New year, new tunes, new playlist. In 2024 this playlist highlighted 1981 tracks from Irish artists – you can look back at last year’s playlist below. We’ve started off 2025 afresh with a selection of new Irish tunes and some that may have passed you by over the last month.
This week’s selection features ‘America’ from Ten Hail Marys debut EP ‘Faults I May Have’ – read our review here and ‘Bills’ from Leo Miyagee and Eulogy’s new collaborative project ‘Vein Of Folly’. Indeed the collaborative flavour of 2024 continues apace into 2025 with Ryan Mack & Robert Grace (Memories), Cacel & $ona Blu$ (Act 6), Jena Keating & Kawrii Craic (Curtains), Stephen James Smith & Wallis Bird (We’ll All Rise), and Ahmed,with Love, Curtisy and Kylté (Bronco Loko.) all connecting on brand new collabs while Belfast siblings Lucy and Thomas Gaffney get the band back together with their first new tunes as MMODE since 2017.
And speaking of debut EPs NI’s Makeshift Art Bar have delivered ‘Lacklustre Writing Makes Fundamental Reading’ featuring new single ‘Sonic Shelf’, while mysterious dance act Playmint deliver their debut single ‘Space Bar’. Up-and-comer Joe Butler best-known for ‘Suckin’ Diesel’ with KhakiKid returns with new single ‘Darkside’.
There’s also new material from Laurie Shaw, Namara, Alex Konchar, Jamie Orr and Elbé to sink your ears into. If you’d like to be considered for this playlist fill in the form here.