Best Of 2023

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! That time after Christmas but before New Year's where you've unwrapped the gifts, pulled all the crackers, and consumed your body weight in roast potatoes. What is there left to do? Why go on?…

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…

You know we're fond of a good list here at HeadStuff, so if you didn't get your fill of cracking 2023 albums from our Irish picks last week, then we've got you covered with another fine selection of the best of 2023 - this time from…

Well, that was a pretty quick half year! We're somehow already at the midway point through 2023 so that can mean only one thing - it's list time. It's already been a fantastic year for Irish music, thanks to the artists below and too…

David Kitt is standing near the water. Behind him, the Skellig Islands are looming in all their austere glory. His face is peaceful and his eyes are closed. He’s wearing a homemade tricorn hat. It might be made of tinfoil. This image is…

It's been a minute! February and March were so stacked with excellent album releases that we didn't get a chance to take a minute and recognize the best tunes of the last couple of months, so the good news is that you're getting two for…

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…

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.…

Dublin-based post-punk quintet Mhaol were first tipped as ones to watch with the release of their debut single ‘Clementine’ seven years ago. The group would not release any new music for another five years, breaking their silence with the…

A few lifetimes ago, Mick Jagger famously said he’d rather be dead than perform “Satisfaction” at forty. We all know how that turned out for Mick and the Stones. However, as many of the rock n’ roll pioneers, at least those still alive,…