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
Tame Impala – Deadbeat
The fifth album from Kevin Parker ditches the guitar-rock foundations of his core sound almost completely in favour of dreamy club-psych explorations anchored by his trademark falsetto, and inspired by Aussie ‘rave culture in Western Australia in the ’90s. There’s a song that has some Enya vibes (‘Piece Of Heaven’), and with its relatively light-weight mid-tempo style, most of these songs live and die on the strength of the vocals and how they interplay with these productions.
Tame Impala plays Dublin next May.
The Last Dinner Party – From The Pyre
A second album already from the UK buzz band reinforces their retro theatrical pop leaning. The London five-piece recorded the record woith Markus Dravs (Wolf Alice, Florence & The Machine) in early 2025, a quick followup to 2023’s Prelude to Ecstasy.
The Last Dinner Party on From The Pyre:
“This record is a collection of stories, and the concept of album-as-mythos binds them. ‘The Pyre’ itself is an allegorical place in which these tales originate, a place of violence and destruction but also regeneration, passion and light.
“The songs are character driven but still deeply personal, a commonplace life event pushed to pathological extreme. Being ghosted becomes a Western dance with a killer, and heartbreak laughs into the face of the apocalypse. Lyrics invoke rifles, scythes, sailors, saints, cowboys, floods, Mother Earth, Joan of Arc, and blazing infernos. We found this kind of evocative imagery to be the most honest and truthful way to discuss the way our experiences felt, giving each the emotional weight it deserves.”
“This record feels a little darker, more raw and more earthy; it takes place looking out at a sublime landscape rather than seated an opulent table. It also feels metatextual and cheeky in places, like a knowing look reflected back at ourselves.”
TLDP play Dublin on November 14th.
Sudan Archives – THE BPM
LA artist Sudan Archives takes on the persona of the technologically-enhanced Gadget Girl to create a future-focused liberated dance club recor on her third full length album on Stones Throw.
Sudan Archives plays Dublin on December 8th.
Soulwax – All Systems Are Lying
Belgian electronic brothers Soulwax release their first studio album in seven years – a song-driven record built from a decent selection of gear – modular synths, live drums, tape loops with processed vocals. Like their earlier records, Soulwax play electronic music like a rock band with familiar sounds from their 2ManyDJs, Soulwax remixes and DeeWee label heard throughout.
The New York Salsa Company – Our Landscape Is Now
The second album from Dublin project The New York Salsa’s Company, led by Adam Smyth (Tribal Dance) is concerned with darker psychedelic rock sounds over his previous project’s noise rock style.
The album was completely rewrite after the album recorded and mixed, was taken after his laptop was stolen in a break-in in 2022. It forced Smyth to reconstruct the record from scratch, and in the process, apparently ” a fresh aggressiveness and bleak irreverence that wasn’t there before,” became more palpable on the resulting album.
They Are Gutting a Body of Water – LOTTO
Philadelphia shoegaze band TAGABOW (to fans) bring an experimental edge to their smoggy alt-rock style, and in doing so, sound most like the genre’s innovators My Bloody Valentine and US alt-rock ’90s bands like Slint, at least in spirit and sonics, as these songs are awash with noisy heavy guitar fuzz as a throughline.
They Are Gutting A Body Of Water play Dublin’s Whelan’s in February.
Bold Love – Dancing & Loving EP
Dublin six-piece Bold Love (formerly Big Love) release their six-track EP which feels like its arriving at the right time for the band, after four years of working on their craft, they are a band on the cusp.
The six songs here, produced by London-based Irish producer Richie Kennedy, encapsulate the best of what this indie pop band have on offer – heart on sleeve songwriting, yearning comfort (‘I’m Home’), a spinning guitar singalong opener (‘All The Lives’), introspection (‘Easy’), the earworm duet pop of ‘Feel You Close’ and the widescreen cinematic (‘That’s Where The Heart Is’).
“It’s about youth, love, death and a sense of place and belonging” says singer Cian Ó’Maonlaí. “It’s a reflection on navigating life up until now. This EP is our way of trying to deal with things. Life is mad and we’re just Dancing & Loving our way through it.”
Bold Love play The Workman’s Club next Wednesday October 22nd.
Headache, Vegyn – Thank You For Almost Everything
The prolific UK artist Vegyn releases his second album as Headache, which is aa downbeat and ’90s throwback style of music – chillout lo-fi trip-pop almost with poetry recited by an AI voice. Intriguing? Sure but I find the juxtaposition doesn’t work for me personally.
