YOUR WEEKLY MUSIC FIX October 18, 2019

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fter unleashing their rawness of guitar music and debut LP Loaded Gun festival-ready choruses to the to rave press acclaim, top of the tree and come armed nAational radio airplay and with the looks, charm and ear Spotify playlist support in the for a hook to do it. Rock media summer, Liverpool rockers have been quick to spot their HAIL THE GHOST return with Little Triggers are back the huge potential, with Classic their new single, 'SWEET album's fourth single I'm Rock Magazine featuring them SAMURAI', which is taken Alright. The two-minute blast as both a coveted High Hopes from their forthcoming album, of frenetic punk n' roll delivers new band and awarding them 'ARRHYTHMIA' (OUT 6th their signature energy and two Tracks Of The Week and December 2019). This is the raucous vocals alongside 60's- Planet Rock, Total Rock and band's first release since their inspired melodies and metallic BBC Introducing Radio critically acclaimed debut riffs, and is on streaming spinning their singles this year. album, 'FORSAKEN' (2015). platforms now. The supercharged So Fine HAIL THE GHOST are a "I wrote I'm Alright to put rocketed to thousands of three-piece art rock band from two fingers up to all the things Spotify streams with prominent Ireland, fronted by Actor, that go wrong in your life," placements on their All New Kieran O'Reilly (VIKINGS, explains livewire Little Triggers Rock and Rock The World Love/Hate), Eamonn Young frontman Tom Hamilton. "You official playlists. (Guitars) & Ian Corr get to Friday night and just With an Iggy Pop support (Piano/Keys). blow away the bad stuff by slot last year and a run of They have been compared to going out and enjoying festival-slaying performances bands such as: Echo & The yourself. It's an anthem to this summer, as well as a Bunnymen, Nick Cave & The survival in the modern world." growing fanbase from tours of Bad Seeds and Interpol. Like all the best rock n' roll the UK, France and China, the The band will headline gangs, Little Triggers have a rock n' roll flame is burning Whelan’s on January 31, 2020 shared vision of restoring the brightly with Little Triggers. Doors: 8pm - Tickets: 15 euro.

03 Wasps vs Humans set to release 'Ugly America'

ollowing the publications guitars just one man and his the BBC's John Peel show at the of two novels, including the drum kit and guest bodhrán time, WvHs has always rFecent release of 'Evel America', player Linda Plover with beats maintained a presence in some Punk poet, Wasps vs Humans that build into an explosion of form within the music scene. (WvH) releases his brand new chaos. DIY in the true sense, As a live act, WVH has single, 'Ugly America' on 'Ugly America' is a sonic punch gigged across Ireland, linking October 31. in the face with a vocal that up with the likes of Jinx Lennon Known for his commentary spits out intent and no apology. and Irish Dundalk rappers based style, it comes to no Having supported The Fall in TPM. Over the years, as well as surprise WvH's response to the one of their last gigs in Ireland, The Fall, guest spots have current political and social WvHs pays homage to Mark E. included John Cooper Clarke, landscape is reflected in this Smith with his 'B side' cover of Christy Moore, Scroobius Pip track. With references to global The Fall's track, 'Rowche and Whipping Boy. warming, joke presidents, Rumble'. In-keeping with the WVH continues to push celebrities, capital punishment original band's energy, WvH himself in new directions, from and 'gun control', 'Ugly delivers his own version; a novelist, musician, poet, actor. America' is an immediate audio stripped back raw and raucous He returns to form with his first assault with its punk style vocal drum and vocal piece which sits musical release in over a rant and layered rhythmic perfectly with it's A'side. decade, blatantly pushing backdrop of drums, and As drummer/singer of 80's against the grain, refusing to percussion. experimental band 4,000,000 compromise, going it alone, Performed by the punk poet, Telephones, who enjoyed unafraid and unapologetic. 'Ugly America' features no critical acclaim from the UK 'Ugly America' is released samples, no keyboards or music press and playlisted on digitally on October 31.

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*MUSIC VIDEOS ARE REMOVED FROM OUR CHART SYSTEM ONE MONTH 06 PUREMZINE.COM AFTER RELEASE DATE VIA YOUTUBE* The Late David Turpin Sive returns releases new music with new single ‘Oh video 'Romances' Mother’

