Music Review

Way back in 2008, Pitchfork’s Ian Cohen wrote that “an ability to easily find free music combined with user-friendly web technology” meant that trying to keep up with new artists and bands was starting to feel “less like a labor of love…

Ezra Williams is a singer-songwriter based in Cork, Ireland. With soft vocals and understated instrumentals, Supernumeraries showcases Williams’s songwriting abilities. Using acoustic and the occasional electric guitar, Williams shows a…

After just six years, Grian Chatten is already well on his way to completing music. As the frontman and chief lyricist for Irish post-punk outfit Fontaines D.C., he’s already achieved success and accolades that some artists work decades…

Dream Wife describe their third LP, Social Lubrication, as “hyper lusty rock and roll with a political punch, exploring the alchemy of attraction, the lust for life”. Entirely self-produced and composed, its a proposition that yields…

Given the avant-garde and anti-essentialist philosophy behind the music of The Bonk, the current project of former O Emperor alumni Phil Christie, it seems like a fool’s errand to try and translate and analyse their music using mere…

When The National dropped ‘Tropic Morning News’ as the lead single for their new album in January, it very much felt like the Cincinnati indie icons had delivered a top tier track to rival their 2007-2013 peak (the four records from Boxer…

When you’re reviewing a three-track mixtape, you would think you’d struggle for things to say. After all, writing about 13 track albums puts a fierce strain on my long-suffering wordcount (although a lot of that comes from writing…

Nearly ten years and now three albums into his career, Belfast-based musician Mark McCambridge has made quite the impression thus far under his Arborist alias. First came his breakout debut Home Burial in 2016, which was then followed by a…

Now is All is the second solo album from Swimmers Jackson. Starting as a trio called Swimmers, the album is the follow up to 2020’s Murmuration, which in turn follows the releases of EPs Swimmer’s Year and This Burning Circus in 2013…

David Kitt is standing near the water. Behind him, the Skellig Islands are looming in all their austere glory. His face is peaceful and his eyes are closed. He’s wearing a homemade tricorn hat. It might be made of tinfoil. This image is…