A music blog from Ireland.
Monday, November 5th, 2012
Today marks the release of Friends Without Names, the debut album from Clockwork Orchestra – aka Paul Mangan – on UK-based White Label Music. A video was released last week in the form of Paper Purse and I really like it. There’s no message, just a simple tableau of scraps and shapes of paper pleasantly
Tuesday, October 16th, 2012
A band I first heard last year and was immediately taken with, OCHO are vocalist Stace Gill and producer DOS. This video is for Young Hunting, the title track from their debut album which was...
Tuesday, October 9th, 2012
Feast your eyes on the spectacle of nature, through the medium of music by way of the marvels of technology. It’s BATS, baying as a pack in the wilds of Connemara, back with the first single Wolfwrangler...
Friday, September 28th, 2012
Yesterday Villagers tweeted that the new Anderson song was stuck in his head. This morning this video for Patterns showed up on my feed, and of course my curiosity was piqued after the ringing endorsement from Conor...
Wednesday, September 26th, 2012
In the wake of an amazing reaction to the new single The Waves come the full details of Villagers’ second album. Titled {Awayland} it’s released on Domino Records on 11 January 2013. So I sit down at...
Tuesday, September 25th, 2012
Ooer. This trailer for The Hatch is a tease and really not enough. The point, I guess! The blurb goes straight to my heart: “an eerie ‘folk sci-fi’ telling the story of a fisherman and his son...
Monday, September 24th, 2012
With all the new music that gets sent in, there’s an invisible stack of things I want to buy and the Melting Cavalry album by Seti The First definitely belongs on the latter. Lush arrangements of empoweringly...
Monday, September 10th, 2012
Something special from And So I Watch You From Afar. A tour video from their recent stint in China that documents their travels halfway across the world to give China some of that face-melting rapture. And China...
Friday, September 7th, 2012
shapeyfiend: sertone: Jee4ce – Tribal Instinct my big bro @jee4ce is one of my favourite rappers. hearing someone this good rapping in your own accent is inspirational. True dat. Can’t wait for the new EP. Really...