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A Band Called Wanda – A Band Called Wanda (Self Released)
Alias Empire – Safety In Numbers (Self Released)
And So I Watch You From Afar – All Hail Bright Futures (Sargent House)
The Answer – New Horizon (Napalm)
Axis Of – Finding St Kilda (Smalltown America)
BA And The Honeyboy – Forgotten Books (Beehive Records)
Don Baker – My Songs My Friends (Model Records)
The Battlefield Band - Room Enough For All (Temple Records)
Brendan Begley - Seana Choirce (Gael Linn)
Bell X1 – Chop Chop (Belly Up Records)
Frances Black – Stronger (Dara Records)
John Blek & The Rats – Leave Your Love At The Door (Self Released)
Moya Brennan & Cormac De Barra – Affinity (Beo)
Bressie – Rage & Romance (Sony)
Marc Carroll – Stone Beads & Silver (One Little Indian)
David J. Caron – Thru Ever-Ending Black (Self Released)
Caruso – Everything You Need Is Here (Sad Opera Records)
The Chapters - Blood Feels Warm (Lowwinscreen Records)
Chequerboard – The Unfolding (Self Released)
Clannad – Nadur (Arc Music)
Come On Live Long – Everything Fall (Self Released)
Ultan Conlon – Songs Of love So Cruel (Darksideout Records)
Mary Courtney & Morning Star - Live From the 33rd County (Completely Stone Mad Music)
James Cramer - The Lights of Lasnaskay (Crashed Records)
The Crayon Set – The Crayon Set (Self Released)
Crushed Rose – Ashes in The Wind (Self Released)
The Cujo Family – Stories of Ruin (Self Released)
Dancing Suns – Goldmine (Self Released)
Peter Delaney – Witch Bottle (Out On A Limb)
Delorean Suite – Two Lives (Self Released)
Dervish – The Thrush in the Storm (Whirling Discs)
Mary Dillon – North (Black Lane Records)
Eamonn Dowd – Things Aren’t The Way They Used To Be (Spellbound Records)
Doctor Millar – C48 (Mass Market Recordings)
Cat Dowling – The Believer (Can Do Records)
The Duckworth Lewis Method – Sticky Wickets (DCR)
The Dudley Corporation – Everyone Does Everything Wrong (Scientific Laboratories)
Niamh Dunne – Portraits (Self Released)
Dirty Epics – One Way Mirror (Scar)
Empire Saints – Product (Self Released)
Evora – Hurry Up Before I Die (Self Released)
BP Fallon & The Bandits – Still Legal (Vibrosonic)
Mick Fitzgerald – Still Live (Self Released)
Girls Names – The New Life (Tough Love)
Eoin Glacken – Rain Finally Came (Tuleen Music)
Glimmermen – I’m Dead (Transduction Records)
God Is An Astronaut – Origins (Rocket Girl)
Gypsy Rebel Rabble – Take My China (Excellent Guitar Riff Man Records)
Halves – Hoa Howl (Hate Is The Enemy)
Ray Heffernan & The Grand Canal Band – New Dress Woven (Self Released)
Eamonn Hehir – The Flag Listeners (Self Released)
Heritage Centre – Allright, Check It Out (Inactive Records)
Hounds: - Spacemad (Self Released)
Hidden Highways – Old Hearts Reborn (Out on A Limb)
Brian Hughes - The Beat of the Breath (Cló Iar–Chonnacht)
I Am The Cosmos – Monochrome ( Self Released)
Jetplane Landing – Don’tTry (Smalltown America)
Vince Keenan, Paddy Egan & Friends - Nights in Shanaglish (Self Released)
Kodaline – In A Perfect World (B-Unique/Sony)
Dermot Lambert – Tiny (Garage Records)
Las Vegas Basement – Cheap Guitars & Pretty Girls (Las Vegas Basement)
The Last Sound – Rainbow Xplode (Oaska)
Lie Ins – Death to Lie Ins (Self Released)
Little Green Cars – Absolute Zero (Glassnote/Island)
