Here’s a rundown of 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 EPs:
New Albums
Real Lies – We Will Annihilate Our Enemies
English electronic duo known for their euphoric-thumped vignettes of the hedonistic and personal experiences of moving through life with a poet’s insight. This is the band’s third album of heart-on-sleeve dancefloor revelation moody synth highs.
Julien Baker & Torres – Send a Prayer My Way
A collaborative country album between two American indie-rock songwriters who met on tour in 2016, Boygenius style. “One singer turned to the other and said, ‘You know, we should make a country album’.”
Beirut – A Study of Losses
Zach Condon’s latest Beirut album is an 18-track odyssey commissioned by Swedish circus Kompani Giraff, for an acrobatic stage show of the same name. As a free interpretation of Verzeichnis einiger Verluste, the novel by German author Judith Schalansky, A Study of Losses journeys through eleven songs and seven extended instrumental themes, named after the lunar seas and inspired by the chilling tale of a man obsessed with archiving all of humanity’s lost thoughts and creations. Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs is a key inspiration.
Zoé Basha – Gamble
The Dublin based French-American musician and composer blends folk, blues, americana, jazz, and Irish influences on her debut record.
Basha is also one third of vocal harmony group Rufous Nightjar, an has an extensive Irish tour to support the album.
- April 17th 2025 – Album Launch with full band at The Sugar Club, Dublin
- April 18th 2025 – Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Cork
- April 19th 2025 – Tech Amergin, Waterville, Cork
- April 20th 2025 – Levis’ Bar, Ballydehob, Cork
- April 21st 2025 – Prim’s Bookshop, Kinsale, Cork
- April 24th 2025- De Burgos Club, Galway
- April 25th 2025 – The Glens Centre, Manorhamilton, Leitrim
- April 26th 2025 – The Duncairn, Belfast
- April 27th 2025 – The Record Room, Limerick
- May 1st 2025 – Fennelly’s of Callan, Kilkenny
- May 2nd – Bray Jazz Fest, Wicklow
- May 3rd 2025 – The Crane Lane Theatre, Cork
- May 4th 2025 – Blennerville, Tralee, Co. Kerry (co-headling with Rachel Sermanni)
Confidence Man – 5AM (LA LA LA)
A remix album of 3AM (LA LA LA) featuring Prozak, Paige Tomlinson, Sworn Virgins, King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard, SHEE, Special Request and more.
Haunted Images – Haunted Images
Louth-based producer and songwriter David O’Farrell-McGeary makes alt-rock shoegaze that blends modern alt-metal influences Deftones and Deafheaven, with ambience of Aphex Twin and shoegaze masters My Bloody Valentine.
The Convenience – Like Cartoon Vampires
New Orleans art punks The Convenience’s second album features Duncan Troast’s swinging rhythms against Nick Corson’s whimsical melodies and sardonic late-stage capitalist lyrics.
Tunde Adebimpe – Thee Black Boltz
The TV On The Radio singer and actor releases a debut solo album,produced by Abebimpe & Wilder Zoby with additional production and contributions from Jaleel Bunton & Jahphet Landis (of TV on the Radio) among others.
I Dreamed I Dream – BOYOPOISONING EP
Self-described Cork “sean-nós noise-makers” release a second EP which features ‘Fags’ that reminds me in a great way of the Irish synth-pop legends Fight Like Apes crossed with Irish traditional music.
I Dreamed I Dream play BelloBar in Dublin on May 3rd to mark the EP release.
Also released today
- Aidan Younge – Something About April III
- Arthur Russell – Open Vocal Phrases Where Songs Come in And Out
- Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek – Yarın Yoksa
- Divide And Dissolve – Insatiable
- Fontaines D.C. – Romance (Deluxe Edition)
- Hieroglyphic Being – Dance Music 4 Bad People
- Kool Keith – Karpenters
- Mark de Clive-Lowe – past present (tone poems across time)
- MIEN – MIIEN
- Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson – What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow
- Slick Rick – Victory