Alt-folk artist Sive returns with new single Oh Mother via Veta Records. A personal response to a universal issue, Oh Mother reflects the helplessness and guilt Sive aka Sadhbh O'Sullivan and many others feel in the face of what's happening to the planet. "With , I wanted to give voice to those feelings that so many of us are experiencing," Sadhbh 'Romances' is the title track of Alaska) and Simon Cullen. explains, "but also to use The Late David Turpin's Shot by Gareth Stack, the imagery that invokes some of critically acclaimed new album. video goes behind the scenes of the reasons why this home is Featuring vocals by the photo-shoot for the album worth saving." Nigerian-Irish singer Xona (of artwork, at Kevin Kavanagh The release comes just a XoMo) and French-Irish artist Gallery, Dublin. David week after Sive performed in song is a string-drenched slow- collaborated with fine-art Merrion Square, Dublin as part jam, inspired by the tangled photographer Dorje De Burgh of the Extinction Rebellion plots and high emotions of for the album artwork. The climate change protests. classic soap operas and provocative and haunting Oh Mother encapsulates the melodramas. images can be seen in a special poignant message of the song The song was produced by limited-edition art-book by combining rich, haunting David with contributions from (including a download of the tones with Sadhbh's beguiling Ross Fortune (Benny Smiles), album), available from voice to create a sound that is Stephen Shannon (Mount www.thelatedavidturpin.com. truly otherworldly.

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arlier this year, Irish she confesses the bases on why fucking walls of my house.” singer- Orla she feels the need to sing about Gartland documents an Gartland released her what’s going on, she sings, “I honest account of losing a Ebrand-new four-track woke up to an empty bed / I friend and what led to the loss. extended-play Why Am I Like took a walk to clear my head / During the pre-chorus, she This? I wished you were there confesses that she feels like a She wonderfully crafted a instead / But then I shook it off let down to be a friend before brilliant folk-pop collection of / What the hell did I used to repeating in the continuous tracks, and from this body of do? / I'm even starting to speak chorus, “I know I did it to work, she has now released her like you / And now you're myself.” latest single ‘Did It To Myself’. living in my memory, living in The story continues during The first verse bares all as my mouth / Living in the four the second verse unfolding

08 more of the story. She sings, never even wanted.” latest EP, and with this “Your personality's split in two The track exposes her self- particular track, it’s stunningly / I fell in love with a half of you doubt and anxiety-ridden lyrically-focussed. / And when you told me what feelings that she portrays well Her vocals stand out you went through / I couldn't through her music. It’s perfectly over the atmospheric brush it off (Brush it off, brush inspiring to see someone use vibes and drums as the it off, brush it off, brush it off) / their artistry for good use and production is genre-bending I wonder, what are you doing display personal issues that in compared to her previous now? / Defeats the point of turn will relate to the listener in releases; she pushes the shutting you out / And now my some way, shape or form. boundaries to broaden her part of London feels so haunted The indie-pop artist created musical tastes as she / You gave me a power that I a stunning body of work on her progresses as an artist.

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Dublin four piece alt- rock band Magazines announce debut single

ough is the debut away from his work with Musically "it's definitely a very single from Debbie Harry to complete the poppy song, unlike a lot of our Magazines, the four track in New York, and tunes, but I like that because it piece alt-rock band mastered in New York by Scott goes hand in hand with the from Dublin who cite Wolf Hull (Scott has previously lyrics, which although are TAlice, Smashing Pumpkins, The worked with Bob Dylan and simple enough, do carry a heavy Cure, RHCP, The Sundays and Bruce Springsteen). meaning for me and remind me Vulfpeck amongst their "Tough" is one of the band's of a time where I really wasn't influences. poppier songs, but still it carries that happy." Released on November 1st, a deeper meaning with lead Magazines launch their "Tough"was produced by vocalist, Cath, having written it single with a headline show in Dermot Lambert alongside about a tumultuous relationship Drop Dead Twice in November Howie Beno, who took time she was in at the time. 1st.

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ublin based alt-pop illustrious Electric Picnic. enthralling sophomore single, artist Elkae embarked Having impressed pundits “I Feel”, at the start of the year, on a quest to carve out and public alike with her debut and now she’s back with a aD career for herself in the music single, “Sold”, and sold out The brand new tune entitled industry in the summer of 2018 Sound House in her hometown “Conflictus”. and quickly began for her first headlining gig in Said to round off the story accumulating a loyal army of the latter half of last year, the told by “Sold” and “I Feel”, fans by showcasing her industrious singer/songwriter which Elkae refers to as “the captivatingly soulful material at proceeded to kick 2019 off with first date” and “the high profile events such as the a bang by unveiling her progression”, respectively,

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“Conflictus” is described as gentle first verse. The music final forty seconds of being “the exploration of the and melody grow increasingly fantastically sonorous singing mindset as the relationship energetic and affecting going and wonderfully rousing comes to an end.” into a delightfully expressive instrumentation. The invigorating four minute chorus, after which the torch is The end result is an offering starts with some soft passed to a terrifically spirited electrifying electronic pop yet stirring music which gives second stanza. This is anthem that’s packed with rise to an absorbing beat ahead succeeded by a superbly spectacularly powerful vocals of the hypnotically heartfelt passionate second chorus that and marvellously vitalising harmony of the endearingly prefaces a remarkably riveting music.

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