"I wear my headache like a crown and I wake you up so you can talk me down..."
Singer Songwriter Iain Andrew hails from Dublin and his latest, "Skip To The Good Part", tugs at you from the onset and while Iain might be referred to by some as a folk singer, this track feels more indie rockish. With it's clean jangle pop guitars but heavy bass and drums and Iain's emotional vocal aesthetic that carries with it indie rock and indie pop sensibilities through it's beautifully potent melodies, it (for me) pulls in glorious 90's indie rock atmospheres. I did think of iconic 90's artists like The Jesus and Mary Chain, Deep Blue Something, Third Eye Blind and The Frames or maybe an amalgam of many iconic artists whose songs inhabit the collective consciousness of that fruitful decade.
Like many artists of that time, while the sonic surface feel is jubilant, the lower depths of the song run much darker and that dark underbelly, the nucleic acid of emotional indie rock, really appeals to me (it always has). "Skip To The Good Part" is no exception, as Iain’s third single of 2022 following [‘Overflowed’ - a powerful indie/alt-country song about pouring your heart out to someone who is still hung up on their past love - and ‘The Good Weather Was Supposed To Last Longer’ - a poignant ode to a decaying relationship]. Of the song, Iain shares:
[‘Skip To The Good Part’ is a song I wrote in 2020 about my depression, and the way I treat the people around me because of it. Although it's sonically a somewhat upbeat indie rock song, the lyrics tell another story - confessing my hopeless melancholy to a loved one while asking “what would you do if you felt like I feel?”]
There is a lot of power, of potency, both musically and emotionally, in "Skip To The Good Part". Like strong medicine coated in honey full of catharsis and hard truths to learn from it is one of those songs that, right out of the gate, feels like a classic. A song for the good and bad times.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Based in Dublin, Ireland, Iain Andrew is a folk singer who lays bare his soul through his honest and candid songwriting. His approach blends folk and alternative rock with personal reflections and poetry, depicting the light and dark of the human experience. ‘Skip To The Good Part’ is Iain’s third single of 2022, following ‘Overflowed’ - a powerful indie/alt-country song about pouring your heart out to someone who is still hung up on their past love - and ‘The Good Weather Was Supposed To Last Longer’ - a poignant ode to a decaying relationship. In his most expressive and impassioned work to date, Iain utilises heavy symbolism and metaphors to capture the listener, over a bed of driving instrumentation.
Though he’s been playing music since age 12, it wasn’t until 2019 that Iain found his voice with his debut EP ‘everything is waiting for you’, containing 2 lofi folk songs recorded on an old Tascam cassette portastudio from the 80s. This was followed by ‘i can’t get hurt if i’m alone’, another lofi EP which garnered some modest success, with the title track reaching over 80,000 streams. In this earlier work, Iain took a DIY approach, recording alone in his Dublin city apartment to cassette tape. With his latest work, however, long-time friend and audio engineer Peter Ashmore took the reins at Hellfire Studios in the Dublin mountains, co-producing, engineering, and mixing, as well as playing drums.
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://iainandrew.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0ywlMjAP1Sn2yrXn9oEHQB
https://www.instagram.com/iainandrewmusic/
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/iain-andrew/1478665569
https://www.tiktok.com/@iainandrewmusic
Based in Dublin, Ireland, Iain Andrew is a folk singer who lays bare his soul through his honest and candid songwriting. His approach blends folk and alternative rock with personal reflections and poetry, depicting the light and dark of the human experience. ‘Skip To The Good Part’ is Iain’s third single of 2022, following ‘Overflowed’ - a powerful indie/alt-country song about pouring your heart out to someone who is still hung up on their past love - and ‘The Good Weather Was Supposed To Last Longer’ - a poignant ode to a decaying relationship. In his most expressive and impassioned work to date, Iain utilises heavy symbolism and metaphors to capture the listener, over a bed of driving instrumentation.
Though he’s been playing music since age 12, it wasn’t until 2019 that Iain found his voice with his debut EP ‘everything is waiting for you’, containing 2 lofi folk songs recorded on an old Tascam cassette portastudio from the 80s. This was followed by ‘i can’t get hurt if i’m alone’, another lofi EP which garnered some modest success, with the title track reaching over 80,000 streams. In this earlier work, Iain took a DIY approach, recording alone in his Dublin city apartment to cassette tape. With his latest work, however, long-time friend and audio engineer Peter Ashmore took the reins at Hellfire Studios in the Dublin mountains, co-producing, engineering, and mixing, as well as playing drums.
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Iain Andrew, singer songwriter, folk, indie rock, avant pop, "Skip To The Good Part", catharsis, relationship songs, personal reflections, hard truths,
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