Here’s a rundown of new releases on DSPs and physical releases in record shops this week.
Nialler9 keeps a rolling list of Irish album releases here.
Releases Index
New Albums
Lankum – Live In Dublin
A live album from the False Lankum tour recorded in Dublin’s Vicar Street across three nights last year.
O. – WeirdOs
O. are the London-based rowdy dub-jazz duo of baritone saxophonist Joseph Henwood and drummer Tash Keary and this is their debut album on Speedy Wunderground.
Hazey Haze & mankyy – SHY BOII GETS NO SWEETS
Limerick rapper and producer link up on an album that serves as “a document of life on the outskirts of society in Limerick’s Island Field.” Features Dan Walsh of Fixity and Eilis Mahon (Icebear, Girlfriend).
Love Command 0 – Integration
Jamie of Fight Like Apes & wife Bex’s Italo-disco-influenced debut album is out on famed Italo label Zyx.. Love Command O is a project inspired by a passion for 1980’s Italo Disco, New York Mutant Disco and 1980’s electronic freestyle.
Noise for Now – Vol 2
Julia Jacklin covering Catatonia? I’m in. Also features The War On Drugs, Courtney Barnett, Claud, David Byrne and Devo, Faye Webster and more.
NOISE FOR NOW is a national initiative that enables performers to connect with and financially support grassroots organizations that work in the field of Reproductive Justice including abortion access. NOISE FOR NOW is the link between touring musicians, progressive promoters, and local reproductive rights organizations in cities across the country.
exmagician – Sit Tight
Two members of Belfast band Cashier No.9 – Danny Todd and James Smith released their second album of smart psych indie pop songwriting.
Perry Blake – Death Of A Society Girl
Sligo singer and songwriter marks 26 years as a music artist. Perry has been compared to Scott Walker, Leonard Cohen and David Bowie – but his music is hard to categorise.
Stephen Roddy – Stardust Sonata
Stardust Sonata is both a tribute and lament to David Bowie in ritual ambient form. It was recorded in the winter of 2016 shortly after the release of Blackstar and Bowie’s premature death. The six tracks feature ambient soundscapes driven by electric guitars and occasional electronic elements that rise and fall in a network of interlocking waves.
Cathal Roche – Essential Tremors / Lori Goldston – Convolutions
Two albums of live improvised music on Leitrim’s Nyahh Records.
Cathal plays solo baritone, alto, soprano saxophones. Recorded at St George’s Church and Heritage Centre, Carrick on Shannon, Co Leitrim on 11th of December 2021.
In 2022 cellist Lori Goldston went on a small 4 date tour of Ireland playing in Cork, Limerick, Leitirim and Drogheda. Willie Stewart of Nyahh Records drove her on the tour and recorded each performance. With Lori’s permission, Willie edited and mixed each performance and put them together to make this album. The end result is a collection of improvisations and spontaneous moments.
Both recorded by Willie Stewart.
New EPs
Burial & Kode 9 – Phone Glow / Eyes Go Blank
‘Phoneglow’ / ‘Eyes Go Blank’ is a joint 12″ on Hyperdub that follows not long after Burial’s ‘Dreamfear’ / ‘Boy Sent From Above’ in January. ‘Phoneglow’ is the Burial track, a spectral R&B-sampling 9-minute track of true Burial stock, while ‘Eyes Go Blank’ is a 2-step jungle ambient wobbler.
AE MAK – ABC Side Baby EP
Berlin-based Irish avant pop artist Aoife McCann releases a three-track EP.
The Mary Wallopers – Home Boys Home EP
A three track collection from the Dundalk trad folk band.
Holly Munro – A Crescendo Ending EP
Dublin singer-songwriter of confessional indie-pop Holly Munro gives us the lowdown on each of the four-tracks from her new EP A Crescendo Ending, out today on Kartel Music Group.
Also released today
- Islands – What Occurs
- Joni Mitchell – The Asylum Albums 1976-1980
- Kate Nash – 9 Sad Symphonies
- Pond – Stung
- The Shacks – Big Crown Vaults Vol. 2
