Or say hello to your new favourite Irish band.
Thanks to labels like The Richter Collective and the autonomous sphere of bands around the country making brilliant and mostly loud guitar music again (Adebisi Shank, ASIWYFA, Bats, Not Squares – to name a few) we can now add Dublin’s brilliantly-titled The Cast of Cheers to that list.
They’ve released their debut album Chariot via Bandcamp for FREE DOWNLOAD with a physical release coming in April. The album is a fully-formed 33-minute blast of post-punk, looping post-rock, tightly-wound songs with echoes of touchstones like Battles, Foals and Death From Above 1979.
It’s so good you’d wonder where this band appeared from? Some of them were involved in the band Abam so they’re not total newbies. Chariot is a breath of fresh air from a band I didn’t even know existed seven days ago. They’ll be supporting Super Extra Bonus Party in Andrew’s Lane Theatre on the 26th of February alongside Nakatomi Towers, Enemies and more.
Download their album now. Here’s 10 reasons why you should.
The Cast of Cheers – Chariot by richtercollective
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.
WOW my new favourite band…..fucking genius
This is a great album to bounce my tits to!
cannot stop listening to the album ,ill say it again
FUCKING GENIUS 🙂
Loving this album – yet another good reason to go on Feb 26th!
finally go round to listening to the album tonight, Flippin genius in places. They sound well suited to a spoit on the sebp bill. Hopefully i will get a chance to see them soon
Top class Niall – never heard of these before, They really remind me of Foals on some of the songs, good stuff.
too bad the band name was already taken
in 2005
Interesting.. Nialler 9.. Do you not do their live Visuals?
That used to be Super Extra Bonus Party Gadget – get with the programme.
TCOC don’t have visuals live as far as I’ve seen.