Mark Lanegan and Duke Garwood – With Animals – Album Review by Killian Laher This is Mark Lanegan’s second full length album collaboration with Duke Garwood, and it mostly consists of dark, […]
Papa M – A Broke Moon Rises – Album Review by Killian Laher After the somewhat ropey Highway Songs in 2016, David Pajo is back with another Papa M album. Back to […]
Clearance – At Your Leisure – Album Review by Killian Laher American band Clearance have seemingly moved away from their nineties-evoking slacker roots and embraced their poppy side on their second album, […]
Cowboy Junkies – All That Reckoning – Album Review by Killian Laher All That Reckoning is the first album in six years from the Cowboy Junkies, appearing 30 years on from their […]
RVG – A Quality of Mercy – Album Review by Killian Laher A Quality of Mercy, the debut album from Australian band RVG, was quietly released late last year, but is now […]
The National – Boxer live in Brussels – Album Review by Killian Laher Two strange concepts clash head on here. First: the ‘live’ album, or rather, a recording of a band live […]
Nine Inch Nails – Bad Witch EP – Review by Killian Laher Bad Witch is either a short album or a very long EP, the third in a series of three, depending […]
Protomartyr – Consolation EP – Review by Killian Laher Protomartyr do not make music to put on in the background. Their music grabs you viscerally by the lapels, commanding you to pay […]
Girls Names – Stains on Silence – Album Review by Killian Laher Having parted ways with former drummer Gib Cassidy, Belfast band Girls Names return with their fourth album. After 2013’s The […]
Stuart A Staples – Arrhythmia – Album Review by Killian Laher Stuart A Staples releases his first solo album away from Tindersticks in thirteen years. This time around it’s less song-based than […]
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Hope Downs – Album Review by Killian Laher Australian band Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have built up a hefty dose of excitement thanks to two excellent EPs. […]
Hilary Woods – Colt – Album Review by Cathy Brown Hilary Woods has been making music since her school days as part of Dublin indie rock band JJ72. They split in 2006 […]
Library Tapes – Patterns (Repeat) – Album Review by Killian Laher Library Tapes is the recording name of Swedish composer David Wenngren. Wenngren has been quietly releasing short half hour or so […]
Lump – Lump – Album Review Release date: Friday, June 1st 2018 If you’re wondering who Lump are, they are the duo of Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay. While Marling is a […]
John Parish – Bird Dog Dante- Album Review John Parish isn’t as well known as he probably should be. Despite his various releases and his work with artists such as PJ Harvey (as […]
Father John Misty – God’s Favorite Customer – Album Review Released on 1st of June LIVE :: BBC Biggest Weekend, Belfast – 25 May Vicar Street, Dublin – 28, 29 & 30 […]
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – Sparkle Hard – Album Review by Killian Laher Stephen Malkmus returns with his seventh album with his rockist band the Jicks. Cast Off opens with plaintive […]
Ryley Walker – Deafman Glance – Album Review by Killian Laher Ryley Walker first came to prominence with a pair of folky, singer-songwriter albums (All Kinds of You and Primrose Green), both […]
We’re only in May and already there have been some excellent ambient releases in 2018. Thanks to our friends at The Mouthchew, here are three superb, headphone-ready releases to transport you to […]
Beach House – 7 – Album Review by Cathy Brown 7 is Beach House’s seventh album and it sees duo Victoria LeGrand and Alex Scally explore new territory without sacrificing the quintessential […]
Launder – Pink Cloud – Review by Killian Laher Pink Cloud is the debut EP of John Cudlip. It opens with the lazy, hazy guitar riffs of Wonder, underpinned by an airtight […]
Okkervil River – In The Rainbow Rain – Album Review “When I had my tracheotomy, I was blue and stopped breathing, there was something wrong with me.” We are introduced to this […]
Grouper – Grid Of Points – Album Review by Cathy Brown When Liz Harris began recording as Grouper twelve years ago, her elusive songs were guitar focused affairs making judicious use of […]
Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert – Here Lies The Body – Album Review by Killian Laher One of the highlights of both Aidan Moffat and RM Hubbert’s material in the last six […]
The Hedge Schools – Magnificent Birds – Album Review by Killian Laher Released on 5th May 2018 In an age of short attention spans, online outrage over just about anything, and a […]
Damien Jurado – The Horizon Just Laughed (Secretly Canadian) – Released on May 4th The album opens with the guitar and string track Allocate, which drifts softly past the listener in a […]
The Amazing – In Transit – Album Review by Killian Laher Swedish band The Amazing released one of the albums of the year in 2016’s Ambulance. The follow-up, their fifth album overall […]
Preoccupations – New Material – Album Review by Killian Laher Canadian post-punk outfit Preoccupations are back with their second album as Preoccupations and third overall (band was formerly known as Viet Cong). […]
Yo La Tengo – There’s A Riot Going On – Album Review by Killian Laher Yo La Tengo return with what appears to be their fifteenth album, and their first album of […]
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