This week Charlene Hegarty joined Rigsy and Stuart to share new music including:
– Red
Charlene: “More Than Conquerors have called it a day but with that track they’ve kind of gone out in the best style…There’s one last chance to kind of catch them live on 2nd October – they’re doing like a send off show in the Mandela Show…You’ve got like four really talented musicians in that band – so I can imagine what’s next to come will be really exciting.”
- Things We Have In Common
Charlene: “Daniel Anderson – he is a musician based in Dublin. He’s got an album coming out called ‘Patterns’ – it’s released on 18th September…it’s just an amazing project…sounding instantly classic.”
Stuart: “He was in an incredible band…The Rags…Absolute intensity when he was on stage and it’s great to hear that he’s still engaged with things ‘cause he’s so so talented.”
– Some Girls
Stuart: “Well the guy in the centre of this is called Brian Bell…He put together this short story called ‘The Unsung Classic’ which is about a band from Belfast obsessed with the 60s, that moves to Brighton…Then he kind of created an album or a soundtrack from a band that didn’t really exist and it has kind of gathered momentum really. He’s been working with a guy called Gordon Grahame...So they’ve done everything the wrong way round…It’s kind of very postmodern but it’s great.”
- Tethered Bones
Charlene: “What an exceptional sound, an exceptional artist…It’s got a beautiful brooding atmospheric electronic sound - the person responsible for that is a guy called Eoin French and he is a Cork native…one of the many great bands playing Hard Working Class Heroes this year.”
- Come Back To Mine
Charlene: “It’s taken from the band’s debut EP ‘Argento Nights’ – I was really intrigued by the whole EP…It kind of like glides between really dark brooding experimental moments… like Chelsea Wolfe and then into more repetitive drumming rhythms, on that track especially with a really simplified layered vocal. It sounds a little bit like Kraftwerk and while it kind of exists between both it doesn’t sound exactly like either, so it’s brilliant.”
– Disproved That
Rigsy: “From Belfast and has an album out this year called ‘Ambivalence’…well thought out, yet no less gnarly Hip Hop…props to Dan Magill, rapping about singing in his own kind of mother tongue and feeling no shame for doing so.”
- Blue Sky
Charlene: “What a great track…I think all the elements combine on this track really well. You’ve got a two piece from Dublin who are really comfortable with a really summer friendly bright and breezy sound.”