music
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Our Rating 7/10 Maren Davidsen’s debut begins with a title that sounds like the end of a relationship. As the album unfolds, it gathers a wider meaning: leaving a person, leaving a city, and leaving behind the version of yourself who accepted less than she deserved. That gives This Is Where I Leave You a…
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Our Rating 5/5 There’s something wonderfully familiar about Lady Synott’s debut single ‘High Horse’. From its commanding lead vocals from front-woman Jess Neville to its sweeping rock arrangements, the Irish five-piece have delivered a track that recalls the glory days of guitar-driven pop rock, when a great voice, a strong melody and a cracking chorus…
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MORGANA – THE WHOLE THING WAS VERY VERY EMOTIONAL Our Rating 5/5 There comes a point in an artist’s career where reinvention stops being a risk and becomes a necessity. With The Whole Thing Was Very Very Emotional, Morgana embraces that moment wholeheartedly, delivering a debut solo album that feels confident, expansive and entirely her…
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Our Rating 4/5 Irish indie-rock quartet Florence Road have spent the past year building considerable momentum, but their latest single, Wish Upon You, suggests something more interesting than another step towards commercial success. It reveals a band willing to embrace happiness without feeling obliged to complicate it. For a generation of alternative artists whose songwriting…
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Our Rating 4/5 Bríd Lyons continues to establish her voice within Ireland’s contemporary folk landscape with October, a beautifully restrained meditation on love, loss and the changing of the seasons. Built around acoustic guitar, banjo and violin, the arrangement never competes with the songwriting. Instead, it allows Lyons’ warm, expressive vocal to carry the emotional…
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Our Rating: 10/10 There is a certain nerve required to put your voice to a song listeners already know. Familiarity brings expectations, and a cover has to offer a reason to return. For eighteen-year-old Armagh singer and harpist Niamh Noade, ‘Ordinary’ is an opportunity to re-introduce herself through a song with an emotional world her…
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beabadoobee: Pylon Released 18 September 2026 through Dirty Hit and Interscope On Pylon, beabadoobee turns the distortion up without allowing the famous names in the credits to swallow her. Hayley Williams, Chino Moreno, Brendan Yates, Matty Healy and George Daniel appear across the album, yet Beatrice Laus remains its centre of gravity. The collaborations broaden…
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In a country currently producing the likes of Lisa O’Neill, Niamh Regan, Emma Langford, Aoife Nessa Frances, Anna Mieke and Sorcha Richardson, Laura Ampersand remains vastly underrated. Her musicality, compositional instinct and extraordinary vocal ability place her comfortably among the best of what Ireland’s flourishing generation of female songwriters is offering right now. There is…
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Let’s get straight to it; Northern Ireland is producing some of the best music coming out of Ireland at the minute. And Drew Makes Noise is among that list with his new single. “Boots” begins in a state of agitation and never entirely settles, which is precisely its strength. Drew Makes Noise folds psych-pop, indie…
