reviews
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With the release of her new instrumental single “Golden Hour” set for June 12th, Nashville-based singer-songwriter and fiddler Jessica Willis Fisher returns to the Irish musical roots that first shaped her artistic identity. Inspired by her experience winning the Grúpaí Cheoil competition at the 2012 All-Ireland Fleadh Cheoil in Cavan, the track captures a pivotal…
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At just seventeen years old, Niamh Noade finds herself standing at a fascinating crossroads. Raised in County Armagh and immersed in Irish music from an early age, Noade has spent much of her young life surrounded by melody, storytelling and tradition. A multi-award-winning harpist, finalist in Junior Eurovision and a familiar face on the Fleadh…
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In an era where electronic music often leans heavily towards escapism, spectacle and algorithm-friendly singles, Swedish producer Fred Rydén is taking a different route. His latest album, The Way To The Good Life, is not simply a collection of dance tracks designed to fill playlists or soundtrack late-night club sets. Instead, it is a sixteen-track…
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8/10 Wallis Bird has never sounded particularly interested in perfection, and thank Christ for that. “Hold Tight!” works precisely because it feels alive. Messy in places. Urgent. Warm. Full of movement and breath and friction. In an era where so much contemporary folk-pop arrives vacuum-sealed and emotionally overmanaged, Wallis continues to sound gloriously human. Released…
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7/10 A Must-Watch, Must Listen To, and Must See Live Band! Akrobat’s new single “Dirty Gathering” arrives like a slow leak of tension through concrete. Nothing about it rushes to impress you. Instead, it coils itself gradually around atmosphere, restraint and unease, revealing a band increasingly comfortable in mood, texture and ambiguity rather than obvious…
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There’s a rare kind of artist who doesn’t simply write songs but builds emotional landscapes people quietly carry with them long after the music stops. Irish singer-songwriter Molly O’Mahony belongs firmly in that category. With her new album, O’Mahony delivers a body of work shaped by love, grief, uncertainty, nature, and the emotional static of…
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9/10 *Part of our throwback album review series. With Blindness, The Murder Capital have delivered the strongest and most fully realised record of their career so far. Not because it is cleaner or more commercially accessible, but because the band finally sound completely unconcerned with fitting neatly inside the increasingly exhausted “post-punk revival” label that…
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8/10 *Part of our throwback album review series. With Open Wide, Inhaler finally sound less concerned with escaping the shadow hanging over them and more focused on becoming the band they were probably always heading towards. For years, lazy discourse around the Dublin four-piece revolved around lineage rather than music. But by the time Open…
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Throwback Review 10/10 *Part of our throwback album review series. Looking back now, The Clearing feels like the album where Wolf Alice stopped trying to prove themselves to anybody. By the time the record arrived in 2025, the band had already survived the strange modern trajectory from indie darlings to Mercury Prize winners to one…
