“I was drawn to the 80s style hook of ‘Fooling Around Again’ which I found reminiscent of Don Henley’s ‘Boys of Summer’. There is a playful, juvenile quality to the imagery and I think this is a reflection of the absurdity of self-sabotage,” We lived in this 70s-styled house for four days and made three videos so it felt like a complete escape from reality for a while. “We wanted to play with colour and setting for aesthetic reasons, and the idea of the fragmented self. ‘Fooling Around Again’ is the third song from the EP, which was co-produced by Ross Fortune (Benny Smiles) whose ’80s-leaning influences can be heard on the song alongside a stated influence of Smashing Pumpkins’ ‘1979’,Ī video by Chromatic’s Ror Conaty, rounds off a trilogy of videos, all filmed in a 1970s-style architect-designed house in Wexford. Gavin MacDermott aka Dashoda released his latest EP Never Enough this week, featuring the previously-featured earworm ‘Looking For You’ and the great collaboration with ackie Beverly in ‘Sultan’ We retreat to our dreamy safe place on the outro as your soul drifts away into the evermore of infinity!’ It was fun for us to have a riff based song leading to a euphoric chorus. We had the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s song ‘Maps’ in our minds as we were recording, especially for Matt’s drum part. We wanted to start the 2nd half of the record with a bang but also have a sense of continuity with some of the sounds introduced in the first half. Necessary and welcome but difficult and strained. “We were trying to capture that weird feeling you can get from trying to connect online with family. “The track is about the end of the world and “that weird space where you contemplate the end of being and what matters.” The band say ‘Reckoning’ was sonically inspired by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ song ‘Maps’: It’s from a forthcoming album Speaking From Other Rooms out April 21st on Greenbay Records / Backseat. I felt no pressure regarding my output and just wanted to start getting lost in that creative state again.”įresh from last month’s feature in this column, Perlee, Meath/Berlin duoSaramai Leech and Cormac O’Keeffe have released a big sounding shoegaze indie song in the form of ‘Reckoning’, a song giving me Beach House feels. But when I picked it back up again, it was purely because I enjoyed doing so. When the music sector grinded to a halt in 2021, it was difficult for me. It began to feel soulless and it was a game I didn’t like playing. I became lost in a world where the metric of a song’s worth is quantified by likes and streams. When I began releasing music, that started to change. I enjoyed getting lost in that creative state and I never really questioned how the songs might be received by a wider audience. When I began making music, it was because I loved the process. “I became quite disillusioned with music over the last couple of years. I’m loving ‘i think i’m scum’, Marcus Haugh’s return which has a gentle soulful brittleness to it, recorded with some extra production from David Curley at The Clinic Studios. The uncertainty of the big Pause lead to Marcus feeling dejected about musicmaking, but a chancer encounter with Richie Egan aka Jape in a pub lead to a Egan adding some synths to his music, helping to reignite the passion for creating Dublin singer-songwriter YourCuzMarcus debuted as Marcus with ‘Obey’, an idiosyncratic love song in 2020, and released a debut EP since then.
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