The New Irish Music Playlist is updated every week.
Featuring Travy, Tayne, Pebbledash, Cordless, Neosupervital, SX2.
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.
Travy
EUROSTAR (with Reggie, Yvnnis)
Travy fka Travis takes charge in his solo guise on the new mixtape Spooky.
Travis & Elzzz made headlines last year who had the first ever Irish rap album at #1 in the Irish album charts.
Spooky is full of world-building drill music that reaches for the atmospheric cinematic of Travis Scott’s Astroworld. Producer Liam Harris is at the helm once more as on Doghouse, and ‘Eurostar’ is a continental straddling rap track that features Gliders cohort Reggie and Parisian rapper Yvnnis
Pebbledash
Slowly Slowly
Six-piece alternative rock band Pebbledash’s final single from their upcoming Four Portraits of the Same Ugly House EP (January 31st) brandishes dark guitar tones and an eerie atmosphere to a shoegaze crescendo.
“Slowly slowly is a song about the desire to belong, be seen, and in many ways the selfishness of needing recognition….. recorded in complete darkness in an attempt to capture that feeling of isolation and translate it to the music Slowly Slowly jumps between catharsis and ;onging, it is our statement of the ‘beautiful ugly’ the things you want but know you shouldn’t and the heartbreak when things don’t happen like how you dream.”
Catch them at the Next Big Thing in Dublin next week.
Upcoming tour dates:
Jan 22nd – The Next Big Thing Festival, Workman’s Club, Dublin
January 29th – The Social, London (w/ So Young)
Feb 9th – The Hope & Ruin, Brighton
Feb 10th – The Elephants Head, London
Mar 28th – Dolans, Limerick (Howlers Support)
Mar 29th – Whelan’s, Dublin (Howlers Support)
Mar 30th – Ulster Sport’s Club, Belfast (Howlers Support)
Neosupervital
Factory Presets
The return of Tim O’Donovan to his electro-synth pop project Neosupervital (Tim was making music in the genre before electro-pop was cool again).
When not drumming with Keeley and Bell X1 (or his previous duo of Buffalo Woman), Tim has made a third Neosupervital album called Transporter out this year.
‘Factory Presets’ is a slower number from what you might expect, indicative of a change of mindset.
“I suppose the overall theme of the song is that you can change destructive patterns of behaviour and thinking if you put your mind to it. It was one of the first songs I wrote for the new album so the lyrics were me noting that it was a new beginning, and not to worry too much about the passing of time. They were me noting that my brain workings had changed somewhat since I last sat down to write a tune, a bit more self-awareness and a lot less ego hopefully. It’s one of the slowest tunes I’ve written. I deliberately brought the pace down a notch or two on this album, and this song in particular, for a more spacious, unhurried feel.”
SX2
Soul For Sale
Scott and Clive Sullivan aka SX2 are the Waterford dancefloor spinners who recently shared some of our favourites with us.
Their latest single is a soul-disco sampling wonder with Caribou feels on the Disco Halal label.
Tayne
Scars
Bringing a sludgy metal feel to proceedings, London-based Dublin noise-rock industrialists Tayne are the closest Ireland has to the band HEALTH.
‘Scars’ is the band’s latest single, released ahead of their debut album Love on January 31st.
Cordless
When I Fall Asleep
Cordless’ first single featured on Nialler9, and the Youghal duo keep up their vibe of doing things a little differently on their second single with the minimal trip-hop dub of ‘When I Fall Asleep’.
For more extensive Irish and new music coverage, check into the Irish section for individual track features…
For this and more Irish songs, follow the Nialler9 New Irish Spotify playlist.
New Playlist additions:
- SPOOKLET – SILENCE FROID
- Skinner – Sour Milk
- lxverboy; sagelike. – Infinity – Remix
- Makeshift Art Bar – Bedwetter
- Travy; Yvnnis; Reggie – EUROSTAR
- Tayne – Scars
- seantommy; Colin Walsh – vexed
- Pesci Tooth; Pippa Molony – Safeforme
- Matthew Xavier Corrigan – salt
- Ginnels – Lands Faraway
- Lucy Gaffney – peaches
- Jordan Adetunji; kwn – Too Many Women (feat. kwn)
- ELLLL – Titan
- Polytunnel – Dying of The Light
- Jehnova – Is What It Is
- Leo Miyagee; Eulogy – BILLS
- Cace! – act 2
- svhymns; yeire13 – afters
- Ahmed, With Love.; Curtisy; Kylté – Bronco Loko.
- S.E.M.I – Survive
- jena keating; Lawriii Craic – Curtains
- Stephen James Smith; Wallis Bird – We’ll All Rise
- Tom Gato – Oileán
- FAXE ON FAXE – FALL TO THE CALL
- Jordan Nocturne – Get Into It – Extended version
- MMODE; Lucy Gaffney; Thom Southern – You Keep Me Wanting More
- YourCuzMarcus – Overstay
- kelz; Strange Boy – paddyenglishpaddyirish
- Cromby – House Flava
- Cartin – Badboi
- Keanu The Pilot – chill guy
- Zoé Basha; Anna Mieke; Aina Tulier – Three Little Babes
- Olive Hatake – GLUE
- Blimp – Everynight
- Ryan Vail – Why
- cyrtra – ifínᚘ
- MOIO – Moments
- MMMouth – I give it all to you
- Kean Kavanagh – The Portlaoise Queen
- SLOUCHO – Power Plant
- James Vincent McMorrow – Rent California
- Vaticanjail – ANGEL
- Midnight Wayne – Then You’ll Arrive
- Annie-Dog – The Feeling in My Fingertips
- Tabitha Smyth – 45 Minutes
- Melina Malone – If I Have to Change
- StrangeLove; Duke Dimez – Brb
- svhymns – InsectZ+DR+gs
- FIN. – Clouds
- cbakl; SOLOMON – HOLDING MY SOUL
- Pat Lagoon; F3miii – REPLY
- Onion Boys – Frankie Rashers
- Greg Tisdall – nosebleeds
- Brigid Mae Power – You Don’t Know Me
