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Showing posts with label Dublin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dublin. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Soft On Crime and the sweetly graced rock indie glow of "Favourite Band" (Official Video)

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"he's going out  to see his favorite band / the old tour t-shirt looks good / down front he stands / conducts with his hands / grab...
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

M(h)aol and avant alt rock reveals of Period Sex (Official Video)

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  "Allow me to be clear / There's no gender essentialism here..." "Period Sex" by Dublin, Ireland's always inter...
Wednesday, November 30, 2022

M(h)aol and the politico punk mirror of "Asking For It" (Official Video)

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  Photo by Naomi Williams The statistics are staggering. 1 in 4 women have been raped, 1 in 10 men have been raped. 29% of female students, ...
Friday, August 12, 2022

TV People and the brooding, rapturous post punkery of "Circle"

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  original photo by Nicholas O'Donnell Pop music today, bleh. Many of the songs revolve around an easy circular pattern of 2 or 3 chords...
Sunday, July 10, 2022

Plastic Cowboys and the big indie rock sweep of "Mundane Ecstasy"

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  "eyes of blue, a darkness shining over you..." The big passionate sweep of "Mundane Ecstasy" despites it's sort of...
Monday, January 24, 2022

SPRINTS and the tight clenched alt rock / post punk fist of "Little Fix"

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  "it’s a subtle suffocation / a tiny little fix / they’re playing with fire and I’m playing with matchsticks..." The raucous, alt...
Monday, July 12, 2021

Plastic Cowboys and the sweet and sour post punk tersity of "Clichéd Ciggy Smoker"

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  Photo by She Bop Imagery From the Westmeath area of Ireland, Plastic Cowboys are an artful indie rock duo made up of Ciaran McGann (vox an...
Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Villagers and the expansive celebratory "The First Day" (Official Video)

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  "on the first day of the rest of your life..." Villagers' swelling and breathing piece of cinematic pop "The First Day...
Sunday, April 25, 2021

Mary Bleeds and the brooding post punk scars of "Seal" (Official Video)

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  "son, you better stay still...." Dublin's Mary Bleeds stir up a dark atmosphere, exorcise something from the toxic manifesto...
Monday, March 29, 2021

All The Queen's Horses and the naked dark passion of "The Ides Of March"

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  "All my wings were damaged. all my scars were unsung..." So often now, bathing a lead vocal in a wash of effects from distortion...
Saturday, June 20, 2020

Sprints' punk diatribe of LGBTQ empowerment "The Cheek"

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"he said baby are you straight, he said baby are you straight" A strident punk diatribe of LGBTQ empowerment...
Tuesday, April 7, 2020

INSIDEAWAVE's ethereal indie rock prose of "Ivy Honey"

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"Down duvet keep the windows closed" Ivy Honey by Dublin's INSIDEAWAVE has a soft soothing, almost hypnotic...
Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Ireland's Iliad's multiplying divisive "Yannaroddy" rocks and more

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"Who is Tom?" Iliad have a lot to say even though they are essentially an instrumental rock outfit. I mean, take a look at ...
Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Dublin's TV People garage indie punk has got "that" sound on "Kitchen Sinking"

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photo Nicholas O'Donnell When I first pushed play on the track Kitchen Sinking by Dublin 4-piece indie rock band TV Peo...
Thursday, January 10, 2019

"Another Version" by Chirpy feels like psychedelic dark chamber pop

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The track Another Version by Chirpy (the musical moniker of Rebecca Shannon) is a multi layered musical cake. There are a lot of varied v...
Thursday, November 15, 2018

The Family Knife out of Dublin, Ireland and the hazy dreamscape of "Golden Soundz"

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Golden Soundz by The Family Knife feels dreamy with stacked vocal harmonies and guitars creating this ghostly fog of sonic images. I real...
Sunday, August 26, 2018

The stark, haunting "Go Easy" from dark dream pop songstress Chirpy

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Chirpy  (the moniker of Rebecca Shannon) - singer songwriter / producer from Dublin, Ireland crafts kind of dark dream pop / folk and, in ...
Monday, July 2, 2018

Silverbacks - art rock pushed through proto punk filters on "Dunkirk"

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Oh hell yeah... the track Dunkirk by Dublin art punk rockers Silverbacks feels a bit like the proto punk / art r...
Saturday, April 21, 2018

Out of Dublin- Motions' "Waiting To Tell You"

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Waiting to Tell You by Motions  has chill spartan moments but big lush sounds with walls of transient guitars too (love the guitar sound)...
Sunday, February 19, 2012

AP Review - Sinead O' Connor's ninth album- 'How About I Be Me (And You Be You)?' Shines like a Beacon of Truth.

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Sinead O' Connor's ninth album- 'How About I Be Me (And You Be You)?' shines like a beacon of truth. O'Connor has nev...