Indie, Rock & Alternative

Villagers announces new album Darling Arithmetic, hear first song ‘Courage’

Villagers have a third entitled Darling Arithmetic coming out on April 10th on Domino Records.…

Album of the week: Jonnie Common – Trapped In Amber

A jovial intro track called ‘Guesty’, in which Johnnie Common offers to put his mate…

Premiere listen: Subplots’ new album Autumning

Last year, Subplots returned as a core duo of Phil Boughton and Daryl Chaney with…

Album of the week: Jape – This Chemical Sea

For most of his creative endeavours as Jape, Richie Egan has been juxtaposing traditional guitar-based…

Toro Y Moi – ‘Empty Nesters’

Chaz Bundick spent last year working his dance muscles on the excellent Les Sins project…

Myles Manley – ‘Pay Me What I’m Worth’

I had largely remained immune to the charms of the alt-wonky pop musician Myles Manley…

Laura Groves – ‘Dream Story’

Laura Groves’ did a wonderful job last year covering Paul McCartney’s ‘Waterfalls’. She also provided…

Jape – ‘Séance of Light’

There’s a good chance you’ve already heard this, it was released as a radio single…

Skelocrats – ‘Lyin’ Eyes’

The Popical Island band Skelocrats will return with a new album. The band, made up…

Come On Live Long – ‘Trough’
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Come On Live Long’s first album Everything Fall is one of my favourite Irish albums…

Premiere: Watch The Minutes preach the ‘Supernatural’

The Minutes will are closing out 2014, what may well be their best year as…

Geppetto – ‘Floating Statues’

Geppetto is the musical project of producer/visual artist Paul Mahon who has brought musicians, once…

R.S.A.G. – ‘Don’t Move So Fast’

Jeremy Hickey has spent most of 2014 not working on his own music, mostly in…

Oh Wonder – ‘All We Do’

One of the bands I’m most excited about at the moment are this duo from…

Elastic Sleep – ‘Slip’

Elastic Sleep’s ‘Slip’, their newest single has an eerie alchemic quality to it. There are…

Meltybrains? – ‘IV’

Dublin band of experimental messers Meltybrains? are back with some material before the year is…

Lonelady – ‘Groove It Out’

It has been over four years since Manchester artist Julia Campbell, aka Lonelady released her…

Intro: Pockets – a new Irish indie band

Pockets are a new four-piece band who describe themselves as “dark folk rock”. The Galway/Dublin…

First listen: Adrian Crowley’s new album Some Blue Morning

The Galway singer and musician Adrian Crowley has made a name for himself for creating…

Sylas – ‘Shore’

The fledgling label Aesop has this year given us a fine EP from Iranian/English electronic…