David Anthony Mc Geown's new project also has a video starring a Game Of Thrones actor.
Bodies is a music project by David Anthony Mc Geown with an album called Drench on the way. The project’s brooding first song ‘Nightmoves’ for which you can see the Eddie Jackson-starring (Game Of Thrones) video below. I’m interested in the remix by Kobina (Check his Sentinel Island EP ) of ‘Nightmoves’, which lends the… Read more »
Posted on December 9th, 2016
A list of underrated full-lengths from my music listening this year.
The music world moves fast. Thousands of songs are competing for your attention every day so it takes something special for a full-length album to not only get your attention in the first place but keep you coming back for more. I found 2016 to be one of the most testing and taxing times for… Read more »
Posted on December 8th, 2016
The duo met in London after moving after the recession.
St. Francis Hotel are a new Irish act/producers based in London who have released three songs thus far but have done enough to be noticed by the wider world via KCRW, The Line of Best Fit, Clash, BBC Six Music and Spotify. They previously featured here as producers of the song ‘Writer’s Block’ with Lixo… Read more »
Posted on December 7th, 2016
Toni Etherson and Mia Fitz collaborated on electronic funk pop debut.
Siights is a new duo formed by Toni Etherson and Mia Fitz, the former a chart songwriter from Scotland and the latter, a musician from Dublin who has played live with Hozier for the last two years. The pair decamped to LA recently to work on music together for other artists but and what they… Read more »
Posted on November 18th, 2016
Fans of Banks will dig this digital R&B debut.
Galway artist Laoise Ní Nualláin came to my attention with a downbeat electro pop cover of Nirvana’s Come As You Are earlier this year. Laoise’s debut EP Halfway is coming in January and ‘You’ the first single ‘You’ mixes Laoise’s flighty vocals with a brooding electronic pop low-end and touches of R&B and pop. Ní… Read more »
Posted on November 15th, 2016
The first EP of 4 is about the women in his life.
Brendan McGlynn is the former singer of Color//Sound and the current guitarist of the Raglans. As Lovr, his solo project, McGlynn has a series of four EPs coming out over the next year, recorded in home studios. Girls Girls Girls is the first of the EP releases and the first track ‘Ode To The Women… Read more »
Posted on November 4th, 2016
Post-dub electronica.
There’s not much info out there about Wicklow duo Gumshoe, but they sent across this track from their forthcoming from Sun Kisses The Moon release. Shannakie and Yam Faddah’s ‘yom kippur’ is an instrumental track with post-dub ambience and a bubbling percussive feel with a title taken from the Jewish day of atonement, which was… Read more »
Posted on October 17th, 2016
The English singer bares an uncanny resemblance.
London-based artist and undeniable Kate Bush soundalike Grace Lightman has followed up ‘Faultless’ and ‘White China (Raging Bull)’ with ‘Repair Repair’. The song apparently “started out as a jingle for a fictional weight loss milkshake advert but became a song about people’s fear of change, and the inevitability of becoming robots.” OK. Its mantric synth… Read more »
Posted on October 13th, 2016
Galway singer-songwriter gives us a fine debut.
I caught a bit of Niamh Regan’s set after the Sing Along Social at Electric Picnic at the start of this month and was taken by the University of Limerick-attending Galway singer-songwriter’s voice. Regan’s voice has the inflections of UK folk music singers like This Is The Kit, to a lesser extent, Laura Marling combined… Read more »
Posted on September 22nd, 2016
Affecting music from a Swedish singer-songwriter.
Swedish singer-songwriter Albert af Ekenstam has a debut album called Ashes coming on October 14th on Kning Disk. I’m very taken by ‘Made Of Gold’, a track that will feature on it. A melancholy song formed of piano and his consuming voice, the track lifts with a swelling of percussion and strings. According to the… Read more »
Posted on September 15th, 2016
The number nine is the best, like.
The name Caz9 was first spotted on the Electric Picnic lineup and duly highlighted but alas, late stage schedule meant a missed opportunity to check out a fellow particular-numeral loving artist. It wasn’t just the name that jumped out, I often tell new artists that the visual aspect of what they do has to be… Read more »
Posted on September 14th, 2016
Stefan Murphy was the driving force behind the Mighty Stef band until May when the band closed the journey. Count Vaseline is the newest project from Stef and there’s already an LP called Yo No Soy Marinero ready to go on September 30th on his own imprint OCD-Tapes [Olive-Color-Dream-Tapes] on cassette and digital. The project… Read more »
Posted on August 25th, 2016
New North London based artists Tender (James Cullen and Dan Cobb) recently signed to Partisan Records (Eagulls, Dilly Dally, Torres) and dropped a smooth electronic synth-cut called ‘Outside’. Reminiscent of Haelos and Glass Animals’ hypnotic rhythms, ‘Outside’ is a fine opening gambit, smouldering with desire. “I will touch myself, guilty of loving you too much/… Read more »
Posted on August 10th, 2016
Cotswold brother and sister Rob and Katy Pearson, Ardyn, appeared earlier late in 2015 with a nice debut EP of smart indie pop music. Then came ‘Over The River’, a song which shared some parallels with London Grammar in tone. Now, the Pearsons have a new four-track EP out called The Valley, which features production… Read more »
Posted on July 28th, 2016
Kelsey Lu is a North Carolinian cellist and singer/songwriter who has just released an EP (Church) of orchestrally-arranged ambient folk music on True Panther. Comparisons to Alice Coltrane and Bat For Lashes, Lu’s music leans into the avant-garde spectrum yet she has collaborated with artists in the field of pop and R&B like Blood Orange,… Read more »
Posted on July 19th, 2016
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