Albums & Releases
It was amazing to see Future Islands‘ Samuel T. Herring on US TV rubbernecking, crabwalking…
Waterford musician and songwriter Deaf Joe’s debut Burrowings showcased an abstracted folk sound. For the…
Despite an audience willing Beck Hansen to do what he does best, it’s been six…
Working collaboratively with a visionary artist like David Byrne has only made Annie Clark more…
When you have a voice so striking you could hang a hat on it, it’s…
Irish folk singer Sorcha Richardson and New Jersey duo Fortunate Ones have showed us the…
Four years after their debut album, Warpaint’s followup release normalises what helped characterise their sound.…
Irish traditional music is a stranger to me. It’s always been. I’ve a cursory knowledge…
If you’re looking for the most stark difference between James Vincent McMorrow’s Early In The…
As noted previously, Paddy Hanna is the lead singer of Grand Pocket Orchestra, perhaps the…
Dunk Murphy’s regular Friday night musical experiments made at home saw the light of the…
The debut album from London’s Daniel Avery is delightfully out-of-step with what’s going on in…
Expressive instrumental guitar melodies, fingerplucked treated string notes, ambient waves of noise, piano chords lumbering…
Neil O’Connor’s fourth album as Somadrone feels like his most complete body of work yet.…
Mamiko Motto of NTS has put together a compilation called Amada for All City. Featuring…
As a member of Halfset, Jeff Martin is no stranger to intricately constructed arrangements. It’s…
Listen to songs from Lisa O’Neill’s 2009 debut long player Has an Album and you…
Katharine Philippa is one of the most interesting new artists to appear from Northern Ireland…
The Belfast label Champion Sound has only been around a year but in that short…
The plan for a Halloween mix was culled by the ghouls of responsibility and the…