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 […]

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 […]

Perfume Genius – No Shape – Album Review Irish Release Date: Friday, 5 May 2017 LIVE: Electric Picnic, Stradbally – September 2017 Mike Hadreas returns with his first album since ‘Too Bright’ […]

H.Grimace – Self Architect – Album Review by Killian Laher Anglo-Australian band H.Grimace arrive fully formed with an accomplished debut album. It kicks off with the title track, which sets the tone, […]

Golf Lexapro EP – Review by Killian Laher Golf Lexapro is the recording name for New Yorker James Rainis. This debut EP contains slightly ‘off’, nonchalant guitar songs, very reminiscent of Pavement. […]

Sir Was – Digging A Tunnel – Album Review Digging A Tunnel on March 10th via City Slang Sir Was is the work of one man; Joel Wästber. He’s based in Gothenburg, […]

New Music – Jesca Hoop – Memories Are Now Memories Are Now is Jesca’s 7th studio album, and is the follow up to her collaboration with Sam Beam ‘Love Letter for Fire’ […]

Max Richter – Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works – Album Review by Killian Laher Whether you call it modern classical, contemporary post-classical, or post-minimalist, there is no doubt that we are […]

Mark Eitzel – Hey Mr Ferryman – Album Review by Killian Laher Mark Eitzel returns four and a half years on from his last album with what I believe to be his […]

Bonobo – Migration – Album Review Feb 27: DUBLIN, IE – Vicar St. (SOLD OUT) Simon Green aka Bonobo returns with his sixth album – Migration. It has a similar sound and […]

Akira Kosemura – Our Own Picture – Album review by Killian Laher Up and coming Japanese composer Akira Kosemura returns with his first release of 2017, this short three track EP. Opening […]

Irma Vep – No Handshake Blues – Album Review Due 13th January 2017 via Faux Discx & Comfortable on a Tightrope Edwin Stevens is a musician from Manchester-via-North Wales. He has played […]