Here’s a rundown of new releases out today, including new albums and EPs on DSPs and physical releases in record shops this week.
Nialler9 keeps a rolling list of Irish album releases for 2025.
New Albums and Releases
New Albums
Baby Keem – Ca$ino
The second album from Kendrick’s cousin Keem on PgLang features guest appearances from Kendrick Lamar, Too Short. It’s a followup to 2021’s The Melodic Blue. Two documentary shorts were released in advance.
Big Sleep – Holy Show
The Dublin Italian indie-rock band Big Sleep debut album, following recent singles of melodic indie pop persuasion. The album was produced by Chris Ryan and features recent single ‘Crude’.
Holy Show is an album about transience; the messiness of love, the beauty in impermanence, and the constant transformation that occurs as we stumble through connection, heartbreak, and growth. Named after the Irish expression “a holy show” (a scene of emotional chaos or public embarrassment), each track on the album becomes a chapter in a coming-of-age story grounded in vulnerability and cinematic lyricism.
Thumper – Sleeping With The Light On
Dublin double drumming alt-rockers Thumper’s second album and followup to Delusions Of Grandeur. Recent single ‘Bad Mood’ which I loved a lot features on the 10-track record.
The album process began before the first album was released in the band’s rehearsal room during the pandemic, with songs exhibiting a “darker, paranoid energy,” and starved of audience attention, resolved to pack the songs with colour and shade in every corner, including songs originally intended for Oisin Leahy Furlong’s solo project Anamoe Drive. The album was recorded in Donegal, in a house and drums were done in Attica Studio.
Thumper play The Academy on March 4th.
Nathan Micay – Industry Season 4
The score for season four of the fintech finance bro show Industry by Nathan Micay is another cache of evocative electronic instrumentals, drawing on synth arpeggios and lush sounds.
Peaches – No Lube So Rude
Peaches and her unapologetic electro punk pop music returns with No Lube So Rude, said to “exist at the intersection of the personal and the political, where the body serves not only as a sexual and spiritual vessel, but also as the front line in a battle for basic human rights.
Various Artists – Steve Mason presents The Romance of Unknowing
Compilation curated by The Beta Band’s Steve Mason takes in influences from Northern Soul, punk, folk, hip-hop, soul and post-punk, spanning tracks from 1965 to 2005.
“There was a club in Dunfermline (Fife) called The Kronk and the DJ there, called Lel Palfrey would play incredible sets going from House into Hip Hop into Reggae and back into House. Occasionally ending with Booker T’s Green Onions. As someone with wildly eclectic music taste who had been a Mod, Lel helped sure up my opinion that there should be no boundaries in music. It’s just a line of Human expression that stretches back into our past and will continue. Forever. Open your arms and come with me.” - Steve Mason 2025
Apparat – A Hum Of Maybe
Berlin-based musician, producer and composer Sascha Ring releases his sixth studio Apparat album and first since 2019. It’s said to be a deeply personal work, coming after a long period of writer’s block – broken by coming up with an idea for a song every day without judgment, and six months of these ideas generating, broke the block.
FRIENDS& – FOLX
An 108-track album of sample-based crashbanging pop music that took 8 years to make from an unknown Toronto artist. Appears to sample everything from The Beatles to Dylan to Aviici to Legend Of Zelda to Kid Rock or possibly not.
folx started as a facebook message sent at 11:55am on june 16th 2017. it took 8 years, 8 months, and 1 day to complete.
– folx is an attempt to reinvent pop music production.
– folx is a concept album.
– folx is about the decade i spent working as a corporate creative.
– folx is about the love employers demand employees feel towards their labour.
– folx is about the history of capital transforming ‘folk songs’ into the ‘folk genre’.
– folx is about the blip in time in the latter half of the 20th century when ageless oral traditions became a profitable industry.
– folx is about living through the death of the music industry.
– folx is about the consequences of shitpost culture subsuming all artforms in the 21st century.
– folx is about the tension between the economic unviability and the creative potential at the heart of shitpost.
– folx is about the death of my father, an autistic rateyourmusic user who died before he could retire from his job at td bank.
– folx is about the contradiction between my belief in marxist ideas and my impulse towards accelerationist cultural production.
– ‘no copyright law in the universe is going to stop [folx]!’ – sonic the hedgehog.
A further manifesto is here.
Curren$y, Larry June & The Alchemist – Spiral Staircases
The alt-rap trio have worked together in various configurations in recent years, and this is the trio’s first joint album, clocking in at 7 songs and 24 minutes.
Consolers – Deep Breaths
Belfast-based five piece rock band release their debut album. The band are Sonja Sleator, Daniel Lynch, Ethan Hanna, Sean McCann and Iain Minford. Deep Breaths was produced by Jonny Woods (Wynona Bleach).
Ebauche – Nine Times
Irish electronic producer Alex Leonard releases his fifth album, kickstarted by the idea to limit his attention to a single tool the digital tape machine – the Bastl Thyme.
This exercise took on a life of its own. Initially he started with nothing more than the machine feeding back into itself, exploring ways to sculpt the sound. As he created more sketches, he varied things, for instance by feeding the ambience of the studio from a microphone into the machine, affecting it and feeding it back into itself to expose the machine’s character beyond the ambient tone. Later, he introduced additional multi-effects units into the feedback chain.
He layered one take upon another, building upon and reacting to the sounds from the previous takes, slowly expanding each piece.
After an intensive period of composition, he allowed the pieces to ‘age’, so to speak, before returning to them later with fresh ears. In 2024, he edited the compositions into a more coherent form and finally mixed them in 2025.
Balderdasch – Still Gyrating EP
Irish London-based artist Balderdasch releases a six-track EP of off-kilter experimental lo-fi spoken and sung almost-theatrical bedroom pop.
Also released this week
- Absolutely – Paracosm
- fabric – SELECTS VI
- Moby – Future Quiet
- LEGION OF ONE – OF TOWERS AND BRITTLE THINGS
- Lisa O’Neill – The Wind Doesn’t Blow This Far Right EP (Vinyl)
- Nathan Fake – Evaporator
- Purple Disco Machine – Defected presents House Masters
- U2 – Days of Ash EP
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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, 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.