Beauty Sleep – The Whole Damn Cake
Derry duo Cheylene Murphy and Ryan McGroarty trade in exuberant alt-pop music, and their second album is described as “joyful rebellion” with the pair embodying and celebrating self-worth, queerness, joy and with neon maximalist synth-pop and indie-rock music. It’s the followup to 2019’s debut Be Kind, and was recorded in their own studio The Dream Factory.
“We went on a journey to find Radical Happiness for ourselves,” Cheylene explains with the title a tongue-in-cheek response to the idea that members of the queer community – are often reduced to being the decorative ‘cherry on top.’ “That was our overarching goal when creating this album, in life and in art.” “I liked the message of ‘I’m not the cherry on top, I’m the whole damn cake.’”
“Someone told me I was ‘dangerously positive’ and that stuck with me,” Cheylene recalls. “I liked the idea that my positivity could be dangerous… that it could enact change.”
LIVE DATES
21/10/2025 – Dublin – Academy 2 (w/ Jessica Winter)
07/11/2025 – Galway – Roisin Dubh
13/11/2025 – Derry – Sandinos
20/11/2025 – Belfast – The Empire (album release show)
21/11/2025 – Dundee – Art Antics
22/11/2025 – Aberdeen – TBC
23/11/2025 – Newcastle – The Cluny
24/11/2025 – Bristol – The Exchange
26/11/2025 – Newport – Le Pub
27/11/2025 – London – Cavendish Arms (Get In Her Ears)
29/11/2025 – Glasgow – Mono
Brògeal – Tuesday Paper Club
Scottish trad-punk indie band Brògeal was recorded with London-based Irish producer Richie Kennedy and draws comparisons to The Pogues and The Mary Wallopers’ raucous trad-folk, but transplanted to Falkirk with accordion, banjo, bouzouki, mandolin, and whistle. Trad is the new rock seemingly.
They’ve a bunch of Irish gigs:
27 Oct – Roisin Dubh, Galway
29 Oct – Voodoo, Belfast
30 Oct – Academy, Dublin
31 Oct – Kasbah Social Club, Limerick
01 Nov – Greyhound, Kilkee
Skullcrusher – And Your Song Is Like A Circle
Helen Ballentine releases a new album on Dirty Hit, bringing folk, piano, strings and electronic songcraft together on her second full-length.
bar italia – Some Like It Hot
Named after the classic 1959 film starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmonm, the new album by London three-piece of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton echoes the big energy trio ensemble of the film with the band’s three singer-songwriters all bringing ideas to the table for this melodic rock record with touches of folk pop, lounge indie and alt-rock.
Bar Italia play Button Factory in Dublin in March.
Daire Patel – What Means The World To You?
Irish alt-R&B artist Daire Patel’s debut album explores the personal turbulence of early adulthood, and “traces Patel’s journey from confusion and self-doubt to resilience and acceptance.”
The album draws on alt-R&B, hip-hop, lo-fi pop and modern soul and reflects on heartbreak, friendships, dreams and desires and navigating life’s up and downs.
“I think the biggest motivation I had whilst writing this album was to show people that it’s ok to feel like life is a rollercoaster. It’s ups and downs, never static and rarely steady. I think people tend to shy away from acknowledging this, especially in Ireland. The phrase ‘I’m grand’ is used when you ask anyone how they are here, even if their life is falling apart they would never vocalise it.”
Winnie Ama – DEKA
The title DEKA means “one” in Ewe her mother’s native language from Ghana. ‘One’ symbolising unity and creativity in diversity and also symbolic of her first compete body of work.
Lyrically, it explores the highs and lows of romance, the grounding power of old friendships, identity and belonging, love, betrayal, acceptance and forgiveness.
CLM – Second-Hand Lexus EP
Cork hip-hop producer CLM takes inspiration from production luminaries Alchemist, Madlib, and Prince Paul, with his crate-digging sample-flipping EP that draws from Brazilian post-bossa nova, Ethiopian jazz, gospel and soul, and vocal contributions from two underground rappers – New York’s Gabe ‘Nandez and New Jersey’s Brainorchestra.
CLM will be performing a live beat set and as a member of the group Machine Gun Céilí on tonight as part of a quadruple project launch with Spekulativ Fiktion, Pacino Brady, and Jimmi at WaveLength Rooftop, Caroline Street, Cork.
Also released this week
- Animal Collective – Feels (20th Anniversary)
- Great Lake Swimmers – Caught Light
- Grizzly Bear – Yellow House / Veckatimest / Shields / Painted Ruins reissues
- Makaya McCraven – Off The Record
- Mitski- The Land: The Live Album
- PARTYOF2 – AMERIKA’S NEXT TOP PARTY!
- Poliça – Dreams Go
- Tom Skinner – Kaleidoscopic Visions
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.