David Long – Water Has Memory (Ailts Records)
Lowmountain – DNA (Self Released)
Lumiere - My Dearest Dear (IRL)
Katherine Lynch – Settling Dust (Crashed Music)
Mano Le Tough – Changing Days (Self Released)
Sean Mac Donnchadha - Bruach na Beirtrí (Gael Linn)
Barry McCormack – Cut Throat Lane (Hag’s Head)
Rachel McCormack – This Is my Identity (W Studios)
Eleanor McEvoy – If You Leave (Moscodisc)
Brendan Monaghan - Never Too Late To Come Home (Brambus)
Nigel Mooney – The Bohemian Mooney (Lyte Records)
Keith Moss – What Eludes You Moves You (Reekus)
Bernadette Morris - All the Ways You Wander (Self Released)
Aoife Murray – Aoife (Self Released)
My Bloody Valentine – MPV (Self Released)
Nanu Nanu –Unit 1 (Flaming June Records)
Colin Nea - Between the Jigs & the Reels (Self Released)
Lisa O’ Neill – Same Cloth Or Not (Song Seeds Records)
The David Nelligan Thing – Dark Matters (Self Released)
Padraigin NÍ Uallachain - Songs of the Scribe (Ceoltaí Éireann)
Muireann NIC Amhlaoibh - Ar Uair Bhig an Lae (The Small Hours) (Self Released)
Val Normal – Plans? What Plans? (CYOF Records)
O Emperor – Vitreous (Big Skin)
Mick O’ Grady, Jess Smith & John Blake- At My Grandmother’s Knee, and Other Such Joints) Self Released)
The Pale – 21 Song Salute (1969 Records)
Picturehouse – Evolution (Picturehouse Recordings)
Red Queen Contest – Red Queen Contest (Doldrums Records)
Marie Reilly - The Anvil – A Dedication to Michael Reilly (Self Released)
Rest – I Hold The Wolf (Out On A Limb)
The Radioactive Grandma – The Radioactive Grandma (CYOF Records)
The River Cry – The River Cry (Betrothed Records)
The Mary Ryan Blues Trio – Trimmed and Burning (Mirst)
RSAG – Rotate (A Rare Production)
Liz Seaver – Turbulent Bliss (Self Released)
Enda Seery - Síocháin na Tuaithe – Peace in the Countryside (Self Released)
Ann Scott – Venus To The Sky (Raghorse Records)
Sights Distorted – Last Lighs (Self Released)
Declan Sinnott - I Love the Noise it Makes (Warner Music)
Sirocco – Lambay (Self Released)
Stepaside – Straitjacket (Criminal Records)
The Strypes – Snapshot (Virgin/EMI)
Shoctopus – Brand New Kind Of Madness (Self Released)
Socks In The Frying Pan - Socks in the Frying Pan (Own Label)
Solar Bears – Supermigration (Self Released)
Sontas – Prospect Road (Self Released)
Solas – Shamrock City (THL Records)
Sounds Of System Breakdown – Nomad (Self Released)
The Spikes – Joylist (Thickneck Records)
Strange Boats – Gnome (Terrible Twin Records)
Swords – Lions & Gold (Self Released)
Eileen Tackney – South (Self Released)
Niall Thomas – Breathe Easy (Self Released)
Niall Toner – Onwards & Upwards (Pinecastle Music)
Theme Tuneboy – Return of The Living Dead (Self Released)
TV After Midnight - Arrivals (Self Released)
Foy Vance – Joy Of Nothing (Glassnote Records)
Villagers – Awayland (Domino)
Von Shakes – Bohemia (Von Records LTD)
The Winers – Riches (Sonic Justice)
Ger Wolfe – I Have Been Loved (Raggedy)
The Would Be’s – Beautiful Mess (FIFA Records)
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Please note: The below list of albums is NOT a definitive list of every Irish album released this year at the time of publication. Any additions and corrections should be emailed to [email protected]. The list will be updated and/or amended each week until the end of December.
