At Elastic Witch’s 1st Birthday party, a room of people for which music is high on their priority watched Conor O’Brien perform ‘The Waves’ acoustically. Along with another new cut from the forthcoming album Awayland, the lyrically impressive ‘Earthly Pleasure’, it was one of two songs on the day written on a synthesizer. O’Brien’s acoustic take held just as much weight, taking away from the instrumental fog of the original.
Here, another of Ireland’s best musical exports in the last few years, Newbridge man Jack Colleran’s MMOTHS adds a hazy fog of his own, turning ‘The Waves’ into an imprint of the original, a mark of languorous and warm textures leaving a gossamer memory of what has gone before.
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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.
