• Irish Tracks of the Week – January 28th

    January 28, 2022 - By 

    It’s that time of year again, as many of Ireland’s finest acts release new singles to announce their prospective AOTY contenders, as well as a smattering of singles from exciting emergent acts, including the likes of the Thumper, Soak, Naked Lungs, Willhouse feat. GI, Wynona Bleach, My Tribe Your Tribe, Jossle, Rowan and Wallis Bird. Thumper – Overbite Wallis Bird – What’s Wrong With Changing? Soak – Last July Book of the Dead – Mercury At Greatest Eastern Elongation MERCURY AT GREATEST EASTERN ELONGATION by BOOK OF THE DEAD My Tribe Your Tribe – I Stay Quiet I Stay Quiet by My Tribe Your Tribe…

  • My Tribe Your Tribe – Loyalties

    May 25, 2016 - By 

    Hailing from Kildare, My Tribe Your Tribe – not to be confused with I Have a Tribe – are expanding their fan base after an impressively productive 2015. The self-professed alt-rock trio, comprised of George Mercer, Tod Doyle and Colm Daffy, have continued to build the foundations of a promising trajectory, their songs steadily finding their way as the unique blueprint of My Tribe Your Tribe’s sound. Earlier this month they released their debut EP, Loyalties, a darkly melodic collection of compositions that are not entirely expected to co-exist, yet simultaneously work together. It is hard to comprehensively retrace the…

  • Stream: My Tribe Your Tribe – Garden Song

    February 23, 2016 - By 

    Having released one of the best Irish tracks of 2015 in ‘Will To Survive‘, Kildare trio My Tribe Your Tribe have returned with the daydreaming indie-pop of ‘Garden Song’. Once again tapping into some wonderfully subtle melodic glory, it’s a curiously abstracted, typically infectious effort from the fast-rising George Mercer-fronted threesome. MTYT play the following Irish dates in February and March: February 26: Sin É, Dublin March 3: Monroes, Galway March 12: The Village Pump, Rathangan, Kildare March 13: Crane Lane Theatre, Cork ‘Garden Song’ is the first track to be taken from My Tribe Your Tribe’s forthcoming four-track debut EP, which is set for release in…

  • My Tribe Your Tribe – Ghost With You

    October 8, 2015 - By 

    The follow-up to the sublime ‘Will To Survive‘ – one of our favourite Irish tracks of the year thus far – Dublin’s My Tribe Your Tribe are back with a new single, ‘Ghost With You’. Marking their expansion to a three-piece with multi-instrumentalist Colm Daffy entering the fold, the track – yet another instantly impressive slice of anthemic indie-pop from the George Mercer-fronted band – is accompanied with a self-made video featuring the band playing and recording the single. Check out the video below.

  • Stream: My Tribe Your Tribe – Ghost With You

    September 30, 2015 - By 

    Following a packed summer schedule that included slots at Electric Picnic, Body & Soul, Valentia Isle, Spirit of Folk and Secret Village Festivals, eclectic Kildare duo My Tribe Your Tribe have released their third single this year, ‘Ghost With You’. With their debut album due in 2016, this cut fuses their anthemic pop sensibilities with jagged, alt. rock guitar lines and electro-pop synth use. They play The Academy Green Room this Thursday for Hard Working Class Heroes at 9pm, and you can preview the rest of their material on Bandcamp. ‘Ghost With You’ will be released on October 30, but you can stream it…

  • 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.

  • Stream: My Tribe Your Tribe – Will To Survive

    June 11, 2015 - By 

    Soon set to play the likes of Body & Soul and Valentia Isle Festival this Summer, ‘Will to Survive’ by Dublin alt-electro duo My Tribe Your Tribe is a song with “summer festival setlist peak” written all over it. Sun-kissed and propulsive in all the right places, was recorded and produced in Temple-lane studios by James Darkin and (in the duo’s own words) “displays the band’s explorations into upbeat, synth-laden electronica.” We’re not even remotely inclined to argue with that. Catch the band at Homebeat’s Tree Haus sage at Body & Soul on Friday, June 19.

  • Stream: My Tribe Your Tribe – Vol. II EP

    December 2, 2013 - By 

    Dublin-based singer-songwriter and producer George Mercer AKA My Tribe Your Tribe is streaming his second solo EP, the aptly-titled Vol. II. Formerly of Boy Lights Fire, Mercer released Vol. 1 back in April. Vol. II is mainly comprised of material written since the musician moved to Dublin from Laois in June. Speaking of the release Mercer said “My direction felt like it was changing. A lot of the previous influences and styles of music I has been listening to over the past couple of years were surfacing in my writing.” “I wanted to bring the immediacy of folk and popular music into play,…