Irish albums

In the 1950s rock and roll was created through the mixing of already existing styles - soul, country and blues. More so blues, as Muddy Waters told on ‘The Blues Had A Baby And They Named It Rock And Roll'. These styles were inherited from…

In 2017, we had a spate of talented female solo artists come to the fore – Ailbhe Reddy, Loah and Katie Laffan to name a few. But the one that stamped her presence on the Irish music scene in the form of an album was Marlene Enright. She…

Calling a musician a ‘sonic architect’  is a pretentious accusation, and one of the biggest signifiers that the writer is leaning hard on hoary clichés. Eoin French, who records under the name Talos is, however, both a musician and a former…

The opening track on Fangclub’s eponymous debut album – Bullet Head – breezes past in a nifty two minutes flat. The whole record races from one end to the other in just over thirty. Fangclub aren’t hanging around. They come in, do the work…

NO ENCORE once again turns back the clock in order to evaluate a select group of Irish albums from a given year. This time out the team are 2002-bound - a simpler era when Roy Keane caused a national uproar, nu metal was still making an…