Welcome to this week’s round-up of the best new Irish music featuring releases from Kojaque, Smoothboi Ezra, Villagers, Jehnova and more.

Villagers share a highly encouraging glimpse of their upcoming fifth studio album with the soulful psych-rock of The First Day while relative newcomer Smoothboi Ezra feels Stuck in a relationship that’s losing steam on their melancholy single.

The X Collective present their brand of soulful pop on WB featuring a raucous saxophone lead instrumental and impressive performances from vocalists Gemma Bradley, Zapho, Senita, Chloë Agnew and Toshin.

Berlin by way of Dublin there piece Varley shared the highly listenable dance-pop of Push Pull while TOYGIRL experimented with rock drums and glitchy vocal effects on Water.

It was big week for hip-hop, with Kojaque clapping back against gentrification over a Girl Band sample on Towns Dead while Nxsense member and Nealo collaborator Jehnova spits relentlessly over the woozy lo-fi instrumental of ressa. Belfast’s Jordan Adetunji and Dublin’s Rikshaw represented the club-friendly side of the genre with Riot and Kamikaze respectively.

Speaking of rickshaws, Late Night Pharmacy enlisted The Scratch producer Aiden Cunningham for Too Late For The Rickshaws while David Keenan got weird with the Dylanesque stream-of-consciousness non-sequiturs of Peter O’Toole’s Drinking Stories.

It’s been an equally exciting time for Belfast’s electronic scene, with the Bicep boys sharing the Burial influenced dystopian garage of Siena and Ejeca releasing the pummelling breakbeats of Pusher onto streaming services.

If that wasn’t enough, this week also saw the release of tracks from Uwmami, J Smith, Sarah McTernan, The Sei, Chaya, Jessica Hammond, VJ Jaxson, J.F.O, Luke Dunleavy and more.

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