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New music: Lightning Dust, Petite Noir, Moscow Metro & Wolf Alice
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New music: Lightning Dust, Petite Noir, Moscow Metro & Wolf Alice

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Friday, May 31, 2013

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The best new music/artist picks of the last week. As published in today’s Day & Night Magazine. Follow Day & Night on Twitter and Facebook.

Lightning Dust

A side-project of Vancouver’s Black Mountain, Lightning Dust favours ’80s synth dramatics over the former’s hard rock style. The lead single from their third album Fantasy, Diamond could slot right into a playlist of songs from the Drive soundtrack.



Petite Noir

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Cape Town musician Yannick Ilunga is supporting Solange in New York next month and it’s easy to hear how his tropical pop music is a good foil for the Knowles sister on his newest track Noirse.

Moscow Metro

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This Limerick band only have two songs under their belt but it’s quality not quantity folks. Their baritone vocal-lead rock songs and should find favour with a nation already obsessed with The National.

Wolf Alice

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The fact that the London four-piece have a sound that flits from ’90s-sounding indie to synth-wave to grungey rock works because they have a grounding in pop first and foremost. There’s a lot of industry interest in this band right now as a result.

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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.