reviews
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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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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…
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The Cork artist turns poetry, anger and the invisible weight people carry into a collision of alt-R&B, soul, jazz and spoken word. There is something immediately likeable about an artist who can move from discussing societal pressure, mental health and sexual violence to wanting to “frolic away from smelly men.” Welcome to the world of…
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There are records that announce themselves at the door and others that make you lean towards the speaker. Elanor Moss’s debut album, The Knife, The Needle, belongs firmly to the latter. Across the nine-track record, Moss works within an intimate world of acoustic guitar, voice, strings, brass and carefully considered space. Love sits at the…
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There is something immediately refreshing about a folk song that arrives with an actual story to tell. On “The Cavalier”, Jessica Willis Fisher leans wholeheartedly into the old narrative tradition of folk music, giving us characters, consequences and a cautionary tale wrapped inside a track energetic enough to disguise just how much is going on…
