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Dean: Burglar put their own spin on Generation X mimicry
“Their songs are a veritable Lollapalooza of unflashy guitar play, stark aesthetics, gentle melodies, interlocking guy-girl vocal harmonies, and the spirit of Fugazi.”
Dean: John Blek’s aching folk music is comfortingly familiar
“I’ve found myself drawn to The Midnight Ache during the recent rainy days.”
With glockenspiels and violin bows, KiiKO creates pop that is “dreamy and infinite in scale”
Hopefully it’ll create something like a musical bridge between Ireland and Japan in some way, says Emmy Shigeta, whose lyrics are sung almost entirely in Japanese.
Dean: Flynn Johnson’s debut album basks in beautiful nostalgia
“And Johnson is a good rapper, fluid and multifaceted, ‘fresh like a two back and sides’.”
Dean: Just Mustard still defy categorisation
On their new LP, “it is fascinating to witness how the band interpret what they see as more sunny and melodic into their established brutalism”.
A sessions series continues to lure new audiences to modern harping
“I wanted to take the harp out of the drawing room, even out of the pub."
Dean: Zoé Basha and Martina and The Moons light up an afternoon
From rich interpretations of Appalachian folk to belligerent alt-rock.
The Love and Darkness of Seán “Doctor” Millar
The five-decade music career of the Liberties musician never quite reached the commercial heights that he, and others, had aimed for in his twenties. But is that important, really?
Dean: The classic hiss of Ireland’s first ever Pavement covers album
“I feel confident in declaring this to be the first local release to use such a concept.”
Remembering Brian “The Furrier” Furlong – legendary musician and lover of waistcoats
At the end of August in Donnycarney, his brothers and friends carried his coffin to the sound of one of his last performances.
Dean: For Those I Love’s righteous anger cannot be faked
"Carving the Stone" is a gritty, gripping piece of work forged in fury and frustration at a darkening in the Dublin atmosphere.