Another great week of Irish music sees new releases from the established likes of SOAK, Fixity, Talos Sean Being and Melts, while some debut singles & EPs drop from Yard and Pastiche. Fixity – Always Again [feat. Philip Christie] Sean Being – Faux Window FAUX WINDOW by Seán Being Yard – Lawmaker Melts – Spectral SPECTRAL by MELTS Soak – Swear Jar Talos – Dance Against the Calm Pastiche – Freak Show Symphony EP
Opening with a sharp downpour of prickling synth tones and electrical disturbance, Dublin artist Sean Being’s DEIS wastes little time setting a chilly and discomfited tone, oh so fitting of the EP’s December 28th release date. If the end of the year was already characterised by damp post-holiday ennui and a cruel and unusual tendency to take stock and pick over our many and varied personal failings, the caustic pall cast by 2020’s concurrent dumpster infernos certainly helped make it all the bleaker this time around. The extended state of emergency and protracted isolation that many of us have become intimately…
Sean Being has shared a new single, ‘Angel’, with accompanying visuals premiering today (25th November). It marks the Dublin’ artist’s first new music since 2019’s ‘The Brikc’ tape on the reliably excellent wherethetimegoes label. ‘Angel’ pushes his experimental pop style further, with cloudy, euphoric synths, emotive vocal hooks and a crisp, lo-fi electronic rhythm coming together to produce an autumnal anthem, made for late-night walks. The video for the track, directed by Anna Heisterkamp, is appropriately tender, and makes for a beautifully atmospheric accompaniment. The track is set to appear on a new EP from Sean Being, which is set to…