Also featuring Pat Lagoon, Evan Miles, Post Punk Podge & The Techno Hippies, Willhouse, Lenny Melon, deathtoricky, Florence Road, Sorcha Richardson and more.
The best new Irish songs this week feature emerging tracks we’ve selected from artists from the island of Ireland, with more playlist additions below the main list.
Explore the best new Irish songs alongside our curated playlist for the week.
For more extensive Irish and new music coverage, follow our Spotify playlist or hit up the Irish section for individual track features.
Poor Creature
All Smiles Tonight
If Lankum successfully merge the worlds of drone, black-metal and Irish folk then Poor Creature do the same with folk music with psych and sludge-rock sounds.
Featuring Lankum’s Cormac MacDiarmada along with John Dermody and vocals from Landless’ Ruth Clinton, the recent singles have had a nebulous otherworldly atmosphere, with rising organs, skittering drums and unnerving howl-like sounds.
‘All Smiles Tonight’ continues that supernatural feel with a haunted take on the traditional song.
A debut album All Smiles Tonight is out on Rough Trade imprint River Lea on July 11th.
Poor Creature play Dublin’s Button Factory on November 27th.
Post Punk Podge & The Techno Hippies
Johnny Turpentine
Post Punk Podge & The Technohippies released a four-track EP called TECHNOHIPPIES!ACTIVATE! EP that starts with an uncharacteristic trad air tune that’s a real nice surprise, before we get more fervent and energetic tracks that might be among the best PPP has released – the barrelling spirit-sniffing punk spike of ‘Johnny Turpentine’, the acid-tinged breaks of ‘Reheated Brave’ and the reflective guitar tones of ‘One For Kim’
Jehnova
Clover
Continuing his high hit rate and bar when it comes to great rap tunes, Jehnova’s ‘Clover’ drops into this week’s list like it’s beamed from a beat CDR your friend burned you that one time and you’ve just got to listen to it in the car and you’re wondering who this cool rapper is?
There are buckets of this stuff more from the NUXSENSE rapper over on his Bandcamp.
Willhouse, Lenny Melon
Faoin Talamh
After dropping a ’90s fictional radio station concept beat tape earlier this year, producer Willhouse links with rapper Lenny Melon for the latter’s debut single, and it’s a bilingual garage sweet ting.
IB Rebel
Investments
The South African, Dublin-based lyricist and rapper IB Rebel dropped the 10-track mixtape No Condition Is Permanent last week, and its brimming with music ideas and short detours over its 18 minute running time.
There are Earl Sweatshirt and Billy Woods-esque short tracks and R&B and soul productions, and features from k-caz and leo sierra.
Start with the 90 seconds of ‘Investments’ and go from there.
Pat Lagoon, Evan Miles
Pennies In The Ocean
Waterford locals Pat Lagoon and Evan Miles channel alt-rap and R&B stalwarts Frank Ocean, Rejjie Snow and SMINO on Pat’s confident new tune:
As an Irish-Nigerian rapper that lives here, there and everywhere at any given time, I’ve built my sound between vulnerability and confidence — this track leans into that space. It’s tailored for late-night listeners who want depth in the bars and feeling in the sonics. Think somewhere between Smino, Rejjie Snow, and Frank Ocean with a rap lens.
For more extensive Irish and new music coverage, check into the Irish section for individual track features…
For this and more Irish songs, follow the Nialler9 New Irish Spotify playlist.
Other Playlist additions this week:
- deathtoricky – praying for u
- Officer John – Handle
- SELL EVERYTHING – Bohemian Oceans
- Florence Road – Goodnight
- Sorcha Richardson – lock & key
- Throwing Snow; Daragh Fleming – Pedalling – Radio Edit
- chameleon – How To Pray (Euphoria)
- Ciaran Lavery – Ida
- Burglar – Mousetrap
- POSER – Raging – 2025 mix
- George Feely – Blue Marble – Edit
- Unique Freaks – Somebody Special
- For Nina – Swallow
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, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
