The Underground of Happiness

Another fantastic racket from Cork Psych’s leading lights, produced by Elastic Sleep's Chris Somers and released on Cork-based Art For Blind . It starts out with a distorted minor key riff that threatens lift-off with a side order of scraped atonal guitar shards. It’s thrilling, although for me the next section is even more enduring – clean, propulsive guitar chords and a brilliantly wobbly drone made up of synth and bass. It suggests the autobahn’s white lines disappearing in the rear mirror. It suggests the digging down of the song’s lyrics. It would suggest a trancelike meditation if it wasn’t so itchy and confrontational. It’s tremendous fucking stuff.

The centrepiece of this week's show was a segment of the interview with Liam Singer . We also had two tracks from his wonderful album Arc Iris (review on the blog here and full interview audio to follow soon). I saw Cat Dowling play last weekend, she was superb, and her new single 'Somebody else' is just out. Plus another strong Irish female release in the shape of the fourth album from Ann Scott . Cool new music from Connan Mockasin , bit of a Prince feeling off that; new album this month from Dublin's Crayonsmith ; some great kraut-surf vibes from La Femme ; Cork's Elastic Sleep play the HWCH13 Festival in Dublin this week (so does Cat Dowling actually); The Unusual History of Ether , keeping a place for jazz in pop music, like that a lot. And another Hidden Shoal gem, the new single from (The) Caseworker . More as always on these pages. Oct 1 2013 show w/ Ann Scott, Elastic Sleep, Connan Mockasin, Liam Singer Interview,Crayonsmith++ by The...