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Ailbhe Reddy’s second full-length album is both a departure and a return. She is angry. She is punk. She is a mess. And yet, she is gentle. She is indie folk. She is watching the morning light drift across the body of a sleeping lover.…

Stay and forgive; stay and fight; leave. These are the choices faced by the Mennonite women at the centre of Sarah Polley’s Women Talking. Eight women from three generations of two families have been nominated to make this decision for…

Banríon’s second EP Dare to Crush is a bit bangin’. These tracks - ‘Departure Party’ in particular - wouldn’t sound out of place being performed on the roof of the high school at the end of classic 90’s teen film 10 Things I Hate About…

The second album from Anna Mieke is both concise and sprawling. Concise in that it is a mere eight tracks long; sprawling in that only two of those tracks are less than five minutes, and one is nearly eight. Theatre opens with the…

After penning and recording the follow up to 2019's First Prize Bravery during lockdown after lockdown while watching the live music industry struggle and all but disappear, Sorcha Richardson has every right to be happy, hopeful and in…

Earlier this month, Dublin-born musician CMAT released her debut album, If My Wife New I’d Be Dead, to much acclaim. I don’t know about you, but I, for one, have been biding my time. Waiting for this album. Wishing. Hoping. Praying that it…