Albums & Releases

Listen to the EP from Dublin-based Aussie Liza Flume – Full Steam Ahead

Liza Flume grabbed attention with her ‘What We Called Love’ song, a track which marked…

Album of the week: Mano Le Tough – Changing Days

If you were expecting a non-stop floor-filler from the Irish Berlin-based producer you’ll be disappointed…

Listen: Suuns’ new album Images Du Futur

Montreal’s Suuns‘ propulsive rock music made their debut Zeroes QC a darkly engaging listen. Its…

Album of the week: inc. – no world

Brothers in sound and blood create a great R&B mood record… It’s been well-documented that…

Listen to Diamond Dagger’s new ’80s electro EP – DD-1

Formerly named Sarsparilla, Diamond Dagger’s spent the last year or so playing live with David…

Album of the week: Girls Names – The New Life

If you weren’t already enthused by Belfast’s Girls Names now is the time, their second…

Listen to My Bloody Valentine’s new album mbv

It finally happened. My Bloody Valentine released a followup album to their seminal album Loveless…

Album of the week: I Am The Cosmos – Monochrome

The appearance of not only a debut album stream from I Am The Cosmos last…

Album stream roundup: Local Natives, Nosaj Thing,Frightened Rabbit, Darkstar, Unknown Mortal Orchestra & more

Lots of albums being released at the moment so it’s hard to keep up. Here’s…

Thao & The Get Down Stay Down feat. Joanna Newsom – ‘Kindness Be Conceived’

The new album from Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, We The Common is…

Listen to Quompilation #3: Irish bands cover their favourite songs of 2012

For the last two years, January has been brightened up by the appearance of Quompilation,…

Album of the week: FaltyDL – Hardcourage

Before 2012, the music of New York producer Drew Lustman aka FaltyDL was synonymous with…

Watch Shugo Tokumaru’s amazing paper-motion video & hear his new album In Focus?

There’ll always be a place in my heart for the music of Japan’s Shugo Tokumaru.…

Album of the week: Toro Y Moi – Anything In Return

On his previous two albums Chaz Bundick’s music was at its best when his melodic…

Listen: Dutch Uncles – Out Of Touch In The Wild

Dutch Uncle’s third album Out Of Touch In The Wild is the sound of a…

Album of the week: Villagers – {Awayland}

Conor O’Brien’s pedigree is already well-established. He represents the considerate, considerable poetic songwriter. He draws…

Download: Somadrone’s ambient Atlantic EP

Neil O’ Connor aka Somadrone shared this calming 5-track EP of ambient tracks he made…

Listen to Nina Hynes / Dancing Suns’ Goldmine album

While we were all preparing to celebrate the end of another year and the start…

Nialler9′s Best of 2012: Albums of the year

Hit play and hear a song from each one of my top 40 albums of…

Nialler9′s Readers’ Poll 2012 results: Irish albums of the year

We’ve had the best EPs, remixes, videos, new artists and songs in Irish music as…