Tracks of the Week playlist
1. Blood Orange – Uncle ACE (Kindness Remix feat. Robert Owens)
Kindness’ Adam Bainbridge and Dev Hynes have remixed each other and worked together before and on his remix he goes for a light funky touch with vocals by Chicago house singer Fingers Inc‘ Robert Owens.
2. Jamie xx – ‘Girl’
The other A-side of ‘Sleep Sound’ is called ‘Girl’ and is out on May 5th.
3. Talos – ‘Escariot’
Cork’s Eoin French performed with limited tools but makes it sound like he has infinite possibilities in the Feel Good Lost acoustic take that came out this week.
4. Tvvins – ‘Book’
A new tropical rock song by Lar and Conor captured in live format.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZfIc03OdGY
5. Lykke Li – ‘No Rest For The Wicked’ feat. A$AP Rocky
An alternative, bonus version of the track from the forthcoming I Never Learn album.
6. X priest X – Isn’t It So
A Florida duo with an impressive new EP on the Swedish label Emotion.
7. Pawws – ‘Sugar’
Lucy Taylor’s honey-sweet synth-pop music is back with ‘Sugar’ a slowed-down tumbling chord Italo disco-style track. Out soon on Best fit Recordings.
8. Hannah Diamond – ‘Attachment’
Sparkly juvenile exuberant off-kilter electronic pop music. From the same stable as Sophie. For more check out the label PC Music and the likes of A.G Cook.
9. Staring At Lakes – ‘Consanguinea’
A moving atmospheric orchestral indie pop track from a new Irish band.
10. Metro Area – ‘Dance Reaction’
Just an oldie I’ve been both listening to and playing while DJing a lot. From the timeless Metro Area 2002 LP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpspmD5-GTM&feature=kp
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.
