Best New Irish Music

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…

Dundalk native Jim O’Donoghue Martin, better known as Video Blue, combines spoken word, ambient electronica and guitar driven alt-pop on his third record The Pull. Anyone familiar with O'Donoghue Martin's previous self-recorded,…

15 years in the Irish education system means I can stand before you now and say with supreme confidence that Ispíní na hÉireann means “Sausages of Ireland” as Gaeilge. What my years of schooling never thought to tell me was why the…

Another month, another excellent selection of the best new tracks and artists around the country. HeadStuff's Best New Irish Music is back to name the latest and greatest for the month that was October 2022. Oh, and don't forget - if…

After a two year wait, Aoife Nessa Frances unleashes her sophomore album Protector. This follow up to 2020’s Land of No Junction has already received acclaim for lead single 'Way to Say Goodbye' and the rest of the album follows a…

Three years on from their celebrated second album The Talkies, Gilla Band (formerly known as Girl Band) are back with Most Normal, and they’re not messing around. The first thirty seconds of opener ‘The Gum’ sounds like what you might…

Neil Dexter describes ‘I’ll Be Ready’, the title track of his debut album, as a “Frankenstein composition” composed of three different ideas in one track. I wouldn’t, though - Frankenstein implies something ugly and cobbled-together. …

Neil Dexter is positioned to be one of the most intriguing prospects in the Irish music scene in 2022. Kickstarting his solo career in 2021 with the release of his single 'Loving You', the Dublin-based multi-instrumentalist and…

Irish songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Gavin Murray, aka Trick Mist, is something of a hidden gem in the Irish music scene. His work to date, built upon original samples, storytelling lyrics and influence from traditional…

It is highly unlikely that you'll heard another album quite like The Hedge Maze and The Spade in 2022. The sophomore record from Gavin Murray AKA Trick Mist carries all of the surreal sampling techniques that brought the songwriter…