The Dublin duo of Lisa Canny and Niamh Hinchy release new track ‘P Stands For Paddy’ and announce their debut EP for the label, out 31 July.
Absolute Lilt have signed to Heavenly Recordings and shared their first track for the label, ‘P Stands For Paddy’, along with details of their debut EP Criostal, a seven-track release out digitally on July 31st.
The duo, made up of Lisa Canny and Niamh Hinchy, are also members of BIIRD, the all-female Irish trad collective. Their music centres on lilting, one of Ireland’s oldest vocal traditions, and ‘P Stands For Paddy’ takes the tradition somewhere genuinely modern, a swirling, hypnotic track that puts two exceptional voices together and lands somewhere between Balearic and deeply, unmistakably Irish.
Watch ‘P Stands For Paddy:
The song comes with a video directed by Olivia McLaughlin, featuring comedian Mike Rice, recent podcast guest Kate Nash as a judge, and presenter Doireann Ní Ghlacáin. The concept is built around a fictional pageant called “The Fairest Man”, riffing on the Father Ted ‘Lovely Girls Competition’ and flipping the gaze with plenty of absurdist humour.
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The duo said:
“Lilting is nonsense, quite literally. For the music video we wanted to capture the essence of Irish nonsense at its best so we created ‘The Fairest Man’ concept, inspired by Ireland’s love for a kitsch and very-country pageant. Think Father Ted in 2026!”
Director McLaughlin added: “Getting to collaborate with Lisa and Niamh on something funny, sexy, and with a healthy dose of Irish specificity, I said yes immediately. There’s a real hilarity and absurdity to how enthusiastically we reward men for being completely average, and we had a lot of fun pulling that apart.”
The self-produced Criostal EP tracklisting is:
- Ink Banshees
- P Stands For Paddy
- The Polkas
- Nead Na Lachan
- Monaghan Twig
- John McHughs
- Dreaming In Lilt.
Absolute Lilt play Beyond The Pale in Wicklow on 14 June and St Pancras Old Church in London on October 29th later this year.
