• Watch: Hilary Woods – Sabbath

    July 14, 2016 - By 

    Back in May, ex-JJ72 bassist and solo artist Hilary Woods released easily one of our favourite Irish of the tracks of the year in the form of ‘Bathing‘. Following on in perfectly sanguine repose, ‘Sabbath’ – the second track taken from her forthcoming Heartbox EP – is a masterfully meditative six-minute effort from the Dublin musician, melding sparse rhythms with a serene fog of softly swirling piano lines, synth and more. Accompanied by wonderful visuals courtesy of Joshua Wright, it’s a spectral combo that burrows deep. Heartbox is released on 7″ vinyl on Monday, July 18. Pre-order here.

  • Watch: New Gods – Thrilled By Death

    June 29, 2016 - By 

    Having previously been featured as one of our 15 for ’15 in our magazine over a year ago, visceral Dublin punk group New Gods have emerged from their self imposed silence to release their new single Thrilled By Death, accompanied by a video created by Fh’yll at Moonbase Orlok. Watch as a band of skeletons get thrashed on beer with a suitably scuzzy VHS artifact effect. newgodsofpunk.bandcamp.com  

  • Watch: The Shaker Hymn – Another One of You

    June 23, 2016 - By 

    Few Irish bands manage to marry throwback and contemporary quite so convincingly as Cork five-piece The Shaker Hymn. Another earworming effort once more confirming the band’s ear for cunning composition and a killer chorus, their new single ‘Another One of You’ “reflects a deep romanticism often attributed to Dublin, but hidden away in beautiful Cork.” Curious words at a first glance but just one listen to their new single reveals the inner workings of those reflections on personal placement and identity in clear, sublime fashion. ‘Another One of You’ is the third track to be taken from the band’s second album,…

  • Watch: Girl Band – In Plastic

    June 21, 2016 - By 

    Surrealism is no unbeaten path for Girl Band, and the latest video from the Dublin noise-rock darlings, as usual directed by long-time collaborator Bob Gallagher, takes matters in a much more grimly funny direction. Set in a security line, somewhere, someplace, the video for ‘In Plastic’ mirrors in Gallagher’s inimitable manner the current paranoia around borders, travel, and security, as things quickly unravel for our nameless protagonist. Speaking with Spin mag in the States, Gallagher expands on its themes: “the video is obviously totally ridiculous in many ways, but it touches on themes of surveillance, paranoia, and how arbitrary the…

  • Watch: BAD BONES – WORSHIP

    May 26, 2016 - By 

    Featured in the current issue of our physical magazine (available throughout the country now), Dublin producer and visual artist Sal Stapleton AKA BAD BONES first caught our attention back back in March with ‘Games’, a track that we called “a delicious slice of darkly electronica weaving perfectly-spliced beats, bobbing bass and modulated vocals in a fine, cimmerian mesh of noise.” Having since enthralled at the second installment of Psykick Dancehall – our Bello Bar night co-hosted with Medium Presents – in April, Stapleton is back with her another audio-visual gem in the form of ‘WORSHIP’, the fifth and final track to be taken from her…

  • Watch: Hilary Woods – Bathing

    May 25, 2016 - By 

    As we saw in her Track Record piece in the tenth issue of our physical magazine, ex-JJ72 bassist and solo artist Hilary Woods is an artist with a wonderfully diverse taste in music, a fact very keenly reflected her debut EP, Night. Set to release its highly-anticipated follow-up EP, Heartbox, on June 10, her single ‘Bathing’ is a quietly rapt masterstroke about “that feeling of waiting forever”, a sentiment captured with minimalist panache in its accompanying video, directed by Woods herself and filmed at both Dublin Zoo and Co. Wicklow’s rather beautiful Glendalough one “very cold morning” back in January. With more dates to be announced soon, Woods plays…

  • Watch: Glimmermen – Bang

    May 24, 2016 - By 

    “With refreshingly intelligent guitar work evoking both Television and Maps and Atlases, the four tracks on Satellite People are perhaps best surmised in the title track, a tidy hybrid of Mission of Burma circa Signals, Calls and Marches EP, Pop Group and early Captain Beefheart.” So read our time-confirmed verdict (in our previous guise of AU Magazine) of Satellite People, the debut EP by Dublin’s Glimmermen way back in 2012. Four years on – and three years since the release of their impressive debut album I’m Dead – the band have re-emerged with a new single, ‘Bang’. Taken from their forthcoming second album,…

  • Watch: Saint Sister – Madrid

    May 17, 2016 - By 

    Having formed in 2014, Irish folk-pop duo Gemma Doherty and Mortan MacIntyre AKA Saint Sister have covered considerable ground recently. With their very well-received debut EP Madrid recorded in a short, “intense” session with Alex Ryan of Hozier, the release’s title track has been granted a sublime visual accompaniment courtesy of Bob Gallagher featuring lead Orla MacIntyre and some wonderfully rugged Irish countryside. Saint Sister play the following UK date in May. May 16: Gaslight Club, Leeds May 17: The Louisiana, Bristol May 18: The Islington, London May 20: The Green Door Store, The Great Escape Festival, Brighton (8pm) May 21: The…

  • Watch: StopTheWheel – ShakeUp

    May 17, 2016 - By 

    How many ‘Campfire R&B’ artists can you think of off the top of your head? It’s a curious sonic genus, after all, and one that appears to be exclusive to Italian avant-pop explorer StopTheWheel AKA Francesco Candura. Taken from the (we hope and pray) Danny-Glover-in-Lethal Weapon-referencing Too Old For This Shit – an EP which be released via Dublin’s Little Gem Records on Friday, May 20 – ‘ShakeUp’ is his latest single. Accompanied by a video by Gustav Willeit, it’s all a bit tUnE-yArDs meets Royal Trux, Candura’s pitched vocals, 4-track production and measured acoustic patterns merging to create something that can only be described as borderline dangerously catchy.

  • Watch: No Monster Club – Drinking at the Doldrums

    May 17, 2016 - By 

    With an opening theme sounding Metronomy jamming Daniel Johnston’s ‘Some Things Last A Long Time’ after one too many hours drifting on a carousel, ‘Drinking at the Doldrums’ is quintessential No Monster Club. Doubling up “the official No Monster Club video game – the world’s first ‘choose your own adventure’ moment in which you are given no options whatsoever” features NMC himself Bobby Aherne foraging and possibly getting a little lost in a forest. As for the track itself? You’ll be humming it for years. Probably.