• Watch: The Altered Hours – Over The Void

    February 8, 2018 - By 

    The second single taken from their forthcoming EP On My Tongue, ‘Over The Void’ by Cork five-piece The Altered Hours is a swirling blitz of gnarling haze from a band who continue to break brilliant new territory. Directed by Helio Leon, with cinematography from Izabela Szczutkowska & Leon, editing by Afghaniscan (Robert Watson) and creative input/style from Sarah Corcoran, the single’s video is a suitably abstracted, lysergic-laced accompaniment to a short song that really rewards the repeated listen. On My Tongue is released for Art For Blind/Penske on March 9. The Altered Hours will play the following dates over the next three…

  • Watch: All the Luck in the World – Contrails

    February 1, 2018 - By 

    All The Luck In The World are set to release their third album The Blind Arcade on February 23. The Berlin-based Irish trio formed in 2011 and have since developed quite the following both at home and abroad thanks to their brand of atmospheric, emotional alternative-folk and carefully crafted stories. ‘Contrails’ is the third track to be shared from the album and once again shows the band’s increasing maturity and dedication to their craft. Like ‘Landmarks’ and ‘Golden October’ before it, ‘Contrails’ invokes the likes of Frightened Rabbit, Mutual Benefit and Little Green Cars in its execution of a acoustic pop sensibilities without any corners cut…

  • Watch: Loah – Unveiled

    January 27, 2018 - By 

    Loah has shared the video for ‘Unveiled’, taken from one of our top EPs of 2017, This Heart. Directed by Ellius Grace and choreographed by Jade O’Connor , the video stars Uchenna Chukwudinma and was filmed in London and The Sally Gap. The video seems to document a slow, determined odyssey toward freedom and space as Chukwudinma walks away from the bustling, suffocating city and into the windy majesty of nature to be welcomed by a small community’s embrace. It’s a perfect pairing with one of the most subtly affecting songs from This Heart, a stripped back affair with Loah’s voice being accompanied by the ever-wonderful Niwel Tsumbu who featured…

  • Watch: Kojaque – Bubby’s Cream [Prod. jar jar jr]

    January 26, 2018 - By 

    Kojaque has shared his first new music since last year’s raucous ‘Wificode’. The Dublin rapper/producer and founding member of the Soft Boy Records collective is in typically reflective, honest form on the gorgeous ‘Bubby’s Cream’, produced by fellow softboy Jar Jar Jr.  The single is taken from his forthcoming Deli Daydreams EP, set for release on 23 February which documents the week in the life of a deli worker. “The project meanders through the daydreams of KOJAQUE, the main protagonist, as he contemplates love, life and loneliness in the lead up to the annual work Christmas party,” the MC, real name Kevin Smith explains. “The…

  • Premiere: Alana Henderson – Let This Remain (Live at the Telegraph Building)

    January 25, 2018 - By 

    Released in November last year, ‘Let This Remain’ by Alana Henderson perfectly distils the Belfast-based cellist and singer-songwriter’s carefully-composed, wonderfully idiosyncratic craft. Revealing the nuance and intimate nature of the song is a new video courtesy of Belfast photographer and filmmaker Joe Laverty. Directed and edited by Laverty – with additional camera work from Jude McCaffrey and Sharon Whittaker, and colour grading from Malachy Campbell – the video features Henderson performing the song with accompaniment from Pleasure Beach’s Alan Haslam at the Belfast Telegraph building, a stark, towering space that has since been reawakened as a venue. Unsurprisingly, the performance is nothing short of utterly…

  • Watch: David Kitt – Still Don’t Know

    January 16, 2018 - By 

    Six days on from his New Jackson project being nominated for this year’s Choice Music Prize, David Kitt has returned with the title track from his upcoming four-track 10″ EP. Described by Kitt as “a travelogue within a dream, a jump-cut journey that crosses the globe. It’s one of those dreams you don’t want to wake from, where you want to go back under to piece the finer details together” it’s a soothing, typically stellar effort from the Dublin musician, accompanied with a pretty, wonderfully inspired by New York-based director/animator Lessa Millet. Kitt plays the following shows in Ireland and the UK…

  • Watch: Malojian – Battery

    November 28, 2017 - By 

    A wonderfully propulsive peak from his new album, Let Your Weirdness Carry You Home, ‘Battery’ by Stephen Scullion’s Malojian perfectly distills the forward-moving nature of his craft as of late. Blending guitar, keys, shuddering strings, Motorik groove and more, it makes for a kaleidoscopic blast of psych-tinged alt-folk across four minutes. Sealing the deal is Colm Laverty’s typically engrossing video, the latest in a string of visuals accompaniments to Scullion’s music, created as part of BFI’s Britain on Film series. Catch Malojian at the following shows over the next few days. November 28: Campbell’s Tavern, Galway November 29: The Washerwoman, Ballina December 1: Coughlan’s Cork December…

  • Watch: Silences – L.A

    November 24, 2017 - By 

    Set to play alongside Orchid Collective at Belfast’s Bar Sub tonight, Armagh five-piece Silences have unveiled their new single, ‘L.A’. A strong and typically earworming alt-indie effort from the Conchúr White, it shows the band moving into more full-bodied, electric territory, and is something of a departure from their more acoustic efforts of yore. Accompanied by their most pro visuals to date – courtesy of director Julian Moore Cooke – White said the track stemmed from a realisation Stateside: “I’m proud of the work that has been put in to get to this point and I like that a development can be heard in our catalogue. L.A…

  • Watch: Wastefellow – Enfold You

    November 22, 2017 - By 

    Dublin producer Diolmhain Ingram-Roche AKA Wastefellow has returned with one of his strongest efforts to date, ‘Enfold You’. Featuring visuals from Flann Manning, the single – which is a four-minute traipse of shuffling beats,  thick bass and floaty electronica patterns – is the first in a new series of tracks that Ingram-Roche  aims to put out between now and next Summer. Speaking more about the track, he said: “‘Enfold You’ began as an attempt to write a pop song from somebody who doesn’t necessarily appreciate a lot of pop music. As these pop ideals filtered through my own experiences and workflow, they began…

  • Watch: The Sunshine Factory – Cruelest Animal

    November 20, 2017 - By 

    Cork’s The Sunshine Factory have steadily earned their reputation as one of the country’s very finest cosmically-inclined propositions. Having shared the stage with the likes of K-X-P and the Orange Kyte, the five-piece will release their highly-anticipated new EP, Cruelest Animal, at Cork’s Crane Lane on November 30. Released today, the title track from the release distils the essence of their neo-psych craft to a tee. A five-minute miasma of hazed-out, slow-burning psych, the song has been granted a whole new dimension of potency via visuals courtesy of For Eyes Creatives. We’re all over this – expect big things from these guys in…