The Underground of Happiness

more storming tunes in this early summer avalanche stick it to the man x Playlist 1. Sally Anne Morgan – I saw a heron (Thrill Jockey) 2. Andrew Pekler – Cumbia para los grillos (Faitiche) 3. Bella Wakame – Manga bois (Umor-Rex) 4. HAAi feat. KAM-BU – Shapeshift (Mute) ( playing Primavera Sound, Porto, June 15 ) 5. Stereolab – Meoldie is a wound (Warp Records) ( playing Paradiso, Amsterdam, May 31 ) 6. Astral Bakers – Dog in a manger (Sage Music) 7. Classic Trucks – Oil (Breakfast Records) 8. Guerilla Toss – Psychosis is just a number (Sub Pop) 9. Cory Hanson – Bird on a swing (Drag City) 10. Robert Forster – All of the time (Tapete) ( playing National Concert Hall, Dublin, Oct 15 ) 11. TAMIW feat. Soaota – We are not friends (Niwer Records) 12. Surprise Chef – Consulate case (Big Crown Records) 13. Death & Vanilla – Nightmares (Fire Records) 14. Jamie Lidell – The center (Todo) 15. Elaine Howley – Hold me in a new way (Modern Love) ( playing Sounds fro...

enjoy the (pink) silence x Playlist 1. Keeley Forsyth & Matthew Bourne – Talk to me (Fat Cat Records) 2. North Sea Radio Orchestra – All Alice like (Believer’s Roast) 3. Deradoorian – Set me free (Fire Records) 4. Le Volume Courbe – Two-love (Duophonic Super 45s) 5. Robin Kester – Happy sad (It’s a party) (Memphis Industries) 6. Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek – Cool hand (Big Crown Records) 7. Echolalia – Little bird (Full Time Hobby) 8. Cormac O Caoimh – You help (bandcamp) (playing Coughlans, Cork, Aug 24) 9. Eera – Forget her (Test Card Recordings) (playing The Lexington, London, Oct 14) 10. Lucy Gooch – Clouds (Fire Records) 11. Lael Neale – Tell me how to be here (Sub Pop) (playing The Hug & Pint, Glasgow, May 31) 12. Louis Philippe & the Night Mail – The road to somewhere (Tapete) 13. Sufjan Stevens – Mystery of love (demo) (Asthmatic Kitty) 14. Richard Hawley – Coles Corner (acoustic) (BMG) 15. Junk Drawer – Nids Niteca (Pizza Pizza Record...

tis the season for ... ...truth enjoy x Playlist 1. Yann Tiersen – Caledonian Canal (Mute) ( playing Barbican, London, Apr 19 ) 2. Conrad Schnitzler - Ballet statique (bureau b) (Krautrock Eruption – An Introduction to German Electronic Music 1970-1980) 3. Simon Fisher Turner and Mike Smalle + Bring Your Own Hammer – Exile (Dimple Discs) 4. Peter Baumann – From a far land (bureau b) 5. Bella Wakame – Shades of Nambei (Umor-Rex) 6. In-Flight Movie – Passenger (bandcamp) 7. Tropical Fuck Storm – Bloodsport (Fire Records) ( playing Manchester Psych Festival, Aug 30 ) 8. Albertine Sarges – Blue lagoon (Moshi Moshi) ( playing Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh, Nov 7 ) 9. Kris Kristoffersen – Me and Bobby McGee + Dialogue (Fire Records) (from the OST of the film The Last Movie ) 10. I Dreamed I Dream – Fags (bandcamp) ( playing Bello Bar, Dublin, May 3, w Echo Northstar & Jean Pack ) 11. Quinie – Macaphee turn the cattle (Upset The Rhythm) ( playing Mono, Glasgow, May ...

a spring for your step enjoy x Playlist 1. Robert Forster – Strawberries (Tapete Records) ( playing National Concert Hall, Dublin, Oct 15 ) 2. Louis Philippe & The Night Mail – Pictures of Anna (Tapete Records) 3. The Saxophones – Burning with desire (Full Time Hobby) 4. Cormac O Caoimh – The little things (bandcamp) ( playing Coughlans, Cork, Aug 24 ) 5. Lael Neale – Tell me how to be here (Sub Pop Records) ( playing The Workman’s Cellar, May 10 ) 6. Preen – I know (Small Matter Records) ( playing Jacaranda Basement, Liverpool, May 5 ) 7. Tropical Fuck Storm – Goon show (Fire Records) ( playing Manchester Psych Festival, Aug 30 ) 8. The Fun Years – Auto show day of the dead (Keplar) 9. Saeko Killy – Next time (bureau b) 10. HAAi – Can’t stand to lose (Mute) ( playing Primavera Sound, Ports, June 15 ) 11. Oh No Noh – Dog years (Teleskop) ( playing Madame Claude, Berlin, Apr 11 ) 12. The Burning Hell – Luna FM (BB*Island) ( playing De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterda...

