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The best band in the country already has three albums out. Trá Pháidín's music strikes this absolutely gorgeous middle ground between post-rock, jazz and Irish traditional music. Under the surface, landscape, infrastructure and psyche combine.
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Sophie Moon's debut single comes with two versions - one a lowercase acoustic pop piece, another in all caps and breakbeats with lxverboy. The low-res video is weaponised nostalgia.
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It's a story about the tension between industry and DIY, between going global and putting your friends on, between NEW MUSIC OTW and unexpected zip file. Between major label, indie label, and just hitting upload.
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Lessons learned about the archive from a handful of livestreams from empty venues, some shit I have lying around on my SD card, and Limerick's spirit of defiance.
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We're so back? From the Bandcamp tapes all the way up to the charts - maybe Irish hip-hop is better than ever? NUXSENSE has been operating at peak efficiency, dropping EP after EP of work that by right should skyrocket them into the international hip-hop underground, Kojaque and
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Spotify has an algorithmically generated "daily wellness" playlist that's just clips of meditation podcasts cut with generic-sounding lo-fi hip-hop beats and Bressie interludes. Its local coverage is almost entirely dead.
If you really wanted, you could make the argument that this is the album Enya would make if she knew who Dril was.