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ØXN, a doom folk quartet, comprises Lankum vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Radie Peat, producer John ‘Spud’ Murphy, and associates Eleanor Myler of Percolator and Katie Kim. Cyrm (pronounced ‘cy-rum’) is their debut album, and marks the…

It’s been four years since the release of Rom Com, the debut full-length from Dublin’s Tandem Felix, and this time around, things are a little bit darker. On There’s A New Sheriff In Town, David A. Tapley and company shift towards an…

In 1998, Swedish hardcore punks Refused released their third album The Shape of Punk to Come. The album was a bold departure from their 1994 debut This Might Just Be... The Truth, and it’s 1996 follow-up, Songs to Fan the Flames of…

Limerick-born Elaine Malone has been a stalwart of the Cork music scene for over a decade now. Prolific as MANTUA, the singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist has also been a member of punk band Land Crabs, Krautrock-inspired Soft…

Almost 20 years ago, wordsmith extraordinaire Mike Skinner gifted us with A Grand Don’t Come For Free, the second album under his on-off-on again moniker, The Streets. Inspired by songwriting manuals and books by Hollywood screen-writing…

Dream Wife describe their third LP, Social Lubrication, as “hyper lusty rock and roll with a political punch, exploring the alchemy of attraction, the lust for life”. Entirely self-produced and composed, its a proposition that yields…

Now is All is the second solo album from Swimmers Jackson. Starting as a trio called Swimmers, the album is the follow up to 2020’s Murmuration, which in turn follows the releases of EPs Swimmer’s Year and This Burning Circus in 2013…

Lankum are something of an outlier in the contemporary Irish folk revival scene. Their experimental take on the genre borrows heavily from drone music and post-punk, as evidenced by their Mercury Prize winning second album under this…

No Spill Blood – an Irish underground supergroup of sorts, comprising Hands Up Who Wants To Die’s Matt Hedigan (bass, vocals), multimedia artist Ror Conaty (drums) and Magic Pockets’ Ruadhan O’Meara (synth) – made their genre defying debut…

Learning To Live (Part I) is the debut EP from Kildare-based singer-songwriter Jamie D’Arcy. Citing the likes of Ben Howard, David Kitt, Radiohead and Big Thief as influences; D’Arcy’s approach to songwriting marries elements of acoustic…