• Irish Tracks of the Week – August 28th

    August 28, 2020 - By 

    From the sledgehammer riffing of Shifting, electronics of Son Zept and Marcus Woods, indie-pop returns by Æ MAK, Catalan and We Cut Corners, to arguably Ireland’s most exciting rising hip-hop star in Denise Chaila, check out this week’s round-up of best new Irish music. Denise Chaila – Holy Grail Son Zept – Lush Lab B by Son Zept Æ MAK – I Dance In The Kitchen (feat. Seba Safe) Shifting – Big Ed It Was Good by Shifting SENU – Jetlag 2 Catalan – Fortune We Cut Corners – Muscle Memory Muscle Memory EP by We Cut Corners Marcus Woods – Repose Tactics Maria Doyle Kennedy – Keeps…

  • 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

  • Watch: Paddy Hanna – Colosseum

    August 18, 2020 - By 

    From 2014’s stellar Leafy Stiletto to last year’s Frankly, I Mutate, Paddy Hanna has always delivered the goods, and then some, on the album front. In a couple of months’ time, we’ve naturally come to expect more of the same from one of the country’s most consistently rewarding songwriting voices. Set for release via Strange Brew on October 16th, The Hill – which was recorded by Girl Band’s Daniel Fox – is headed by new single ‘Colosseum’, a self-described Doo Wop song about Gladiators, “or more specifically a song that deals with feeling out of step in a world not made for…

  • Premiere: Fixity – FIXITY 6

    August 14, 2020 - By 

    The music of Fixity, aka Irish multi-instrumentalist Dan Walsh, has always been perfectly thicket-like – a dense, sprawling mesh in which to get lost, happily stuck even. Since mid-2016, it’s been a conduit for all kinds of probing, forward-moving forays into God-knows-where. Spanning live EPs and first-rate LPs including last year’s No Man Can Tell – a release TTA’s Ryan O’Neill called “a brilliantly loose, shapeshifting record that is quite difficult to compare to anything else” – Walsh and co-conspirators including tenor saxophonist Emil Nerstrand have consistently delivered carefully-crafted, often masterfully mind-melting music. New release FIXITY 6 doesn’t deviate from this tried-and-test…

  • Album Stream: Postcard Versions – Remote Viewing

    August 10, 2020 - By 

    In case you missed it, Friday saw the surprise, name-your-price release of Postcard Versions‘ new LP, following up on their debut –  one of Ireland’s finest indie rock albums of last year. Messrs Paddy Ormond and Ross Hamer – of The Claque, Music City, Oh Boland and more – are back with another ten warming, bite-size gems, adding to the city’s not-insubstantial bedroom-pop canon – born not out of aesthetic, but economic necessity. Stream below: Remote Viewing by Postcard Versions

  • Stream: Fixity – Still Still

    August 10, 2020 - By 

    One of the island’s most consistently intriguing musical minds, Dan Walsh is a composer and drummer who has spent the last few years honing and expanding his hyper-explorative craft. Beyond performing with TTA favourites The Bonk and Ireland’s premier rock n’ roll band (their words – but who are we to disagree?) The Tan Jackets, his output as Fixity has been reliably nonpareil. On August 17th, Walsh will push further still via FIXITY 6, a new, seven-track release available on limited edition cassette. Featuring Muireann Levis of Elastic Sleep and Magdalena on theremin, and accompanied by visuals courtesy of David…

  • Irish Tracks Of The Week – August 7th

    August 7, 2020 - By 

    It’s been yet another phenomenal week for new releases in every corner of the island, boosted by today being the monthly Bandcamp Friday, which sees the platform waive all its own cuts – take that, Spotify. Delve into the best of the lot, featuring Postcard Versions, Joshua Burnside, Just Mustard, Wyvern Lingo, Natalia Beylis, and many more. Postcard Versions – Do You Consider? Just Mustard – Seven (Live on KXLU) Live Session by Just Mustard Joshua Burnside – War on Everything Kynsy – Cold Blue Light lastminuteman – Walking Into Water At Night %%%%%% by lastminuteman Natalia Beylis – Ursa Minor Old…

  • Video Premiere: Feather Beds – Fragile

    August 5, 2020 - By 

    Masterfully blurring the lines between dream-pop, shoegaze, electronica, ambient, and experimentalism, London-based Dublin artist Michael Orange aka Feather Beds is easily one of the island’s most idiosyncratic musical minds. Premiered this morning on Mary Anne Hobbs’ BBC 6 Music show, his new single ‘Fragile’ is a first-rate first taste for newcomers. Doubling up as the lead single from his forthcoming EP, Fragile/Temper, it marries carefully-crafted soundscapes with a rush of 8bit blips to create something that, despite nodding to the likes of Ariel Pink and The Cure, is unmistakably his. Just as inviting is Orange’s homespun visuals for the single, which you can…

  • Premiere: Dutch Schultz – Start Me

    July 30, 2020 - By 

    In March 2016, we hosted a show that would double up as the last we’d heard from Belfast alt-rock quartet Dutch Schultz in over four years. Blessedly, out of the blue, last month came a signal. Via trouncing new single, ‘Brutus’, the Willy Mundell-fronted foursome were back just when we needed them the most. Ahead of release tomorrow, we’re pleased to present the first look and listen to its follow-up, ‘Start Me’. The second single to be taken from the band’s forthcoming, Russ Russell-produced album, Friends Like Brutus, it’s a typically earworming effort tackling, in their worlds, “consumerism amid the pressures of…

  • Monday Mixtape: John Francis Flynn

    July 27, 2020 - By 

    In the latest instalment of Monday Mixtape, experimental Dublin folk singer John Francis Flynn – who you may have caught on the wonderful inaugural episode of Live From Guerrilla Studios – takes us through some of his favourite recent musical finds, across a wealth of traditional and avant-garde sounds. It’s the year 2020. I’m on a train wearing a mask. Time has been moving very fast recently, and very very slowly. I’m going to Mayo to be alone. I will climb a mountain, swim in the sea and work on some music. When I come back to Dublin I will finish recording my first album…