The New Irish Music Playlist is updated every week.
Featuring Curtisy, Spooklet, Long Island Sound, Crispy Jason, GaviBabyyy, $ona Blu€, Tigers Of Tin Pan.
The best emerging tracks we’ve selected from artists from the island of Ireland this week, with more playlist additions below the main list.
For more extensive Irish and new music coverage, follow our Spotify playlist or hit up the Irish section for individual track features.
Long Island Sound
Terra Nova
Rob Roche and Tim Nolan aka Long Island Sound are back with new music, after a summer of gigging, with ‘Hydra’ indicating the duo’s widescreen intentions for their new second album HYDRA to be released on Seb Wildblood’s label imprint All My Thoughts on October 30th.
‘Terra Nova’ comes in all airy pads, crisp percussive hits and wistful vocal samples. Hard not to think of Overmono and Bicep in particular when it comes to this kind of ambient dance sound at the moment, and the duo are following in the Belfast duo’s footsteps with debuting a live show in Dublin’s Centrepoint on Friday September 20th.
GaviBabyyy, $ona Blu€
PIOUS
Sri-Lankan Irish artist $ona Blu€ featured on the recent Pink Slips record, and her she is again on the alt-R&B hip-hop track ‘PIOUS’ with rapper GaviBabyyy. There’s a nice contrast between those two on the understated track.
SPOOKLET
Délicieux
Hannah Worrall’s Dublin-based electronic production project SPOOKLET released a debut EP on Friday called IN THE BELLY OF THE MOTHER, with a stated intent of seeking the comfort of the womb.
As the EP heads towards its final two tracks, the atmospherics give way to breakbeats on ‘Délicieux’, a head-spinning garage-track featuring lust-driven spoken word vocals in English and French.
Crispy Jason
Arcade Smashup
Rian Trench brings the AFX vibes to bear on the analogue acid braindance of ‘Arcade Smashup’, one of four tracks on the new Shadowcon One EP on Winthrope Electronics.
Curtisy, Flynn Johnson, Graham,
Wallfella, hikii
Tree Sap (Remix’d)
Essentially a new version of ‘Tree Sap’ from Curtisy’s What Was The Question Deluxe record (October 25th) with a beat switch from producer hikii and new verses from Flynn Johnson, Graham and Wallfella.
Curtisy plays Dublin, Belfast, London and Galway in November.
Tigers Of Tin Pan
Don’t Say You Don’t Believe In God
Songwriter John Butler (Stray Planets – a project featuring production by Rían Trench and guest vocals by Dara Kiely of Gilla Band) and recording engineer Liam Mulvaney (Gilla Band, Fionn Regan and more) put out a song under the Tigers Of Tin Pan name in 2012 but got swamped in a sea of unfinished records since.
So they decided to finally do something about it – and release this psych-pop earworm about religion. andfaith. I can almost smell the late 90s / 2000s off this one in terms of vibe, and there’s a 60s reference in the chorus to ‘Aquarius’ by The 5th Dimension.
There’s more to come with the suggestion of songs featuring vocals from Naoise Roo, Cathy Davey, Badhands and more.
For more extensive Irish and new music coverage, hit up the Irish section for individual track features…
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New Playlist additions:
- RÓIS – CAOINE
- Skinner – Tell My Ma
- Adore – Supermum!
- Bantum – Bamboo
- Bricknasty – mouthy
- Anderson – Pictures of You
- Balderdasch – Service with a Smile
- fiiVVVEE!; Joe Butler – WELL ENOUGH!
- Nessa McHugh – spring will come
- Jehnova – Old Spice
- Post Punk Podge & the Technohippies – Keep On Raving In The First World
- iNNUENDO – clear motion
- Maria Kelly – Slump
- DUO DECAD – Forever After
- Lauren Ann – WHEN THE PARTY ENDS
- Annika Kilkenny – It’s Shaped You
