How do we do this again? Our weekly round-up of the best new Irish music is back for 2024. The big release of note this week is Sprints’ fantastic 5-star debut album ‘Letter To Self’ which was released via City Slang Records today. Talk about getting the year off to a flyer.
Other notable new releases include the slowburning ‘Locked Up Never Fade’ from Liverpool based NI songwriter Lucy Gaffney, while Lucy McWilliams returns with the based heavy folk tinged shuffle of ‘Follow Me’.
Shoegazers, CABL preview their forthcoming debut EP with the excellent ‘See You In A Year And A Half’, while Modernlove continue their relentless release schedule with new pop rock offering ‘Unfamiliar Ceilings’.
Breakthrough solo artist Moncrieff shares the heartfelt Want You More’ ahead of his Selfcare Tour coming to Ireland later this year. Soul.Temp delivers an impressive debut hip hop joint ‘Darkness’ while Syano and sygh combine beautifully of the laid back groove ‘Outside’
It’s a good start to the year for Irish dance music Arvo Party delivers the infectious ‘Maze’, while Poser follows up his impressive debut year with the groovy ‘ILY’. Video Blue brings his instrumental EP Fiction Tracks to streaming services for the first time and BLK continues his impressive run with ‘PArasomnia’ alongside Circo and Teletech.
If folk is more your thing Anna Mieke has shared a fine live rendition of ‘Red Sun’, newcomer Alex Eydt stakes a claim with his new single ‘My Darling Dear Mother’. Ciaran LAvery meanwhile, celebrates ten years of his ‘Not Nearly Dark’ EP. John Blek continues his experiments with The Broken Strings on ‘Ringing The Bells’ and Sola return with their first new music in 3 years with the release of ‘Origins’.
And if that wasn’t enough to kick start the year there’s also new tunes from Gareth Dunlop, Blue Skies, Neil Brogan, Alice LA, Echo Northstar and Light Grey for your consideration.
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