James Vincent McMorrow is currently in the US, supporting BellX1 and playing CMJ (he plays with Cults, Kisses, Guards, Sun Airway and more at the Yours Truly party this Friday and the official Irish showcase tomorrow) and plugging his superb debut album Early In The Morning which will be released in January in the US and Europe through Vagrant.
Rather than neglect his homeland, McMorrow has been working on demos of new tracks all summer and two of those tracks will be released on limited 7″ through Any Other City Records very soon. The two tracks are both whoppers.
‘Red Dust’ is possibly the best song he’s ever recorded – extremely resonant piano chords and a falsetto that leads to a beautifully frantic outro.
James Vincent McMorrow – Red Dust
‘We Are Ghosts’ perfectly showcases McMorrow’s emotional timbre is perfectly matched with acoustic guitar picking, percussion and subtle backing vocals.
James Vincent McMorrow – We Are Ghosts
Beauuutiful.
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.
Early in the Morning is my favourite album of the year – and excuse me for this shameless plug – he’ll be performing live on The Tony Fenton Show next week, 28th October – on Today FM. He may even do one of the new songs 🙂
the man can do no wrong….better live!!