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"June is deeply associated with Áine, the Irish goddess of summer, fertility, love, and sovereignty, whose presence is especially felt around the midsummer season."
It was “a long night of performances with majesty, grace and a sense of thematic cohesions”.
With Chaos For the Fly, the Fontaines D.C. singer “looks inward, seeking emotional precision”.
It’s “an ode to boys who modify their Ford Fiestas with gleaming rims, booming sound systems, gaudy LED lights and spoilers the size of Samuel Beckett Bridge”.
“One of the year’s best Irish albums so far … this is an album for summers outside of urban trappings, right in time for the season.”
His first album, Twilight Transmissions, is “an impressive manifesto from a premier voice in Irish electronic music right now”.
On it, they “incorporate various styles, tones and flavours … Most dominant is a feeling that this is music that could appear in a 1990s Hollywood teen comedy and/or teen slacker flick.”
Throughout his debut album, “796”, the musician returns time and again to the tragedy, ensuring his fury hits every deserving target.
“Now, to mark its 40th anniversary, a new reissue has been released, offering the perfect chance for rediscovery.”
Both have new albums out, and they’re both Irish album-of-the-year contenders, writes our reviewer.
“Across a full-length album, Jermiside and The Expert fit together like puzzle pieces, complementing each other’s styles as two separate entities that synthesise perfectly.”
“The duo are in the great lineage of rappers who quickly pass the mic back and forth, providing the ying to the other’s yangs, two kindred souls kindling together.”
His three-song project “Limited Edition”, due for release 15 July, is “the sort of music you could listen to every week of a permanent summer”.