Dublin artist Aby Coulibaly has released her second single of 2026.
Written during a period of acute insomnia, it’s a song about the looping, exhausting interior noise of a sleepless mind – and it sounds, against all logic, uplifting.
That tension between restless subject matter and rhythmic, buoyant energy is a liminal mid-ground of thoughts and moods coagulating.
Lines like “I can’t make new faces when I’m dreaming” and “Wish I could see my thoughts as amusing, it must be nice” have the fatigued clarity of 3am thinking – precise in the way that only comes from living inside something for too long.
Rather than dramatising the anxiety, Aby lets it simmer. The track made its live debut at Brick Lane Jazz Festival last month.
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”Love Is Enough’ was released in February.
Aby’s sound moves between soul, R&B, pop and experimental textures – shaped by reggae rhythms, Senegalese musical traditions and 90s R&B, and built through years of independent releasing since 2019.
She’s part of creative collective Chamomile Club alongside Monjola and MOIO,
She’s played Radio 1’s Big Weekend and All Points East, supported Coldplay, Olivia Dean and Rejjie Snow, made her Late Late Show debut, and released her debut mixtape At The End Of The Day… It’s Night in 2023.
She plays Forbidden Fruit on Saturday May 30th.
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.
