From Wicklow but based in Canada now, Nightbox are back with a debut album this year. From the sound of ‘Burning’, they’ve got big ambition. The track is a headnodding starry-eyed indie anthem with celestial vocal samples and kaleidoscopic references to being “trapped in these hallucinating tones.” It’s still hard to get away from the Two Door Cinema Club vibe to the vocals but whatever, this is solid progression. Production on the track is by Al-P of MSTRKFT and Sebastien Grainger of Death From Above 1979 so it sounds as stellar as you’d expect.
More album preview videos on the band’s site.
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.
