
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Breeders – All Nerve – Album Review Release date: Friday, March 2nd 2018 25 May – BELFAST, BBC’s Biggest Weekend Festival 27 May– DUBLIN, Vicar Street For a certain group of […]
No Age – Snares Like A Haircut – Album Review by Killian Laher LA noisy punks No Age return with their first album in four and a half years. It acts as […]
Ezra Furman – Transangelic Exodus – Album Review Released 9th February 2018 on Bella Union Ezra Furman @ Tivoli Theatre in Dublin – Tuesday 29 May 2018, 20:00 “I eat an orange […]
The Courtneys – II – Album Review by Killian Laher The Courtneys are a Canadian three piece who trade in catchy melodies combined with fuzzy guitars. They released their second album a […]
Albums of the Year (2017) – by Cal Byrne 2017 was a year of many very good albums, but probably few great ones. A lot of the big names who released records […]
Peter Oren – Anthropocene – Album Review by Killian Laher American artist Peter Oren releases his second album and the influence of Bill Callahan hangs heavily on it. Maybe it’s the sparse […]
Bonnie Prince Billy – Wolf of the Cosmos – Album Review by Killian Laher Bonnie Prince Billy is not your average artist. This is his second album inside six months where he […]
Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile – Lotta Sea Lice – Album Review by Killian Laher Australian artist Courtney Barnett and American guitarist Kurt Vile have teamed up for a collaborative album which […]
Protomartyr – Relatives in Descent – Album Review by Killian Laher Bands reviving the post-punk sound were everywhere in the early to mid noughties. They captured that nervous, jerky rhythm, slow brooding […]
The War On Drugs – A Deeper Understanding – Album Review by Killian Laher After their breakthrough 2014 album Lost In The Dream which propelled Adam Granduciel and co to critical acclaim, […]
The Last Dinosaur – The Nothing – Album Review by Killian Laher The Last Dinosaur is the recording name of Jamie Cameron, and he has just released his second album. The album […]
Grizzly Bear – Painted Ruins – Album Review by Zara Hedderman From an outsider’s perspective five years is a substantial gap between albums. Such an absence is felt particularly when a band […]
Angelo de Augustine – Swim Inside The Moon – Album Review by Killian Laher Angelo de Augustine is a 24 year-old American songwriter releasing his second album, Swim Inside The Moon. Listening […]
James Elkington – Wintres Woma – Album Review by Killian Laher James Elkington is a highly accomplished guitarist, known for collaborating with Freakwater, Jeff Tweedy, Steve Gunn and Richard Thompson. Until now […]
Jeff Tweedy – Together At Last – Album Review by Killian Laher Jeff Tweedy has recorded a solo acoustic collection of Wilco songs, mostly drawn from Summerteeth, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot & A […]
Dalham – Waves – Album Review by Killiam Laher Electronica outfit Dalham have just released a brief eight track album. At just over twenty minutes in length, an album has to work […]
Thurston Moore – Rock ‘n’ Roll Consciousness – Album Review by Killian Laher Thurston Moore returns with his fourth post-Sonic Youth album. Recorded with a band that includes My Bloody Valentine bassist […]