• Watch: Therapy? – Deathstimate

    October 22, 2015 - By 

    From the halcyon days of ‘Perversonality’, ‘Screamager’, ‘Femtex’ and ‘Brainsaw’, Therapy? have always been good for a lurid titular portmanteau. The latest in that hallowed tradition is their new single, ‘Deathstimate’, which serves as a triumphant, seven-minute closer to their fourteenth studio album, Disquiet. Set for official release on October 30, an abridged version of the single has been released with a suitably heavy video by Sitcom Soldiers. Therapy? play Infernal Love anniversary shows at Dublin’s The Button Factory on December 10/11 and Belfast’s Limelight on December 12. Watch the video for the ‘Deathstimate’ below (and go here to stream the full, seven-minute, Sabbath…

  • Stream: Daithi – Mary Keanes Introduction

    October 19, 2015 - By 

    For as long as we can recall, Galway’s Daithi has always operated on an inimitable sonic plain, forging electronica with classical in a squall of fearlessness and vision. The latest manifestation of that experimental quest, ‘Mary Keanes Introduction’ features his 90 year old grandmother reminiscing about romance in her youth in the West coast of Ireland. Primed as a perfectly-paced and framed introduction to his forthcoming Tribes EP, the track fuses two distinct worlds – that of the old and that of the new – to spawn something so innately joyous that you would struggle to find it anything but wonderfully accomplished. Speaking of the track, Daithi said, “A…

  • Stream: Sea Pinks – Depth of Field

    October 19, 2015 - By 

    Just over a year on from the release of the stellar Dreaming Tracks, Belfast threesome Sea Pinks have re-emerged with new single, ‘Depth of Field’. Yet another masterfully sanguine slice of melancholia from the Neil Brogan-fronted band, the track – relating ambivalence and doubt in ways they mastered many moons ago – is the first taste of what to expect from their forthcoming new album, Soft Days, which is set for release in January via CF Records.

  • Stream: Defcon – Reach Out

    October 16, 2015 - By 

    Released via London’s Kinnego records, Belfast producer Connor Dougan AKA Defcon has woven some real magic on his new, three-track EP, Reach Out. According to his Bandcamp page, Dougan has “taken the lesser-travelled route of low-key experimentation and refinement, and has arrived at something unique, informed by leftfield hiphop and crate-digging, but also modern dub trickery and bass weight.” Check out our review of the EP in the October issue of our magazine online here. Reach Out by Defcon

  • Stream: Pleasure Beach – Dreamer to the Dawn

    October 15, 2015 - By 

    Forming from the ashes of Yes Cadets, ‘Dreamer to the Dawn’ by Belfast five-piece Pleasure Beach bears the urgent hallmarks of the likes of overlords Arcade Fire, The National and The War on Drugs. The follow-up to their very well-received debut single ‘Go’ (which we featured here) the band’s new single is a streamlined slice of zealous electro-pop. If Springsteen snuck into Beach House’s studio circa the recording of Teen Dream and magic came to pass, this would surely resemble the result. ‘Dreamer to The Dawn’ is taken from the band’s debut EP of the same name, which will be released via…

  • Watch: Contour – Paradise Lost

    October 15, 2015 - By 

    Dublin duo Anna Doran and Conan Wynne AKA Contour have always kept us on our toes here at TTA, steadily releasing material that constantly seems to be growing more and more inimitable and suggestive of big things in the pipeline. Lifted from their Champion Sound-released EP Blessed With Weird Things, the pair’s Paul Mahon-directed video for new single ‘Paradise Lost’ is an ambitious, experimental audiovisual milestone on their journey to date.

  • Stream: Paddy Hanna – Underprotected

    October 15, 2015 - By 

    A prophetic tale-teller and uncannily perceptive pop talisman, Dublin’s Paddy Hanna is, for us, something of a sub-genre unto himself. A key exponent of Paddyhannaism, week by week, his talents become yet more apparent, not least during a string of dates across the country recently that have coalesced as some kind of Good Word of Irish music and testament to a burgeoning appreciation of an artist who emanates an air of resolution. Taken from the forthcoming two-track EP of the same name – set for release on December 4 – ‘Underprotected’ is another superb statement of intent, coursing and balanced with feverish fragility and…

  • Watch: Cloud Castle Lake – Genuflect (Live)

    October 15, 2015 - By 

    Currently over in the States playing some shows for CMJ, Dublin quartet Cloud Castle Lake have long been one of the country’s more idiosyncratic and consistently innovatory acts. Having teamed up with Dublin-based collective This Greedy Pig, the band have unveiled the video for ‘Genuflect’, a seven-minute capturing the latest – nigh on beatific – stage of the band’s forever forward-thinking evolution. Tapping into something profound across its sleep and release, the track fuses Mingus-esque brass with totemic percussion, effects-soaked guitar, lead-like bass work and Daniel McAuley’s ever impressive, range-defying vocal acrobatics. If you’re in NYC, don’t miss them at Routh Trade on Saturday…

  • Stream: Saint Sister – Blood Moon

    October 12, 2015 - By 

    Having made a big impression at Hard Working Class Heroes last weekend, Irish duo Gemma Doherty and Morgan MacIntyre AKA Saint Sister have hit the ground sprinting with their new single, ‘Blood Moon’. Taken from the band’s forthcoming Madrid EP – set for released via Trout Records on October 30 – the track is a brilliantly earworming three minutes of drifting and empyrean folk-pop. Madrid was recorded in a short, “intense” session at County Kerry’s Noise studio by Alex Ryan of Hozier. Stream ‘Blood Moon’ below. Photos by Deborah Sheedy.

  • 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.