• Stream: Oh Volcano – Rush Of Blood

    June 23, 2015 - By 

    Forming from the embers of General Fiasco early last year, Belfast brother duo Owen and Enda Strathern AKA Oh Volcano have consistently piqued our interest over the last couple of years with sporadic live shows and singles including ‘Oceans’ and ‘See No Evil’. Taken from their forthcoming debut, Don’t Know Love, new single ‘Rush of Blood’ goes one further, proving a very considered, wonderfully produced piece of electro-pop. Oh Volcano play their next show at Belfast’s Empire on July 3, alongside Goons, Dutch Schultz and Parapa Palace. Stream ‘Rush of Blood’ below. Artwork by Stuart Bell.

  • Stream: GODHATESDISCO – Incredible Technology

    June 23, 2015 - By 

    Melding estranged spoken word meets kosmiche-tinged instrumental psych, ‘Incredible Technology’ by GODHATESDISCO gives a subtly glorious glimmer of insight of what to expect from the Dublin duo’s forthcoming album, Great Radio. Grasping for unseen lucidity, marrying malevolent electronic dissonance with pulsating bass and Motorik groove, the track blossoms and simmers before expiring in a haze of noise and the fractured words of an anonymous female voice. Great Radio is released via Little Gem Records on July 24. Go here to help fund the record.

  • Stream: Terriers – Believing The Crystal

    June 22, 2015 - By 

    Taken from their Octagon EP – released via Dutch imprint Rhythm Nation – Dublin duo Peter Ward and Ronan Downing AKA Terriers have mustered some real magic on their unravelling, seven-minute techno chugger ‘Believing The Crystal’. Evoking tripped-out, somnambulist forays in some non-descript, sweaty-walled club of yore,  the track bears the sonic fruits of the pair recently being under the learned guide of Levon Vincent for three months in Berlin. A sound move, we say. Photo by Sarah Doyle

  • Stream: Cruising – Safe Corridor

    June 17, 2015 - By 

    Having announced last week that their self-titled debut EP will be released via Tough Love on August 14, Cruising are streaming one of its featured tracks, ‘Safe Corridor’. Something of a composite of the coastal doom and promenade solipsism of their other bands (September Girls, Girls Names and Sea Pinks) the track retains a singular, virulent edge, capturing some of the magic that has made the Dublin/Belfast quartet’s early shows nothing short of awe-inspiringly good. Pre-order Cruising here.

  • 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: Slow Riot – City of Culture

    June 10, 2015 - By 

    Something of a statement of intent, the bio section of Limerick trio Slow Riot’s Facebook page reads, “Slow Riot came together make something altogether different. A soundtrack to a existential noir novel. Something you might here on the local radio station on a drive through Twin Peaks? Either way its all parts dark, brooding and core rattling.” Wearing their patent noise and post-punk influences on their collective sleeve, the band’s debut single, ‘City of Culture’, comes roaring out of the traps and conjures the likes of Art Brut, Wire, Interpol, Sonic Youth and Girl Band at different points throughout its three-and-half-minutes. Promising…

  • Stream: Tomorrows – The Circle

    June 3, 2015 - By 

    With the turn of summer rather precariously around the corner, Dublin band Tomorrows have offered up a sun-kissed, melancholy-tinged one-track soundtrack in the form of ‘The Circle’. Conjuring the likes of the Spinto Band and Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, the track follows on very nicely from the equally impressive ‘Another Life’ and ‘Free’, going that bit further and hitting home with its simple, warped pop wanderlust. We’re big fans.

  • Stream: Girls Names – Reticence

    June 1, 2015 - By 

    Three months on from the release of eleven-minute post-punk odyssey ‘Zero Triptych’, Girls Names have re-emerged with one of the their strongest tracks to date, ‘Reticence’. With guitars returning to centre-stage from the off, the track unravels from a scourging intro to reveal a band exuding an air of confidence in the latest manifestation of their constantly evolving yet always instantly recognisable sound. Stream the track – taken from the band’s forthcoming album Arms Around a Vision – below.

  • Stream: Cut Once – Forget About The World

    May 25, 2015 - By 

    One of our featured Inbound acts in our May magazine, Dublin duo Michael Heffernan and Aisling Browne AKA Cut Once have released their second single, ‘Let’s Forget About The World’. Clocking in at over just over four minutes in the length, the tracks is a stripped-back, hook-filled effort taken from their debut EP, Institution, suggesting some serious potential for the fast-rising pair.

  • Stream: Sorcha Richardson – Petrol Station

    May 14, 2015 - By 

    Having first caught our attention back in October, 2013 with the delicate, confessional folk of her wonderfully understated EP, Last Train, New York-based Dublin songstress Sorcha Richardson has just released a new track, ‘Petrol Station’. A simmering, nocturnal slice of electro-pop which sees Richardson’s lyrical gymnastic take centre-stage, the track was recorded by Gian Stone. Stream it below.