God is an Astronaut’s seventh full-length album, Origins, is their first as a five-piece and cements their place as one of the world’s most intense, musically and visually-inventive post rock bands. Renowned for their searing live shows in which the music is married with provocative projected imagery, GIAA consider each of their albums to be a sonic ‘photograph or snapshot of who we are in that moment of time’ and Origins is perhaps their most saturated, striking snapshot to date.
Comprising a dozen tracks, Origins fluctuates from controlled ferment (‘Calistoga’) to plaintive, piano-led reverie (‘Autumn Song’) to rhapsodic, unapologetically melodic fever (‘Signal Rays’) while never losing its focus. A wide spectrum of emotions are conjured over the course of the album and, while half of the tracks feature vocals, the voices have been laden with resonant swathes of effects so as to retain a similar ambiguity to the instrumentals. It is this ambiguity that lends Origins its power. The song titles are evocative but never prescriptive: for instance, a southern Californian town is suggested in ‘Calistoga’ while the effect-fogged lyrics speak of finding light in a seemingly hopeless situation. Perseverance in times of emotional hardship appears to be the overriding theme of Origins, though it has always been the juxtaposition of seemingly disparate sounds, words and visuals that afford GIAA their singularity. The listener’s interpretation of the music is as valid as the emotions that inspired the band to make it.

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My Favourite Faded Fantasy is Damien Rice’s first collection of material in eight years and was produced by Rick Rubin and Rice himself . It is a selection of songs, which Rice says are “sung straight into the metaphorical mirror.” Intimate, frank and revitalized by making music again, My Favourite Faded Fantasy is a record that accepts one’s faults but also begins, perhaps, to appreciate one’s ability to grow up. The recording process began in Los Angeles and finished up with a cast of friends and local musicians against the stunning backdrop of Reykjavik, Iceland.
Bonus Track “Camarillas” is exclusive to fans who purchase the My Favourite Faded Fantasy wooden box CD

戴米恩・莱斯（英语：Damien Rice，1973年12月7日－）， 爱尔兰创作歌手、音乐家，擅长演奏吉他、大提琴、小提琴、钢琴、鼓等乐器。以《O》 和《9》两张专辑闻名。

1983年出生，来自爱尔兰的民谣歌手和歌曲作家。他的首张专辑Early in the Morning于2012年二月发行，他在爱尔兰一个海边的房子度过了一段隐居的生活，并写下了这张专辑的歌曲。

Slow Skies took form after singer/songwriter Karen Sheridan and music producer Conal Herron met one another while studying music in London and started working together shortly before returning home to Ireland to write their first EP ‘Silhouettes’. A couple of EPs later, and having played lots of gigs supporting the likes of James Vincent McMorrow and Cat Power, we’ve arrived at the band’s latest edition to the Irish music scene, ‘Keepsake’.

Darling Arithmetic is the third album from Villagers, released on 13th April 2015. The follow-up to Conor O’Brien’s debut, Becoming a Jackal, and its successor, Awayland - both hugely acclaimed and Mercury-nominated - is a breathtakingly beautiful, intimate album entirely about love and relationships.
Darling Arithmetic was written, recorded, produced and mixed by O’Brien at home - the loft of a converted farmhouse that he shares in the coastal town of Malahide to the north of Dublin - revealing a single-minded artist at the peak of his already considerable songwriting powers. It encompasses the various shades of feeling – desire, obsession, lust, loneliness and confusion, and deeper into philosophical and existential territory, across a cast of lovers, friends, family and even strangers. Backing up his supple and emoting vocal and guitar is the subtlest palate of instrumentation – piano, Mellotron (which accounts for the album’s occasional horn and cello tones) and brushes. O’Brien plays every instrument on these exquisite, melodic songs in a sparse, spacious, acoustic-leaning fashion.

Following the critical acclaim for their internet-only EP, "Warmed Up", Saso release their debut album, Big Group Hug, through Melted Snow on 22nd October, 2001.

"Outstanding, like listening to Radiohead's next album" Sunday Times, Record of the Week 3/3

The ten tracks on this album elaborate on the sound of the EP and express a slightly darker mood through ambient sonics and a sense of timelessness. This is lit by fragile, emotional vocals and delicate instrumentals, which gently bring into focus an overall theme and atmosphere.

"This is a jump into the sublime" Q Magazine 4/5

Saso's sparse live instrumentation and production techniques are enhanced by Melted Snow's intuitive, collaborative approach with visual artists through sleeve artwork, video, graphics, photography and website.

"It is a pleasure to hear things like this, luxuriant and divine." The Fly Magazine 4/5

The album's soft tones, single piano strikes and shimmering electronics offer a lo-fi, slow-motion perspective on fast-forward culture. Partly inspired by Talk Talk's later work, Saso have created one of the most beautiful albums of 2001.

Exclusive Japanese soundtrack release to the Japanese film, 'Calmi Cuori Appassionati'. Includes 14 tracks (all previously released on her past albums). Tracks, 'Wild Child', 'Caribbean Blue', 'Book Of Days', 'After Ventus', 'Watermark', 'Orinico Flow', 'The Celts', 'Once You Had Gold' (Previously only available on the Japanese version of her 'Memory Of Trees' album), 'Triad- St Patrick', 'Anywhere Is', 'Fairytale', 'Evening Falls', 'Song Of The Sandman (Lullaby) & 'The Promise'. Limited slipcase packaging. 2001.

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Irish singer-songwriter Lisa Hannigan's highly anticipated new album, At Swim, will be released August 19 via ATO Records. The release follows her second full-length album, Passenger, which NPR Music praised as 'lush and beautiful,' while Rolling Stone furthered, 'Her voice is light and agile, her phrasing like exquisite plumage, and her folksy songs move with deceptive power, sailing on guitars, strings and Irish drama.' At Swim was recorded in New York with producer Aaron Dessner (The National).

‘For Every Silence’ The debut LP by Ryan Vail – Released 25th March via PledgeMusic, 1st April General Release in stores.
Ryan Vail is a musician and composer with vision. The Derry-born artist draws his inspiration from the worlds of electronic and modern classical music, bringing them together with unique instrumentation and an emphasis on the immediacy of live performance above all.
So far he has released three EPs on Belfast label Champion Sound and a collaborative album with singer-songwriter Ciaran Lavery – 'Sea Legs' was released on Quiet Arch and nominated for the 2015 Northern Ireland Music Prize alongside eventual winner SOAK, Duke Special and Tim Wheeler of Ash.
In 2014 he composed the soundtrack for a full-length BBC2 documentary entitled The Longest Night', part of the BBC's True North series. The following year, he composed a solo piano piece for World Piano Day, which was chosen for composer Nils Frahm’s Piano Day playlist on Soundcloud.
Ryan has had radio play or performed live sessions with Zane Lowe, Annie Mac, Tom Ravenscroft, Tom Robinson, Phil Taggart and Other Voices, and he has performed alongside many international live acts, including Nils Frahm, Jamie xx, Jon Hopkins, Tycho, Todd Terje, Luke Vibert and Orbital.
Now he's ready to release his debut solo album – and it's 89 years in the making. It's the story of a piano that was made in England in 1927, shipped to Derry in Northern Ireland, cherished by Ryan's wife's family and restored for use on a stunning debut album, where the warm, well-loved character of the instrument takes centre stage.