"In the end, I'm left disappointed more than anything." - MacDara on Limerick's We Come In Pieces second album, Night Of The Living.
"It bears no airs, nor even graces, and this is what saves it from mundanity." - Dara Higgins on Best Coast's The Only Place.
"...like a love song sung by two lovers savouring the delicious regret of a recently embarked upon murder spree across the dusty highways of three states." - Dara Higgins on Hidden Highways' self titled debut EP.
"...now that their lives no longer depend on the band, they can afford to take more risks with their music" - Macdara gets a taste for Pelican from their new EP Ataraxia/Taraxis.
"All along, it’s punctuated by the thunderous blows of Lomabaro’s drumming, using a stripped down, 4 piece kit. It’s barely able to contain his energy, or the extra couple of arms he appears to be sporting." - Dara Higgins on Philm's Harmonic.
"In terms of pure talent, Illosophical is as good a line-up of rappers as has ever appeared on an Irish record." - Dave Donnelly checks out Costello's debut LP Illosophical.
"Hang on, what was that? Thirteen tracks in 11 minutes?" - MacDara somehow finds the time to review Only Fumes & Corpses' Selfish Act I.
"In vocalist Hanna Tuulikk they have a voice that puts them somewhat apart. It’s an odd, high pitched enigma, early Kate Bush, maybe a slightly be-heliumed Beth Gibbons." - Dara Higgins on Two Wings' debut LP Love's Spring.
"We need to undo the untold damage of the nineties, and it’s anoraks and lad rock, standing still, spitting out infantile rhymes and stealing only the obvious riffs from the obvious bands, and get back to posturing" - Dara Higgins on Kantor Tzar Collectif's Absent EP.
"...variations on a theme showing the endless depth of shadows and all the scattered beauty a glimmer of light can illuminate." - Ian Maleney on Katie Kim's Cover & Flood.