Harmonic Presents
CLOUD CASTLE LAKE
& guests
The Workmans Club
Friday March 27th
Tickets €12.50 (incl booking) from www.ticketmaster.ie & outlets nationwide
Cloud Castle Lake is a three-piece band based in Dublin, Ireland. The band comprises Daniel McAuley, Brendan Jenkinson and Rory O'Connor and often features additional collaborative musicians. The band have supported touring acts such as Glasser, Lisa Hannigan and Nigel Godrich’s Ultraísta and have appeared at festivals all around the country, including Electric Picnic and Body & Soul. They were invited to perform in Toronto at Canadian Music Week, sold out a performance with the Trinity Orchestra in Dublin’s Unitarian Church and played the Turbine Hall in the Tate Modern during London Fashion Week.
Early gigs in Dublin marked them as different, confirming their youthful ambition - equal parts pastoral folk and soaring post-rock crescendos - and bringing them to the attention of a small but growing audience. While their live shows garnered widespread praise, the lack of any recorded material was becoming impossible to ignore. A few weeks spent in a cottage down the country one summer resulted in hours of recordings which have been slowly refined and stripped back to their core elements - recorded, re-recorded, edited, discarded, reimagined - a process that has left only the strongest ideas standing. They are at once atmospheric and dynamic - movements that rise and fall with the voice and swell in the washes of guitar. Most notably, their songs give one a feeling of being somewhere else, aloft with the sound, following its voice.
Released in September 2014, Dandelion is the band’s highly anticipated debut release. It is evidence of a band who have found their feet in their own time. This maturity and patience is matched in the music, filled with a grace, personality and ambition that belies their youth. A long time in the making, this is an impressive opening statement.
“Cloud Castle Lake’s “Sync” begins on that ethereal plane inhabited by the likes of Radiohead and Sigur Rós, with celestial falsetto arching against shapeless moody tones. In time, the song expands into something far more visceral and celebratory — cascading rhythms, triumphal brass, and a general sense of euphoria.” – Stereogum
“It takes most bands three or four albums to pluck up the sort of courage and experimentalism Cloud Castle Lake's debut EP 'Dandelion' seeps from every pore. One for fans of Atoms For Peace, Max Richter and Wild Beasts, the Dublin trio's first release is a heart-bruising ballet of monochrome guitars and sophisticated electronic fizz that marks Daniel McAuley, Brendan Jenkinson and Rory O'Connor as future trail-blazers.” - NME
“ So yes, it is influenced by Radiohead. But Cloud Castle Lake are the extremely rare case where a band incorporates not just the vocals and the rhythmic vibrancy, but also the pioneering spirit.” – Pitchfork
CLOUD CASTLE LAKE
& guests
The Workmans Club
Friday March 27th
Tickets €12.50 (incl booking) from www.ticketmaster.ie & outlets nationwide
Cloud Castle Lake is a three-piece band based in Dublin, Ireland. The band comprises Daniel McAuley, Brendan Jenkinson and Rory O'Connor and often features additional collaborative musicians. The band have supported touring acts such as Glasser, Lisa Hannigan and Nigel Godrich’s Ultraísta and have appeared at festivals all around the country, including Electric Picnic and Body & Soul. They were invited to perform in Toronto at Canadian Music Week, sold out a performance with the Trinity Orchestra in Dublin’s Unitarian Church and played the Turbine Hall in the Tate Modern during London Fashion Week.
Early gigs in Dublin marked them as different, confirming their youthful ambition - equal parts pastoral folk and soaring post-rock crescendos - and bringing them to the attention of a small but growing audience. While their live shows garnered widespread praise, the lack of any recorded material was becoming impossible to ignore. A few weeks spent in a cottage down the country one summer resulted in hours of recordings which have been slowly refined and stripped back to their core elements - recorded, re-recorded, edited, discarded, reimagined - a process that has left only the strongest ideas standing. They are at once atmospheric and dynamic - movements that rise and fall with the voice and swell in the washes of guitar. Most notably, their songs give one a feeling of being somewhere else, aloft with the sound, following its voice.
Released in September 2014, Dandelion is the band’s highly anticipated debut release. It is evidence of a band who have found their feet in their own time. This maturity and patience is matched in the music, filled with a grace, personality and ambition that belies their youth. A long time in the making, this is an impressive opening statement.
“Cloud Castle Lake’s “Sync” begins on that ethereal plane inhabited by the likes of Radiohead and Sigur Rós, with celestial falsetto arching against shapeless moody tones. In time, the song expands into something far more visceral and celebratory — cascading rhythms, triumphal brass, and a general sense of euphoria.” – Stereogum
“It takes most bands three or four albums to pluck up the sort of courage and experimentalism Cloud Castle Lake's debut EP 'Dandelion' seeps from every pore. One for fans of Atoms For Peace, Max Richter and Wild Beasts, the Dublin trio's first release is a heart-bruising ballet of monochrome guitars and sophisticated electronic fizz that marks Daniel McAuley, Brendan Jenkinson and Rory O'Connor as future trail-blazers.” - NME
“ So yes, it is influenced by Radiohead. But Cloud Castle Lake are the extremely rare case where a band incorporates not just the vocals and the rhythmic vibrancy, but also the pioneering spirit.” – Pitchfork