new music for your january enjoy x Playlist 1. Ex-Void – Down the drain (Tapete Records) 2. Saeko Killy – Dream in dream (bureau b) 3. Clever Bunny – Rolling in the hay (Slowfoot Records) 4. youbet – Deny (Hardly Art Records) 5. SPINNEN – Geister (Alien Transistor) 6. Chalk – Afraid (Nice Swan) ( playing Ulster Sports, Belfast, Apr 10 ) 7. Propaganda – World out of joint (bureau b) 8. Tarwater – Spirit of flux (Morr Music) 9. Adrian Crowley – Brother was a runaway (Valley of Eyes Records) 10. Albertine Sarges – Girl missing (Moshi Moshi) 11. The Burning Hell – Bottle of Chianti, cheese and charcuterie board (BB*Island) 12. Cloth – Polaroid (Rock Action) 13. Deradoorian – Digital gravestone (Fire Records) 14. Echolalia – Blood moon (Full Time Hobby) 15. Elephant – 20k (Excelsior Recordings) 16. Hiro Ama – Everything is going to make sense in the end (Daniel Brandt Remix) (PRAH Recordings) 17. House of All – The good Englishman (Tiny Global Recordings) ( pl...

so the final round up for 2024... ...there's a couple of smouldering soul tracks, marie klock twice, some knockout appalachian folk tunes, a low cover with trumpet, a drop dead choir in stasis, some of the soundtrack from one of the best films of the year... ...and a bit of chappell enjoy, my friends x Playlist 1. Marie Klock – Se goinfrer de rage (Pingipung) 2. Thee Heart Tones – Forever and ever (Big Crown Records) 3. Lake of Puppies – Si c’est fidelité (Wamho Records) 4. Supersempfft – Roboterwerke (bureau b) 5. Graham Reynolds – Mountain Part 1 (Fire Records) 6. Dave Guy – Diamond encore (Big Crown Records) 7. Magic Tuber Stringband – A dance on a Saturday night (Thrill Jockey) 8. Elephant – For a friend (Excelsior Recordings) 9. Cormac O Caoimh – My harbour (bandcamp) 10. Jeremy Warmsley – Dancing on the moon (bandcamp) 11. Anadol & Marie Klock – Sonate au jambon (Pingipung) 12. Brainstory – Hanging on (Big Crown Records) 13. Stuart Moxham ...

visiting tokyo, cork, boston, melbourne, berlin, london, sunderland, rotterdam, belfast and dublin enjoy x Playlist 1. Bananagun – Free energy (Full Time Hobby) 2. Chalk – Tell me (Nice Swan) 3. Sprints – Up and comer (City Slang) 4. Rats on Rafts – Japanese medicine (Fire Records) 5. Memorials – Acceptable experience (Fire Records) 6. Silverbacks – Selling shovels (bandcamp) 7. The Last Sound – Sting Possible Combinations (Cruel Nature Records) 8. Albertine Sarges – Stand near your fire (Moshi Moshi) 9. Marcel Wave – Something looming (Upset The Rhythm) 10. Field Music – The waitress of St Louis (Memphis Industries) 11. The Silver Abduction – Remember my heart (Lightwell Recordings) 12. Katrina Ford – Dundalk dungeon (Violin Films) 13. Oslo Twins – Sally (Half Normal Records) 14. Hilary Bow – Fall fall (bandcamp) 15. Kugelschreiber – (me x u) ≠ (u x me) (Wamho Records) 16. muckno – manboy (bandcamp) 17. Throwing Muses – Drigstore drastic (Fire Records) ...

tripping through sheffield, surabaya, los angeles, navan, fermanagh, helsinki, cork, copenhagen & montreal in this batch enjoy x Playlist 1. Minwhi Lee – Mirror therapy for phantom pain (Alien Transistor) 2. Ella Raphael – Tangled love (Fire Records) 3. Yosa Peit – Shelly (Fire Records) 4. Naima Bock – Takes one (Sub Pop Records/Memorials of Distinction) 5. Bobby Oroza – Goddess (Big Crown Records) 6. David Murphy – An Draigheann (Rollercoaster Records) 7. Hiro Ama feat. Keeley Forsyth – Billowing (PRAH Recordings) 8. Golden Bug feat. The Liminanas & Vega Voga – Hi No Tori (La Belle) 9. Jessica Pratt – Life is (City Slang) 10. Matthew Bourne – The mirror and its fragments (The Leaf Label) 11. Róis – Caoine (bandcamp) 12. William D Drake – The flickering shade (Zebedog Records) 13. Myriam Gendron – Long way home (Thrill Jockey & Feeding Tube) 14. Oisin Leech – Colour of the rain (Outside Music/Tremone Records) 15. Mary Lattimore & Walt McClem...

a first look back at the year in music x Playlist 1. Echolalia – Odd energy (bandcamp) 2. Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek – Cool hand (Big Crown Records) 3. Homer feat. girl named GOLDEN – Wishing well (Big Crown Records) 4. Organi – Babylonia (Alien Transistor) 5. Tarwater – USA (Morr Music) 6. The Attendant – eden rock (faux lux) 7. Trust Fund – Leaving the party early (Tapete Records) 8. claire rousay – head (Thrill Jockey) 9. Daisy Rickman – Signpost to the stars (bandcamp) 10. Ariel Sharratt & Mathias Kom – Never work (BB*Island) 11. John Hynes – In over my head (bandcamp) 12. Aislinn Logan – Stolen days (self release) 13. Camille Baziadoly – Skin on fire (bandcamp) 14. Amy Rigby – Bricks (Tapete Records) 15. Penny Arcade – Jona (Tapete Records) 16. The Gentle Spring – Sugartown (Skep Wax) 17. SUN – Missing (Alien Transistor) 18. Pupkulies & Rebecca + Tibau Tavares – Nha badjam (Normoton) 19. Will Gregory Moog Ensemble – Young Archimedes (Mut...