Office Playlist: Low – Just make it stop
Photo: Simone della Fornace www.flickr.com/softblackstar Great news lately of a return visit for Low to Ireland. In Cork, we still talk fondly of their sell-out gig at Cyprus Avenue last July. Jaysus, it was pretty sweaty that night, but in a good way. *By the way, check back on Simone’s full photoset from that gig...
Office Playlist: TEEN – Better
Holy shit, the day just got a whole lot brighter. Has everyone heard of TEEN? They are four women out of Brooklyn, three sisters and a friend, who make thrilling psych pop with attitude. Their album In limbo came out last autumn on Carpark Records, mixed and produced with the great Sonic Boom. I don’t...
Office Playlist: MÜTT – The Circuitry
There’s 8-bit in the water this week. We were on about Cove yesterday, originally from Tipperary. Today it’s Galway duo MÜTT. Here’s what they sent us. Hi Guys, We are MÜTT, we are a 2 piece electro band from Galway. we just went live yesterday with our video for our single “The Circuitry”. We have...
Office Playlist: Otherkin – Lockjaw
Nice e-mail from Dublin band Otherkin. Which went like this. Hi We Are Noise, We’re Otherkin, an indie rock band from Dublin. We’re a marketing graduate, a designer and two medical students who write songs about De La Soul and depression. Our debut EP, Broken English, is due in April and we’ve just released a...
Office Playlist: Nancy Elizabeth, Melt Yourself Down + April March
Well, it’s either a feast or a famine, eh? Having just posted some office soundtrack, we’re back with more. They’re just too good not to share around, and on this dreary day in Cork they might help you to dream of Manchester, London or Paris. First up is the first new song from Nancy Elizabeth...
Office Playlist: Marika Hackman – Cannibal
There seem to multiple possibilities for women in folk music these days. The godlike genius of Joanna Newsom is well known to all (she’s in a glorious category of one, mind you), but closer to home, across the small water, some interesting new directions have been forged recently. Smoke Fairies have shown some lovely, earthy...
Office Playlist: Ty Segall – Thank God for Sinners (Drag City)
The new single from the frighteningly prolific San Franciscan is ticking some very pleasant boxes lately. A little bit First Psychedelic Wave, a little bit Glam Rock, and a whole lot of Punk attitude, every crashing beat and feedback squall is like a veritable hymn of praise to getting your kicks – and not on...
Office Playlist – Jan 2012
Kieran suggests some drifting electronica and a couple of “lost” treasures to help with those January blues… Sullen Tone – Sullen Tone Electronic Explorations Mix (SoundCloud 2012) Sullen Tone is a Record Label founded by London-based electronic duo Old Apparatus. Reposted by Paper Dollhouse – This beautiful organic-electronic mix comes from late 2012, and feels...
Office Playlist: Girls Names – Pittura Infamante
Belfast’s Girls Names just premiered the lead track from their upcoming second album The New Life. ‘Pittura Infamante’ is a subtle, nifty thing, driven by a big circling bassline. It goes along in solid New Wave fashion until the organ break, a beautiful wild mercury interlude that would put you in mind of Postcard-era Go-Betweens....
Office Playlist: Lord Huron – Time to run
So, how’s everyone? (Or “How’re the boiiiiiys?”, seeing as the year just gone was truly the year of Sminky.) Found a new use for that turkey baster yet? Some eye-popping possibilities if you google that shit… You know the way this time of year every media outlet seems to be obsessed with THE sound of...
Office Playlist: Melody’s Echo Chamber – I follow you
If you’re diggin the new Tame Impala album, then here’s something else you might want to check out. Melody Prochet is a Frenchwoman with a slightly shadowy past (she’s just not saying much about it, basically). And although her chosen moniker brings to mind something Joe Meek might have cooked up in his widest dreams,...
Office Playlist – Barrytron
Eva Cassidy – Autumn Leaves I first heard Eva Cassidy on (best TV show ever) TOPT2 in 2001 after she had exploded onto the UK airwaves thanks to one Terry Wogan, who had “spun” a “number” of hers on his show to a rapturous response. An American singer/songwriter with a jazzy vocal and a subtley...
