This week’s selection is recent new music highlights as I never made one last week due to being at The Great Escape. So here is a mixtape of the best tracks since the last one of these taking in the Newcastle folk singer Jack Houlsby, new artists in the intense but brilliant Anna B Savage, new Domino signing LA Priest, Matador’s Haelos, Polish dude Oliver Heim, Niwel Tsumbu and friends as RiZA, Liverpool’s Johnny Sands sounding like Ben Howard, the Def Jam-signed Alessia Cara flipping Portishead/Isaac Hayes sample, and soon to be Dublin residents Overcoats.
There are returning songs from Active Child‘s new album Mercy, R&B singer Billie Black, and Jamie xx.
There’s also a section marked ‘banging’ featuring analogue electronics from Boot & Tax, acid vibes from Stellar Om Source, psychedelic AFX style on Beats In Space from Palmbomen II with a track named after a minor X-Files character and house vibes from Jack J.
It might be a special weekend….
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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.
