A monthly chart to cover the often-overlooked albums that make up my listening habits. These are the 20 albums this month that got the most plays, the most interest and the albums that were my favourites throughout August. I’ve included EPs too.
Album name links to previous blog post where relevant. Full album list with links below.
Official video for what will be known as one of the songs of the year.
To get you in the mood for Friday’s kickoff of Electric Picnic (stage times here) or to play in your car on the way down there, here’s a 24-track mixtape of Electric Picnic artists featuring tracks, remixes and edits from LCD Soundystem, Robyn, Freelance Whales, Caribou, The Horrors, Crystal Fighters, Omar Souleyman, Fever Ray, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Foals, Joker and more. Stream it in the Soundcloud player or download it zipped in the more for a limited time only.
Full music lineup (including Body and Soul stages) are below. Get excited! Full times plus a printable link below.
Another awesome Alex Metric remix for Dave Sitek’s Maximum Balloon project.
Maximum Balloon – Groove Me feat. Theophilus London (Alex Metric Remix)
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Young hopeful, don’t let your mind get twisted in the burn / Remember, it’s easier to explore than return.
Sacred Animals is a solo project from a Wexford-born man who would prefer to remain anonymous for now but for his first name – Darragh (some of you will recognise him but keep it to yourselves). His debut release is the lush four-track EP Welcome Home and serves as a perfect introduction to his fanciful and feral, wild like nature ballads. The music recalls the likes of Radiohead, Bon Iver and Guillemots without every really sounding too much like any of these artists.
Sacred Animals will reveal himself in live performance at Electric Picnic on Saturday at 5.30pm on The Slow Stage at Global Green.
Sacred Animals – Chosen Seed
Sacred Animals – Wired, Islands (GhostWaves Remix)
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A list of personally recommended events taking place over the next seven days in Dublin. All times are 7.30pm/8pm unless stated. Feel free to leave your picks in the comments.
Top 3 gigs this week:
I knew this was coming.. but.. it’s still weird. Die Antwoord jumped on-stage with Aphex Twin at the London Electronic Festival over the weekend.
Myles O’ Reilly is the finest music documentarian Ireland has right now. Here, over the course of ten minutes, he takes us into a warm and fuzzy night at Space54 (which closed down over the weekend) as Donal Dineen and friends play the venue.
In order of appearance: Hulk and Adrian Crowley, Lisa O’ Neill, Donal Dineen DJing (the Deadboy Foals remix) and Niwel Tsumbu. I love the shot drawing you into the venue at just after 7 minutes. This is a beautiful video. I wasn’t there that night but I feel like I was now.
Richie Egan has been posting new demos on his Soundcloud for a while now but today he went ahead and put up all three of his albums for stream. After the jump, you can listen to 2008′s Choice Prize-winning Ritual, 2004′s The Monkeys In The Zoo Have More Fun Than Me and listen or download 2003′s Cosmosphere album. You’ll can also listen to all three via japemusic.com.
