• Watch: Super Silly – Not Ready To Leave

    March 10, 2017 - By 

    One of our featured 17 for ’17 acts, Dublin quartet Precious, Solbas, Grooves, and Shek AKA Super Silly are the living, breathing definition of an act whose self-belief and natural musical chemistry will undoubtedly guide them to big things. Having only made their live debut in August of last year, the Word Up Collective foursome’s blend of modern RnB, hip-hop, soul, pop and gospel is as slick as it is downright earworming, and nowhere is that more on display than their new single ‘Not Ready to Leave’. Accompanied with a stellar video courtesy of Seán Clancy, the track – is a groove-laden slice…

  • Watch: Hiva Oa – Jonny Brazil

    March 10, 2017 - By 

    Comprised of two core members in Stephen Houlihan and Christine Tubridy as well as three interchangeable live members, Belfast’s Hiva Oa have been riding a steady wave of acclaim and momentum over the last few months. A highlight from their sublime 2016 EP mk 2 (part 1) (which we premiered here) single ‘Jonny Brazil’ now comes accompanied with a video that very nicely reflects the song’s dominant themes of escapism and grasping for clarity. Ahead of the the release of mk 2 (part 1), check out the video below.

  • Watch: Eoin Dolan – One Girl

    March 7, 2017 - By 

    Taken from his forthcoming second album Ubique, ‘One Girl’ by Galway songsmith Eoin Dolan is a breezy slice of surf-pop which – in his own, likely totally spot-on words – will set the tone for the album’s spacey, ethereal and adventurous new world vision. The track features Dolan, as well as James Casserly on drums, Adam Sheeran on bass and Conor Deasy of Tomorrows and Biggles Flys Again on lead guitar. Recorded and produced by Dolan, and mastered by Fergal Davis, Philip K Dick, sixtie/seventies sci-fi, Brave New World and French classic-pop have coalesced to inform the poise and direction of…

  • Watch: Tongue Bundle – Now That Album’s Funny/No Plans Bastard

    March 2, 2017 - By 

    Last week, we premiered the video for Dublin experimental jazz-punk outfit Tongue Bundle‘s track ‘Bobby’, the first to be revealed from their forthcoming album Peppery Talk. Now, with the album set to drop this Saturday March 4th, the group have unveiled yet another teaser in the form of ‘Now That Album’s Funny/No Plans Bastard’. The sample-heavy frenzy, reminiscent of The Books, Air and the dark, tripping urbanity of UK dub outlier Burial is yet another startling cut from an album that is shaping up to be one of the most interesting to come out of the country this year. Tongue Bundle will launch Peppery Talk on March 4th in The…

  • Watch: Tomorrows – Ricochet

    February 27, 2017 - By 

    Featuring the ever encahnting Laura Sheeran, Dublin “cosmic-pop” quartet Tomorrows have unveiled the video for their new single ‘Ricochet’. Filmed by David O’Carroll of The People We Meet, Sheeran’s nocturnal traipse through the streets of Dublin town strikes a perfectly playful contrast with the track’s buoyant melodic flow. The single is a highlight from Tomorrows’ Trout Records-released album Another Life, which you can stream in full/buy here.

  • Watch: Stoat – Talk Radio Makes Me Feel Alone

    February 23, 2017 - By 

    Not up to date with all the fun scandals going about? Memes proving a bit abstract for your liking? Telling your car radio to piss off again? You’re not alone. Periodically re-emerging trio Stoat have returned with a new single and the promise of a new album entitled Try Not To Think About It, set to arrive in the Summer. The single, ‘Talk Radio Makes Me Feel Alone’ takes the high-octane spoken word lyricism heard on their previous releases and jigs it all up with a Cardiacs-meets-Sleaford Mods type backdrop. As on albums Future Come Get Me (2005) and Ducks and Flying Dogs (2002) Stoat’s MO is as…

  • Watch: Talos – Odyssey

    February 20, 2017 - By 

    Having been on an increasingly impressive trajectory over the last four years, Cork producer Eoin French AKA Talos will release his highly-anticipated debut album, Wild Alee, on April 21. A new single taken from that, the lush electro-pop of ‘Odyssey’ makes for a nigh on five minute ballad of swirling textures and emotive incandescence. Speaking of the track, French said, ““In any endeavour we find ourselves at the point of doubt. Those moments where you question yourself. That’s what the line, ‘In this odyssey, it’s hard to leave…’ refers to. It’s a beautiful and testing cycle. “I was asking myself some pretty big questions.…

  • Watch: No Monster Club – Sion

    February 13, 2017 - By 

    Not exactly an outfit to needlessly sit on or tease out new material, Dublin’s No Monster Club are a band whose prolific output has never been cause to wonder about quality or consistency. Released as a single back in February last year, the slinking art-pop of ‘Sion’ is a perfect case in point, something we’ve been happy to re-visit in the form of its brand new video, an accompaniment featuring what main man Bobby Aherne calls words “vaguely meta” video footage featuring the very parade the song is written about. Sure enough, it syncs up wonderfully well.

  • Watch: Gross Net – Still Life

    February 9, 2017 - By 

    An outright highlight from his first-rate debut album, Quantitative Easing, ‘Still Life’ by Belfast’s Philip Quinn AKA Gross Net is a song that wrestles dark tidings and psychic pain in impervious fashion. With its creeping Numan-esque bass-synth climb and stark drum machine patterns, a perfect maelstrom of noise is woven across the song’s masterfully suffocating six-and-a-bit minutes. Check out Autumn Andel’s new video for the single below and make sure to check out Quantitative Easing via Belfast imprint Touch Sensitive.

  • Watch: BARQ – Bear

    February 8, 2017 - By 

    Having been tipped from many corners for big things in 2017, Dublin’s BARQ commanded our attention early last year with their slick debut single ‘Gentle Kind of Lies’. A busy, increasingly impressive year followed, culminating in the release of ‘Bear’, a single – their strongest to date – confronting themes of loss and coming of age. Recorded at Westland Studios by Alwyn John Walker, mixed by Scott Hallidy and mastered by Andrei Eremin, the single now has a visual accompaniment courtesy of Crooked Gentlemen. Dig it below.