A beautifully crafted project and concept album, Lux Prima is the brainchild of indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs front woman Karen O and music producer Brian Burton aka Danger Mouse. With each piece identified by a different icon, the nine track song cycle on the theme of darkness and light, love and womanhood was […]
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Lisa Hannigan and s t a r g a z e: Live in Dublin
Dublin-based indie singer songwriter Lisa Hannigan has been touring and recording as a solo artist since 2007. During that time, her sound has been continually expanding – from the quirky, stripped back and self-produced Sea Sew (2008) to the superb chamber-folk At Swim (2016) where the musician immersed her voice into sumptuous orchestral layers. Already […]
Anna Mieke: Idle Mind
I’ve been wandering long… Already a distinguished performer at music festivals across Ireland, Anna-Mieke Bishop is a multi-instrumentalist and singer songwriter originally from Co. Wicklow. A nomad at heart, years of travelling and living in different corners of the world (“from the west of Ireland to Spain to Bangladesh to New Zealand”) have shaped her […]
Cosmo Sheldrake: The Much Much How How and I
Come along catch a Heffalump, Sit with me on a muddy clump, We’ll sing a song of days gone by […] We’ll dance and sing till sundown, And feast with abandon, We’ll sleep when the morning comes, And we’ll rise by the sound of the birdsongs. Come Along Based in London, Cosmo Sheldrake is a […]
Sudan Archives/Sink
My strings propagate Through space and time Here and there At the same time Sudan Archives – Nont for Sale In October 2016, nearly a year prior to her first commercial release, Sudan Archives posted Queen Kunta on YouTube, a cover of Kendrick Lamar’s “King Kunta”. The video clip sees the singer sitting in front […]
Khruangbin: Con Todo El Mundo
“Funky drums, dub bass, melodic guitar, those are the only rules.” Hailing from Houston, Texas and comprised of Donald “DJ” Johnson on drums, Laura Lee on bass and Mark Speer on guitar, Khruangbin is one of the most exciting instrumental three piece (with the odd vocals thrown in) to emerge in recent years. The band […]
