Also featuring headfooters, Luthorist, Jehnova, Visionali.
The best new Irish songs this week feature emerging tracks we’ve selected from artists from the island of Ireland, with more playlist additions below the main list.
Explore the best new Irish songs alongside our curated playlist for the week.
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headfooters
feral
Fizzy Dublin hyperpop music? Yeah go on so.
‘feral’ is the big neon boom of a debut single from Dublin electronic duo headfooters, who is producer Eric Fitzgerald (qwasi, Bad Soup Records, DDR), with the vocals and lyrics written by Sadhbh Fitzgerald (DHBH).
The pair previously worked together on Bad Soup Records but wanted to explore their mutual love of trashy and experimental music.
The name headfooters means ‘a simplistic representation of a human-like figure without a torso and sometimes various limbs, usually drawn by a child’.
We wanted to bring this sense of childlike wonder into our music and if possible make the music feel nostalgic particularly for the games we played growing up in the 90s/00s.
Bricknasty
Go Get That Blade
Having announced their biggest hometown show yet, Bricknasty dropped the head-spinning wobbly alternative R&B of ‘Go Get That Blade’, the latest track in the Dublin band’s increasingly sonically-varied output. It’s punk as fuck.
cabl
uh oh
A grand return for Dublin band Cabl whose new song ‘uh Oh’ trades in fine shoegaze and alt-rock textures with underlying acoustic elements, very much taking advantage of the quiet-loud dynamic.
It’s the first track produced by guitarist Luke White, with drums recorded by Chris Ryan (Just Mustard, New Dad) and a mix from Dan Fox (Gilla Band, sprints).
Previous songs we’ve released have mostly been written by Ava and we arrange them as a band. “uh oh” was the first tune we worked on that reflects how a lot of new music we’re doing is coming together. Someone can bring a few parts and a structural idea forward and we all work it out together. Writing songs this way seemed to yield quiet different and much heavier results, so a change in production style seemed necessary.”
Luke White
Cabl play Ireland Music Week this October, along with All Together Now and Vantastival.
JayHadADream
The Bank
Irish Jamaican singer JayHadADream won the Glastonbury Emerging Talent last year, and here drops in with a UKG rap banger, all silky and summery to boot.
Jay says:
“‘The Bank’ is “destined for festival season, The Bank is a skippy, catchy, garage tune that has that bounce I grew up loving. The lyrics come from a very real place. I was thinking about time, pressure, self-worth, and how people move when you’re focused on your own lane. Zdot and Krunchie came through with the production—it’s clean but still gritty, and it gave me space to just talk my talk. Some of the bars are playful, some are personal, but it all ties back to the hook. It’s about knowing your value, even when others don’t.”
Luthorist, Jehnova, Visionali
Stars Aligned
Dangerous Currents is a joint album between luthorist, Jehnova, and VISIONALI, speaks on themes of transformation, resilience, and creative maturity.
The album was made over 5 months, with production, mixing and mastering by luthorist, and guest verses from Osaka-born Dublin transplant Zimback and Dublin rapper Beano too.
It’s the kind of release that you could pick any track from to vibe with as an example, but ‘Stars Align’ has that combustible buzz to it that speaks to me.
Big Sleep
Ruminate
Superlative indie from rising Irish Italian band Big Sleep who are back after recent track ‘Pick A Cheek’ and headlining the Button Factory last year and who have a big tour planned as per the poster below.
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Other Playlist additions this week:
- For Those I Love – No Scheme
- Poor Creature – Bury Me Not
- Rún – Strike It
- Fish Go Deep; Elaine Dowling – Are You In This With Me?
- Blue Slate – Melody in Melancholy
- Alex Gough – The Bends
- Adrian Crowley; Matthew Nolan; Lisa Hannigan – Alone
- Archy Moor – Robbery Rings
- Hamer Place – All That I Knew Was Blue
- Beauty Sleep – BIG + BAD
- donny.; Filmore! – dreemr.
- Daire Patel – HALO
- David Keenan – Stay Still
- Sharkett – Shy
- GNS – UNTIL YOU S4ID SORRY
- thanks mom – Graces Passport
- Patricia Lalor – To must erupt
- Sean McKeon – The Salamanca/ Trim the Velvet
- 7th Obi – Geminii
- Bren Berry; Rory Sweeney – WE HAVE IT ALL – RORY SWEENEY REMIX
- Vaticanjail – MIEL
- NewDad – Roobosh
- KiiKO – July
- The Expert; Defcee; Jehst – Remember the Summer
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, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
