• Watch: Wyvern Lingo – I Love You Sadie

    August 10, 2017 - By 

    Back in June we shared ‘I Love You Sadie’, the latest – and quite possibly finest – single from Bray alt-pop threesome Wyvern Lingo. Having called it “another instant gem bursting at the seams with the threesome’s slick marriage of exquisite, RnB-inflected harmonies, groove-laden patterns and their collective ear for a killer hook” we’re pleased to share the track’s slick new video courtesy of Louise Gaffney (who, as you might well know, is also a member of Come On Live Long). One of the Irish songs of the summer? Easily.

  • Watch: Elephant – Mirrors

    August 8, 2017 - By 

    Just last week we featured ‘Mirrors’ by Dundalk-based artist and multi-instrumentalist Shane Clarke AKA Elephant, an effort we called a “Bowie-coloured route with distorted, effect laden guitars, sparkling keys and prominent drums propping up Clarke’s vocals”. The third single to be taken from his forthcoming second album, the song – which is “a pining for youth, mourning its mistakes and trying to recall just when it was that you became so cynical” – has been granted another, wonderfully crafted resonance courtesy of visuals from the videographers over at Farney House. Roll on album number two.

  • Watch: Alien She – Solitary

    August 5, 2017 - By 

    Bearing the sonic imprint of everyone from Patti Smith and Sonic Youth to Joy Division and The Cure, ‘Solitary’ by Dublin three-piece Alien She is hands down their strongest and most compelling single effort to date. Set to feature on their forthcoming debut album Feeler – which is set for release via the excellent Art For Blind in the Autumn – it’s a spectral, solipsistic affair, whose lo-fi tone and tangents marry nicely with the track’s accompanying visuals. Edited by the band’s guitarist/vocalist Katie O’Neill, check out the video below. Revisit our 17 For ’17 piece with the band here. Check out our…

  • Watch: Meljoann – Private World (Live)

    August 4, 2017 - By 

    You know what’s great and extremely re-watchable? This brand new live video of Irish producer, DJ and musician Meljoann performing ‘Private World’. Featuring a nice range of instruments and interfaces (namely Ableton Live, Akai LPD-8, MOTU Ultralite mk-3, JoeMeek threeQ, Alesis Vortex Wireless Keytar, and a guitar for all your gear heads), it is – as top comment on the video accurately sums up – a “deliriously fantastic” rendition, conjuring the likes of Prince and Janet Jackson fed through a prism of darkly electro sounds. THAT SOLO.

  • Premiere: the 202s – Dash For The Exit (Real Love Doesn’t Lie)

    July 26, 2017 - By 

    Dublin trio the 202s have shared the third single from their forthcoming third album. Following from ‘Up In Thin Air’ earlier this year and ‘Oh My My’ in January 2016, the band’s own brand of indie-pop shines through once again on ‘Dash For The Exit (Real Love Doesn’t Lie). With a healthy dose of krautrock’s percussive clatter, coupled with ambient, melodic textures and a distorted vocal, the track is one that rests in your mind for hours after listening, tickling the nerves in head that nudge you back to it again and again. Our Will Murphy described the 202s as a band…

  • Watch: Loner Deluxe – Summer Song

    July 20, 2017 - By 

    The music-making moniker of Galway indie maestro and Rusted Rail founder Keith Wallace AKA Loner Deluxe is an appellation that strongly hints at the willfully – and wonderfully – introspective nature of his craft. Conjuring the likes of early-to-mid 90s era material on Slumberland, Misplaced Music and Fluff Records via a prism of Beta Band, Grandaddy and hints of Nick Drake, new single ‘Summer Song’ is a blithe, lo-fi instrumental taken from both the recent Loner Deluxe/A Lilac Decline split, as well as the new Loner Deluxe album, Songs I Taped Off The Radio. Stream and/or order that on cassette here. Shot in…

  • Watch: Pillow Queens – Rats

    July 17, 2017 - By 

    Having self-released the debut EP, Calm Girls, back in December, Dublin pop-punk band Pillow Queens have been growing in momentum over the last few months. Coinciding with their first UK tour, the four-piece have unveiled the DIY video to their new single, ‘Rats’. According to the band, the video “takes place on the set of a radical left queer educational programme for children. Despite being severely underfunded and under-rehearsed the show goes on, their aim being to enlighten the youth of Ireland to the wonderful world of leftist politics. Hosted by Snotsey-May Darcy and co-hosted by resident artist Síle O’Surelook…

  • Watch: SÍOMHA – July Red Sky (Live in the Burren)

    July 7, 2017 - By 

    Lahinch, Co. Clare based musician Síomha Brock has shared a striking visual accompaniment for ‘July Red Sky’. A fitting and really rather mesmeric pairing, the song’s neo-soul and jazz influenced flow brings the marvellous pinks, reds and oranges of the Burren’s coastal skyline to life. The performance, shot live at sunrise on what looks like quite a spectacular morning, is as natural and breezy as the landscape suggests, making for an intoxicating combination that puts you right there with Brock and her band, wind billowing through your very core. Irresistible.

  • Watch: JyellowL – ‘Cold In The Summer’

    July 5, 2017 - By 

    One of many shining lights that make up Dublin’s Word Up Collective, Dublin-based rapper JyellowL has just unveiled the new video/short film for his new seven-minute single ‘Cold In The Summer’. Bolstered by its masterfully lax pace and slick production, the song – which is a socially-conscious and nicely earworming effort – tackles the issues that affected him as a young man of Nigerian/Jamaican heritage growing up in Ireland. Speaking of the release, the young artist said, “The title is a euphemism for racism, black oppression, police brutality and death. “It is an artistic reminder that racism still ever present and has been an…

  • Watch: Rusangano Family – I Know You Know

    June 16, 2017 - By 

    The first single to be unveiled following the release of their Choice Music Prize-winning debut album Let The Dead Bury The Dead, Limerick-based trio Rusangano Family have just unveiled the video for ‘I Know You Know’. Directed, shot and edited by the ever-talented Bob Gallagher “in conspiracy with” some familiar faces in Naoise Roo, Linda O’Connor, Sarah Joy McDermott, Eamonn Elliot, Elaine Mai, Sam Burton, Lisa O’Flynn, Kate O’Shea, David MacNamara, Aoife O’Donoghue and Eavan Brennan, the video is a masterfully understated – yet impressively experimental – visual accompaniment to a track that ‘is about how we all face various challenges in…