‘Ruh Roh’ features Ushmush & Roo Honeychild.
The prolific Dublin-based producer Rory Sweeney is to release an exploratory full-length called Old Earth on October 24th.
The record features contributions from Curtisy, UshMush, Julia Louise Knifefist, Roo Honeychild, EMBY, Emily Beattie, Celine Starling, Saoirse Miller, RÓIS & Ristéard Ó hAodha on previously released ‘Entrance Places’.
‘Ruh Roh’ features Ennis-based Aran Islands rapper Ushmush and Dublin-based Club Comfort DJ and producer Roo Honeychild, and is decidedly more of a banger than the opening track ‘Entrance Places’.
‘Ruh Roh’ is one of the songs that stood out at the OUCH gig in the Complex, an “as Gaeilge” Irish language banger drawing on bass music and upbeat club break sounds with Ushmush delectable Irish rap style.
The video for ‘Ruh Roh’ is out today and was directed by Irish visual artist Diarmuid Farrell, with help from animator Jonathan Theobold.
In the video, Ushmush rides an ox through a humorous post-apocalyptic Irish wasteland, filled with references to Irish folklore. His body is only visible as a surveillance heat map as he passes telephone poles and mountains, his body and the backgrounds morphing and glitching into abstract shapes and images. This follows the animated music video for ‘Entrance Places’ the first single from the album released in May 2025 in collaboration with animators Tom Kelly & Madeline Hadd, which again portrayed an unsettling otherworld that a young boy falls into after he wakes up to find that everyone in the world has fallen into a deep sleep.
The album is out on October 24th and is available on vinyl via Bandcamp on -pre-order now.
The album won’t be available on Spotify.
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.
