This album is another beautiful gift from the ever evolving relationship between traditional Irish and American music. The title says it all: traditional Irish music lovingly performed on pedal steel guitar. Sometimes ambient, sometimes engaging, there are moments of just pedal steel and passages with a […]
This is an album of timeless traditional folk music interpreted at the highest level and with the utmost respect. Any fan of experimental music, slowcore, folk traditions (Irish or otherwise) or angular guitar music ala Branca, Quine etc will enjoy this immensely. I was in love […]
Absolutely stunning work here from Ian Lynch, founding member of Irish experimental folk group Lankum. Inspired by various abandoned and “rediscovered” spaces throughout Dublin, these tracks are somber and occasionally harrowing, but for the patient listener, they resolve into utterly transcendent beauty, uplifting the soul and […]
This is an intricate and uplifting album of psych pop that sparkles and bubbles with electroacoustic detail- laid out on top of stellar songwriting. It’s the UK groups first record since 2016 and their fifth for the inimitable Drag City Records, so there’s the first good […]