Category: Music
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What’s That Sound?: PX Music, Cultural Cringe and the Redemption of Irish Hip-Hop
Join me as I chart the growth and development of Irish hip-hop over the past half a decade, and look towards the scene’s future.
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6 Great Albums From The First 6 Months Of The Year That You Might Have Missed
It’s fair to say that the first six months of this new decade have been…stressful. But as the world came to a standstill, and then burst into life in a series of uprisings against racism and police brutality, the flow of amazing new music never dried up, with artists such as Perfume Genius, Yves Tumor…
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Album Review: Nicolas Jaar – Cenizas
“The music comes from a desire to feel everything”. So begins a short blog written by Nicolas Jaar, posted on his personal website the day before the release of his latest LP, Cenizas. The record is a complete triumph, an astounding exploration in mindful sonic design through vivid individual and collective emotions. In order to…
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Album Review: Kojaque – Deli Daydreams
Dublin rapper and artist Kevin Smith a.k.a. Kojaque has returned with his new project DELI DAYDREAMS on Soft Boy Records, further cementing his place in the upper echelons of Irish hip-hop. Following on from 2016’s impressive mixtape Sunday Roast and last year’s standalone single ‘WiFicode’, DELI DAYDREAMS is a slick, confident affair that touches on a range…