish tracks released this week. Kojaque – Shmelly Tolü Makay – Don’t Let Go Insideawave – Tour Guides CARRON – Even Sad Birds Sing (Kobina Remix) Wyvern Lingo – Brutal Lottery Bitch Falcon – Test Trip Blakkheart – Honey Boy ROE – Hotel Sequence w/ LukeFly – Free Paddy Hanna – Colosseum The Shaking – Uninspidered

  • Stream a new Kobina remix of Bouts’ Love’s Lost Landings Pt. 2

    March 22, 2019 - By 

    In one of the finest musical meeting of minds we’ve heard in quite some time, Amsterdam-based Irish producer Sean Arthur aka Kobina has reworked ‘Love’s Lost Landings Pt. 2’, a recent single from Dublin indie rock heroes Bouts. Across four minutes, it makes for a glitchy, subtly propulsive affair that masterfully ekes out hidden rhythms and streams of melodic finesse from the original. Start your weekend right by giving it a spin or two below. Arthur said, “With any remix I try to find the core of what makes the original stand out to me and then flip it. For me the original…

  • Stream: James Vincent McMorrow – Pink Salt Lake (Kobina Remix)

    August 18, 2017 - By 

    After the release of True Care, James Vincent McMorrow released the stems for two album tracks ‘Pink Salt Lake’ and ‘Holding On’, opening up the floor for remixers to explore and interpret the album in new ways. In an Instagram post he said: “Everything about True Care has been different. I want that reality to extend to the remixes.” Dublin-native Amsterdam-based producer Sean Arthur AKA Kobina has stepped up to the plate with a languid remix of ‘Pink Salt Lake’, taking the hushed, velvety ambience of the original and decorating it with light, pulsing beats, down-pitched vocals and giving the gospel choir backdrop a welcome…