In this week’s round-up of the best new Irish music we present for your consideration ‘Mt. Pleasant’ the debut album from Cosha, following a stellar career working with the likes of of Mura Masa and Chic and writing for the likes of Charli XCX Cassia O’Reilly finally delivers her long-awaited debut album featuring a host of big name producers such as Rostam and guest appearances from the likes of Shygirl and Coby Sey.
Villagers returns with So Simpatico, an epic 7-minute slice of psychedelic jazz exploration ahead of the release of his fifth album Fever Dreams on August 20th. There are impressive collaborations between James Vincent McMorrow and Jessie Ware on A Month of Sundays’ new track Lost In LA, while punk poet Sinead O’Brien teams up with Ride/Oasis legend Andy Bell for Glok’s Maintaining The Machine. And not to be outdone Aoife from Whenyoung pops up on Belfast based artist Shibashi’s All The Lights. Fresh from hitting 10m streams on his breakthrough track Fake Fine,TikTok star Robert Grace also gets in on the collaboration game this week, teaming up with Emma Steinbakken for Self.
Inhaler preview their debut album ‘It Won’t Always Be like This’ with new single Totally, Maria Kelly’s purple patch continues with the release of one of her best ever releases, Never Enough.
In terms of hip hop A92 continue to blaze a trail for Irish drill with the release of Mamacita, while collabs from Pop Wallace & Boyfrens, Shollah, Owin & F3mil, and Active & Lloyd John deliver smoother jams, while the likes of Uglyboy & BENJAMYN, Automatic Blue, Ger, R.L. Beats and Misheal blur the lines between hip hop, bedroom pop and RNB.
In rock news, The Altered Hours return with Radiant Wound their second single since signing with Pizza Pizza Records, TV People return with their first single of 2021, Out of the Silence. Dylan Flynn and The Dead Poets deliver another slice of radio friendly MOR with Shine. Black Sheep does the Demon Stomp and Northern Ireland’s Mob Wife share Petri Dish the lead single from their forthcoming debut album.
All this plus new tracks from Erica Cody, Walk The Dance, Warren, Loraine Club, Aonair, Roisin Murphy, Pap Romeo, Pine The Pilcrow. Mano Le Tough, Nnic, Harpsikird, Ria Rua, Three Underneath, O’Sullivan, Sammy Copley, Sarah-Beth, The Ancient Sea and Rónán Ó Snodaigh.
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