Having been steadily on the ascent over the last year or so, Derry quartet The Wood Burning Savages have unveiled the typically frenetic video for their breakneck new single, ‘We Love You’. Directed by Fiachra O’Longain, the B+W accompaniment captures the four-piece at their most urgent, frontman Paul Connolly’s emphatic decrees, in particular, coming into sharp focus throughout. Half measures isn’t an option for these guys.
“All too often, women are stuck in a vicious cycle of low self-esteem, depression, eating disorders, sexual harassment and addiction as a result of negative gender stereotypes and body image oppression enforced by the patriarchal system and the media. As the dust settles on another Paddy’s day we have had a taste of what is to come as the days grow longer. This video depicts a snapshot of an inebriated adventure around a sunny Dublin city. The song is like the stream of thought of the wild spirit who tries to negotiate the issues related to this cycle within the confines…
It’s safe to say 17-year-old Dubliner Sam Ojo is a hip-hop artist with confidence and flow beyond years. Produced by Ignorvnce, his new single ‘So Pro’ is, in spite of being under two minutes in length, a heady, intent-drenched throwdown that doubles as something of a statement of intent from the hugely-promising wordsmith. The latest release as part of the new-fangled Word Up Collective – also featuring the likes of Damola, Katie Laffan, Anti-One and Stay Gold – watch the video for the track, directed by Steven BeatSmith, below.
Almost a year on from the release of their debut EP, Argento Nights, Dublin experimental electronic trio Everything Shook have returned with new single ‘Bed Stain’. Propelled by warping, skittering synth lines and chopping rhythms, the track – recorded and mixed at 6611 Studios in Brooklyn, New York -finds Robyn Bromfield, Jessica Kennedy and Áine Stapleton in dauntless spirits, both audibly and visually. A song about “mistakes, regret and the morning after the night before”, the video for the track – directed by the band – “unfolds between two locations, juxtaposing sombre scenes of the morning with flashbacks of disenchantment, discord…
Whilst perhaps currently more recognisable under the guise of Best Boy Grip, Derry singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Eoin O’Callaghan also makes music as part of Wake America. Seemingly born with the knack of a million burrowing melodies at his disposal, O’Callaghan’s latest single under the Wake America moniker, ‘Silly Boy’ (or “City Boy” as we occasionally/wrongly hear) makes for a synth-soaked, deceptively simple four-minutes. Written, produced, mixed and mastered by O’Callaghan, ‘Silly Boy’ will be available on Limited Edition 7″ vinyl from March 4 via Amelia Records. Pre-order your copy here.
Formerly known as GOODTIME/Goodtime John, Dublin “alternative electronic experimental folk” singer-songwriter J. Cowhie has played shows and toured with (deep breath) Bonnie Prince Billy, Smog, Mount Eerie, Cass McCombs, White Magic, Television, Midlake, Bright Eyes, M. Ward, John Grant, Warpaint, Grandaddy, Richard Hawley, Múm, Richard Swift, Little Wings, The American Analog Set, Micah P. Hinson, Mark Kozelek and Giant Sand (to name a few). An artist of wonderfully subtle persuasion, he has re-emerged with the soothing groove of new single ‘Long Way Home’. Taken from the forthcoming album, Veil, its rather charming video was shot and edited by John B. McKenna. Veil is released via RITE…
Having first streamed it back in September last year, the exquisite ‘In Time’ by Cork singer-songwriter and producer Eoin French AKA Talos has been brought to life via what should probably be commonly referred to as the Feel Good Lost treatment. Speaking about video for the track, FGL’s Brendan Canty said, “It is an abstract portrayal of searching for a lost love, clinging onto memories and doing everything you can to save it.” Wonderfully mirroring lyrics including, “I was loved and now that loves lost I know they’ll never find us/Way out amongst the madness I feel free” Canty summons an arcane world in which every movement…
A dark and charging effort from the South by Southwest-bound Dublin five-piece, September Girls have re-emerged with new single ‘Love No One’. Pretty much exactly what we’d imagine the opening theme from a revenge horror re-imaging of a spaghetti Western to sound like, it’s a wonderfully tempestuous cut taken from their forthcoming album, Age of Indignation, which is set for released on April 8. Check out the suitably baleful video for the single, courtesy of the band’s vocalist and lead guitarist Jessie Ward O’Sullivan, below.
A sublime three-minute of quick cuts and ecstatic late-summer intoxication, Michael Robinson’s video for ‘Wild Flowers’ by Dublin duo Solar Bears is the culmination of months of shooting footage on both 16mm and 8mm film in the Mid-Atlantic region of America. Running parallel with the track’s conjuring of an clarion dreamland far beyond, its footage wonderfully juts around a veritable Shangri-La of perfect Summertime abandon. Musically, the track more than delivers; Solar Bears through and through, its bubbling, synth-heavy electronica is as prismatic and sorcerous as ever. With fresh warping textures emerging and warping on every bar, it feels as much a swift exploration as its visuals.…
The first release as part of the Word Up Collective – a new-fangled Dublin collective with a particular penchant for Irish hip-hop, pop, soul and R&B – ‘WorkFlow’ by Dublin’s Damola reveals an artist that has come on leaps and bounds since he started rapping back in 2008 before formed Backshed Inc. a quartet that includes Sam Ojo, Ange MC and video director Steven Beatsmith. Written in his bedroom and Dublin’s 25A bus, the track is a preview from Damola’s forthcoming ChildLIKE Mentality EP, a song that professes to give “an insight into his struggle in finding balance between dream chasing and making a living while…