Reviews

Tuesday, 21 February 2012 11:01

Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It

"Listening to Perfume Genius is like being handed a private diary, but one that might be written in blood, sweat or other bodily fluids." - Aoife Barry reviews Put Your Back N 2 It, the second album from Mike Hadreas, aka Perfume Genius.

Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:24

Ferocious Fucking Teeth - S/T

"This is a review for a band called Ferocious Fucking Teeth. Piss off." - Dara Higgins on the debut LP from Conneticut's Ferocious Fucking Teeth.

Tuesday, 14 February 2012 09:51

The Twilight Sad - No One Can Ever Know

"... dark, moody, emotional. Breakup music. Music for the lights out. Music to contemplate the futility of it all."

Monday, 13 February 2012 22:40

Field Music – Plumb

"...there's no air of a grand statement or desire to show off, just a band eager to give full flight to their many ideas."

Thursday, 09 February 2012 22:39

Errors - Have Some Faith In Magic

"...a bold statement from a band that have confidently and defiantly hit their stride." - Ian Maleney on Errors' third LP Have Some Faith In Magic.

Tuesday, 24 January 2012 22:36

Mark Lanegan Band - Blues Funeral

"We may as well be dressed in black, standing by a pile of dirt next to a grave, about to toss a flower onto a wooden casket." - Aoife Barry on Blues Funeral, the new Mark Lanegan Band album.

Tuesday, 10 January 2012 22:04

Earth - Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light II

"Here's a band that are now adept, virtuoso in fact, at playing silence. It's always seemed that it's in the spaces between the notes that they were saying the most." - Dara Higgins finds life on Earth's new album.

Tuesday, 13 December 2011 21:36

Agnes Obel Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, 11th December, 2011

"...a lightness of touch that makes complex compositions and ideas seem like misty clouds floating around your brain, before you wake up from the dream and realise you have just enjoyed a song about a fairytale monster" - Siobhán Kane on Agnes Obel.

Thursday, 08 December 2011 00:11

Bill Ryder Jones - If

"If The Coral were your thing, put down this record and go away. This is not a Coral record."

Wednesday, 07 December 2011 21:19

Liz Green – O Devotion

"X-fucking-Factor it is not, and with such a realised and singular vision she should be applauded" - Dara Higgins on Liz Green's new album O Devotion.