A Band Called Wanda – A Band Called Wanda (Self Released)
Alias Empire – Safety In Numbers (Self Released)
And So I Watch You From Afar – All Hail Bright Futures (Sargent House)
The Answer – New Horizon (Napalm)
Axis Of – Finding St Kilda (Smalltown America)
BA And The Honeyboy – Forgotten Books (Beehive Records)
Don Baker – My Songs My Friends (Model Records)
The Battlefield Band - Room Enough For All (Temple Records)
Brendan Begley - Seana Choirce (Gael Linn)
Bell X1 – Chop Chop (Belly Up Records)
Frances Black – Stronger (Dara Records)
John Blek & The Rats – Leave Your Love At The Door (Self Released)
Moya Brennan & Cormac De Barra – Affinity (Beo)
Bressie – Rage & Romance (Sony)
Marc Carroll – Stone Beads & Silver (One Little Indian)
David J. Caron – Thru Ever-Ending Black (Self Released)
Caruso – Everything You Need Is Here (Sad Opera Records)
The Chapters - Blood Feels Warm (Lowwinscreen Records)
Chequerboard – The Unfolding (Self Released)
Clannad – Nadur (Arc Music)
Come On Live Long – Everything Fall (Self Released)
Ultan Conlon – Songs Of love So Cruel (Darksideout Records)
Mary Courtney & Morning Star - Live From the 33rd County (Completely Stone Mad Music)
James Cramer - The Lights of Lasnaskay (Crashed Records)
The Crayon Set – The Crayon Set (Self Released)
Crushed Rose – Ashes in The Wind (Self Released)
The Cujo Family – Stories of Ruin (Self Released)
Dancing Suns – Goldmine (Self Released)
Peter Delaney – Witch Bottle (Out On A Limb)
Delorean Suite – Two Lives (Self Released)
Dervish – The Thrush in the Storm (Whirling Discs)
Mary Dillon – North (Black Lane Records)
Eamonn Dowd – Things Aren’t The Way They Used To Be (Spellbound Records)
Doctor Millar – C48 (Mass Market Recordings)
Cat Dowling – The Believer (Can Do Records)
The Duckworth Lewis Method – Sticky Wickets (DCR)
The Dudley Corporation – Everyone Does Everything Wrong (Scientific Laboratories)
Niamh Dunne – Portraits (Self Released)
Dirty Epics – One Way Mirror (Scar)
Empire Saints – Product (Self Released)
Evora – Hurry Up Before I Die (Self Released)
BP Fallon & The Bandits – Still Legal (Vibrosonic)
Mick Fitzgerald – Still Live (Self Released)
Girls Names – The New Life (Tough Love)
Eoin Glacken – Rain Finally Came (Tuleen Music)
Glimmermen – I’m Dead (Transduction Records)
God Is An Astronaut – Origins (Rocket Girl)
Gypsy Rebel Rabble – Take My China (Excellent Guitar Riff Man Records)
Halves – Hoa Howl (Hate Is The Enemy)
Ray Heffernan & The Grand Canal Band – New Dress Woven (Self Released)
Eamonn Hehir – The Flag Listeners (Self Released)
Heritage Centre – Allright, Check It Out (Inactive Records)
Hounds: - Spacemad (Self Released)
Hidden Highways – Old Hearts Reborn (Out on A Limb)
Brian Hughes - The Beat of the Breath (Cló Iar–Chonnacht)
I Am The Cosmos – Monochrome ( Self Released)
Jetplane Landing – Don’tTry (Smalltown America)
Vince Keenan, Paddy Egan & Friends - Nights in Shanaglish (Self Released)
Kodaline – In A Perfect World (B-Unique/Sony)
Dermot Lambert – Tiny (Garage Records)
Las Vegas Basement – Cheap Guitars & Pretty Girls (Las Vegas Basement)
The Last Sound – Rainbow Xplode (Oaska)
