This Juneteenth, Bandcamp are donating 100% of their sales to the Legal Defence Fund to support racial justice, equality & change. If you’re planning on buying some music – Irish or otherwise – via the platform, today is that day. On which note, here’s the best Irish tracks and LPs of the week, including Denise Chaila, Rejjie Snow, Kojaque, Dani Larkin, Aislinn Logan, Rebekah Fitch, Alpha Chrome Yayo, Strange Boy feat Hazey Haze, and more. Denise Chaila – 061 Rejjie Snow feat. Tinashe & grouptherapy. – Disco Pantz Rebekah Fitch – Goodbye Aislinn Logan – Certain Days Dani Larkin – Notes For A Maiden…
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Beating out the rest of 2021 so far in terms of both quality and quantity, check out the very best Irish tracks of the week, featuring Lighght, Soda Blonde, Poor Petal, SORBET, HAVVK, Æ MAK, Lilac, Ghostking Is Dead, For Those I Love, Gender Chores, Cussen, CMAT, This Ship Argo, Saint Sister, Dunx, Travi The Native and K3:LU. Ghostking Is Dead – I Don’t Need Help I Don’t Need Help by Ghostking Is Dead Æ MAK – New Friend Lighght – there are parts of my soul i don’t dare speak Holy Endings by Lighght Gnarkats – All The Time…
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After a three year gestation period, Polish-born, Dublin-raised Mateusz Koznik, AKA Poor Petal has only in the last month started to drip-feed his own blend of tripped-out, yet subdued melancholic hip-hop, woozy bedroom pop and lo-fi indie rock, imbued with found sounds and homespun charm. At turns hopeful and inward-looking, debut EP zzz – written, produced & mastered by Poor Petal – horizontally floats and drifts along, picking up, peering at, and ultimately casting aside personal flotsam across its six somnambulant tracks. Mateusz told us more about its creation: “zzz took me almost 3 years to finish. Before this project I was always writing music and making beats, but I felt caged in with my inability…