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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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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…
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8/10 There is something quietly cinematic about “Darlin’”, the new release from Irish collective AINM, but not in the overly polished or self-conscious way that term often gets thrown around. Instead, the track feels expansive because it understands atmosphere. It understands restraint. It allows space to exist between the notes. Originally beginning life as a…
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9/10 There’s a very fine line when artists cover Fix You. Get it wrong and it becomes karaoke wrapped in expensive production. Get it right and you uncover something hidden inside the song that listeners forgot was there. Sonaírí achieved the latter. Irish duo Sonaírí, consisting of Irish soprano Amie Dyer and tenor David Corr,…
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I have read over the World Happiness Report 2026 a few times now. Full disclosure, I am neurodivergent, and sometimes I need to read, re-read, and then put something down and come back to it so my brain can properly take in what the data is actually telling us. What is the story and the…
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Caro Claire Burke’s Yesteryear feels perfectly calibrated for this cultural moment. A novel obsessed with nostalgia, memory and reinvention, it interrogates why modern society remains so addicted to romanticising the past. Part literary fiction, part cultural critique, the novel has already generated enormous attention ahead of its forthcoming film adaptation starring Anne Hathaway, who is…
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8/10 Daði Freyr has always occupied a curious space in modern pop. Too eccentric to be conventional chart-pop, too emotionally sincere to be dismissed as novelty, and too musically sharp to fade into the endless algorithmic sludge currently swallowing the genre whole. Like many others, you may have first discovered Daði in 2020 with his…
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Our Rating: 10/10 There is a fine line between evolution and repetition in pop, and Olivia Rodrigo has spent the last few years walking it carefully. “Drop Dead” lands as a calculated step forward, not a reinvention, but a tightening of what already works. At surface level, the track holds all the hallmarks of her…
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There is a particular kind of pop song that does not just arrive; it carries people with it. With “So Long, Solo”, Collette Brady-McEntee steps firmly into that space. Written within a collaborative songwriting environment and shaped by the hands of experienced writers, the track holds both scale and substance. It is built on connection,…
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