Lie Ins – Death to Lie Ins (Self Released)
Little Green Cars – Absolute Zero (Glassnote/Island)
David Long – Water Has Memory (Ailts Records)
Lowmountain – DNA (Self Released)
Lumiere - My Dearest Dear (IRL)
Katherine Lynch – Settling Dust (Crashed Music)
Mano Le Tough – Changing Days (Self Released)
Sean Mac Donnchadha - Bruach na Beirtrí (Gael Linn)
Barry McCormack – Cut Throat Lane (Hag’s Head)
Rachel McCormack – This Is my Identity (W Studios)
Eleanor McEvoy – If You Leave (Moscodisc)
Brendan Monaghan - Never Too Late To Come Home (Brambus)
Nigel Mooney – The Bohemian Mooney (Lyte Records)
Keith Moss – What Eludes You Moves You (Reekus)
Bernadette Morris - All the Ways You Wander (Self Released)
Aoife Murray – Aoife (Self Released)
My Bloody Valentine – MPV (Self Released)
Nanu Nanu –Unit 1 (Flaming June Records)
Colin Nea - Between the Jigs & the Reels (Self Released)
Lisa O’ Neill – Same Cloth Or Not (Song Seeds Records)
The David Nelligan Thing – Dark Matters (Self Released)
Padraigin NÍ Uallachain - Songs of the Scribe (Ceoltaí Éireann)
Muireann NIC Amhlaoibh - Ar Uair Bhig an Lae (The Small Hours) (Self Released)
Val Normal – Plans? What Plans? (CYOF Records)
O Emperor – Vitreous (Big Skin)
Mick O’ Grady, Jess Smith & John Blake- At My Grandmother’s Knee, and Other Such Joints) Self Released)
The Pale – 21 Song Salute (1969 Records)
Picturehouse – Evolution (Picturehouse Recordings)
Red Queen Contest – Red Queen Contest (Doldrums Records)
Marie Reilly - The Anvil – A Dedication to Michael Reilly (Self Released)
Rest – I Hold The Wolf (Out On A Limb)
The Radioactive Grandma – The Radioactive Grandma (CYOF Records)
The River Cry – The River Cry (Betrothed Records)
The Mary Ryan Blues Trio – Trimmed and Burning (Mirst)
RSAG – Rotate (A Rare Production)
Liz Seaver – Turbulent Bliss (Self Released)
Enda Seery - Síocháin na Tuaithe – Peace in the Countryside (Self Released)
Ann Scott – Venus To The Sky (Raghorse Records)
Sights Distorted – Last Lighs (Self Released)
Declan Sinnott - I Love the Noise it Makes (Warner Music)
Sirocco – Lambay (Self Released)
Stepaside – Straitjacket (Criminal Records)
The Strypes – Snapshot (Virgin/EMI)
Shoctopus – Brand New Kind Of Madness (Self Released)
Socks In The Frying Pan - Socks in the Frying Pan (Own Label)
Solar Bears – Supermigration (Self Released)
Sontas – Prospect Road (Self Released)
Solas – Shamrock City (THL Records)
Sounds Of System Breakdown – Nomad (Self Released)
The Spikes – Joylist (Thickneck Records)
Strange Boats – Gnome (Terrible Twin Records)
Swords – Lions & Gold (Self Released)
Eileen Tackney – South (Self Released)
Niall Thomas – Breathe Easy (Self Released)
Niall Toner – Onwards & Upwards (Pinecastle Music)
Theme Tuneboy – Return of The Living Dead (Self Released)
TV After Midnight - Arrivals (Self Released)
Foy Vance – Joy Of Nothing (Glassnote Records)
Villagers – Awayland (Domino)
Von Shakes – Bohemia (Von Records LTD)
The Winers – Riches (Sonic Justice)
Ger Wolfe – I Have Been Loved (Raggedy)
The Would Be’s – Beautiful Mess (FIFA Records)
http://www.choicemusicprize.com/2013-albums-list.html