The best new Irish songs this week feature emerging tracks we’ve selected from artists from the island of Ireland, with more recommendations below.
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Avenue 68
Gifted Wine
Dublin-based indie band Avenue 68 impress with their new tune ‘Gifted Wine’, a head-nodding kaleidoscope of jazz, funk and R&B influences.
Avenue 68 play Whelan’s this Thursday
For similar vibes, see Cork band Projective’s latest track ‘Question’.
Thanks Mom
Teenage Sacrifice
Kildare indie-rock band Thanks Mom bring the fun shouty garage punk pop vibes along with this well-made live action and claymation video, made by Laura Dooney for the always-excellent First Cut Youth film festival in Cork.
Thanks Mom support Thumper in March in Dublin along with Babyrat.
Negro Impacto
Soft Fruit
No Irish band does it quite as smooth as Dunkdalk duop Negro Impacto as they bring their sunny vibes to bear on the breakup-hued ‘Soft Fruit’.
Their last release was the TV Dreams EP in August.
Credence
Remorse
Looking for an Irish take on that mkgee sound? Look no further than the new jam from Dublin alternative R&B artist Credence and new song ‘Remorse’ which brandishes that twilight sound that is so of the zeitgeist.
I’m really liking what Credence has been putting down lately.
Mountauk Hotel
Never Quiet
Montauk Hotel are a band who have appeared on Nialler9 over the years, and their throwback guitar indie sound is chiming more than ever with the sounds of emerging Irish music right now – shoegaze, shimmering 80s-indebted guitar music – as heard on the swirling track ‘Never Quiet’.
A new EP is forthcoming.
Carrie Baxter
Change
London-based Irish neo-soul artist Carrie Baxter has a new album called Seven out on March 11th, and she’s been teasing out tracks from it – with ‘Change’ being the latest – a bright and memorable track with percussive R&B touches underpinning Baxter’s vocal.
“This song didn’t come easily to me. It asked me to sit with my shadow self, the parts I’ve avoided, and the behaviours I’ve carried since childhood that I knew I needed to confront. For a long time, I approached healing as something to fix, almost obsessively. But as I’ve grown, I’ve realised it isn’t about fixing myself at all. It’s about walking alongside my younger self, allowing myself to feel everything, and making more conscious choices for the person I’m becoming. That’s what the chorus represents: an honest conversation with myself.”
Pixie Nova
Mars Rover
Celestial R&B pop music from Cork city’s Pixie Nova, drawing on the alt-jazz soul style of Kali Uchis, and planting her feet firmly on the terra firma of Irish emerging music.
Joshua Burnside
The Last Armchair
The Belfast-based singer-songwriter is to release It’s Not Going to be Okay, a new album inspired by the passing of his close friend Dean Jendoubi in 2024.
The song takes an inanimate every day object and attaches grief to it, using the chair’s purchase and the fact it was the last chair his friend sat in, as an identifier for adulthood, undercut by the devastating feelings that makes the author feel like a child treading in feelings of loss.
The chair purchase made Burnsides feel like an adult, but the experience of losing his friend has cut him down to size, making him feel inadequately inexperienced for living through such complexities.
It follows previous singles including ‘Something Else’.
For more extensive Irish and new music coverage, check into the Irish section for individual track features…
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Other Playlist additions this week:
- Monday’s Child – Over Again
- Annika Kilkenny – Winter on the west coast
- Projective – Question
- Rosie Carney – In My Blue
- AINM – Darlin’
- New Spectrum – If You Want It Too
- Peer Pleasure – Shed Residents
- Keanu The Pilot – Wants & Needs
- Outstraight; Beano; Panda Drey; Donkobz; No Venom – PICK & MIX
- Ordnance Survey – Monomyth
- Blimp; David Bulay – Impatient – David Bulay Remix
- Chalk – Tongue
- FL Breezy; BenValla – All On Me – Remix
- josef mac – Forever and Always
- Martha Dark – Build Them
- Double Screen – Petals
- David Kitt – i walk with seán garvey
- Malaki – Saoirse
- Kaeyan – TROY PARROTT
- DATQIDEXCEL – Irish Americano
- Basciville – Saintmaking
- Bobbi Arlo – SILENCE
- The Academic – Figure It Out
- aoif3 – Others
- Goodtime John – Crystallize
- David Geraghty – Valentine
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
