The Ballymun punk-jazz band’s new song is giving D’Angelo from Dublin vibes.
‘I Hope You’re Ready’ features fellow Irish artist F3Mii and will feature on the band’s upcoming EP Black’s Law on October 29th on FAMM – “a visceral exploration of faith, political disillusionment, and the volatility of human nature.”
The tune is a vibey R&B track with undercurrents of synth chiptune pings under the song’s emotionally pushing soul vocals with nods to the electronic soul of James Blake towards the end of the track.
Also featured on the EP are previously shared songs ‘go get that blade’ and ‘is é a locht a laghad’.
Bricknasty Live gigs
- 08 Nov – Iceland Airwaves, Reykjavík, Iceland
- 11 Nov – Paradiso Upstairs, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 13 Nov – Fifty Lab, Brussels, Belgium
- 14 Nov – La Boule Noire, Paris, France
- 18 Nov – Oporto, Leeds, United Kingdom
- 19 Nov – Soup, Manchester, United Kingdom
- 20 Nov – Patterns, Brighton, United Kingdom
- 22 Nov – Village Underground, London, United Kingdom
- 25 Nov – Limelight 2, Belfast, Northern Ireland
- 27 Nov – Kasbah, Limerick, Ireland
- 28 Nov – Mike The Pies, Listowel, Ireland
- 29 Nov – Roisin Dubh, Galway, Ireland
- 03 Dec – Cyprus Avenue, Cork, Ireland
- 04 Dec – The Vic, Tramore, Ireland
- 06 Dec – 3Olympia, Dublin, Ireland
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The band also won Best Independent Video at last night’s AIM Awards in London for their song ‘vinland’.
Black’s Law defines the band’s present moment – a radical reset forged in six months of touring, falling out, reconciliation, and total creative immersion. With much of the mixtape built DIY-style in makeshift studios and B&Bs on the Irish border, it captures the volatile alchemy between Fatboy and producer/multi-instrumentalist Cillian McCauley, the band’s spiritual and sonic co-architect.
Bricknasty’s Black’s Law is not just a mixtape – it’s a manifesto. Politically charged, spiritually searching, and sonically untethered, it laces together Ireland’s bruised past with a fervent hope for the future. A fitting progression from the sonic experimentation found on their acclaimed 2024 mixtape ‘XONGZ አስቀያሚ ጡብ’. Here, Bricknasty strips away the excess and plunges headfirst into sonic and emotional fragmentation, letting shimmering melody give way to scorched metal tones, and rhythm sections that sway in and out of sync with the chaos. As always, frontman Fatboy leads the charge with a voice both raw and reverent, channeling a frantic beauty at the heart of disarray.
This new project arrives off the back of a triumphant live run that saw Bricknasty make their Glastonbury debut (they were hailed as one of Notion mag’s “ones to watch” at this years festival), bringing their kinetic and boundary-pushing performance to one of the world’s most revered stages. Over the past two years, they’ve shared stages with a genre-spanning list of luminaries including Coldplay (at a sold-out Croke Park), Aby Coulibaly, Loyle Carner, Nas, Ezra Collective, and André 3000, cementing their reputation as one of the most electrifying and unpredictable new live acts out of Ireland. The Dublin five-piece also recently supported Kneecap, alongside a slew of their own upcoming headline live dates across Europe. Full list can be found below.
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.
