Naoise Roo’s ‘Silent Halls’ and New Valley Wolves ‘Shake Your Bones’ can be heard in the season finale of the YA series ‘Louise Lives Large’. The series follows 13-year-old cancer survivor Louise as she teams up with school loner Jess to conquer her 'Live Large List,' embracing every triumph and hiccup along the way. Get ready for a heartwarming journey of resilience, friendship, and the power of being true to yourself.
Winter Aid releases sophomore album 'Pull The Sky Inside'
Winter Aid (aka Shane Culloty) has just released his sophomore album Pull the Sky Inside. The album finds Culloty stretching the extremities as to what is sonically expected from a collection of Winter Aid songs, working with producers Larry Crane (Elliott Smith, The Decemberists) and Chuck Johnson (Daniel Bachman, Claire Rousay) to weave in electronic sonic strands and new percussive elements.
Pull The Sky Inside captures that sense of displacement: feeling a bit unmoored and out of place, but constantly trying to explore new scenery. It's a record with one foot in Culloty’s homeland back in Ireland, while very much a reflection of his new surroundings and making sense of everything going on around him.
Shane re-emerged with Winter Aid, but was never really out of mind, with the continued success of his very first single, “The Wisp Sings,” which has garnered well over 300 million streams across all platforms, and 3 billion posts on TikTok.
Winter Aid new single 'Silk' released & album announcement
Shane Culloty, aka Winter Aid, has shared the first single ‘Silk’ from the upcoming album Pull the Sky Inside which we be released May 17th. An accompanying video for ‘Silk’ by Dermot Lynskey was also released.
Discussing “Silk”, Culloty offers, “This song is musically one of the happiest I've ever written, but lyrically it's bitter. It was written in response to the feeling of having made it through 2020 - which is fading in memory now, but was fresh and raw at the time - and having seen the tumult and hope and passion, and brief flames of political optimism give way to a reassertion of the status quo.
Living in the Bay Area it seemed like it was all being invented in front of me, from political rallies in Richmond to canvassing in the Mission, giving way to the summer's marches against police violence and eventually, the election. I didn't set out to write a song about that feeling, but it made its way into the album nonetheless.” You can listen now to ‘Silk’ on all streaming platforms.
Winter Aid releases new EP 'Inner Sunset'
San Francisco-based, Irish songwriter Shane Culloty, aka Winter Aid, returns with his first new record in five years, Inner Sunset EP. The EP follows The Wisp Sings: 10th Anniversary Edition EP/Vinyl which included a re-release of his gorgeous song 'The Wisp Sings', which has, since its initial release, generated over 300 million streams across all platforms.
Inner Sunset is a largely instrumental affair, with the streets, sounds, and scenery of Culloty’s adopted new home inspiring the four tracks, and filtering into the recordings themselves. Two songs, ”Interlude for Shankill” and “Dusk", date back to life back home in Ireland. Throughout the EP’s six laidback tracks, these landscapes dictate the feel of material, providing both a sense of closure and a new beginning. A new Winter Aid album will be released later this year.
Katie Kim, The Shaker Hymn & Diffly featured in the new TV series 'The Gone'
Music from Katie Kim, The Shaker Hymn & Diffly can be heard in the new TV series ‘The Gone’. The series is an Irish/New Zealand production and focuses on an Irish detective who teams up with a Kiwi cop to find an Irish couple who have vanished from a rural New Zealand town. The pair have to contend with a community's growing disquiet that the disappearances may be linked to a series of historical murders. The series has aired on TVNZ and is set to air on RTE.
Autre Monde release new album 'Sensitive Assignments'
Autre Monde have announced the release of their second album, Sensitive Assignments. The album will be available on 12” vinyl and online through the usual outlets from 15th September and to accompany the album release, they will play a number of dates across Ireland in September and October. You can grab a copy of the album on bandcamp here
M Stevens and the Ghasts release latest single 'In the Garden'
‘In The Garden’ is the second single from the forthcoming album ‘Birds’ by M Stevens & The Ghasts. M Stevens & The Ghasts are an indie-folk from Dublin and led by songwriter Mike Stevens. Stevens has previously worked with a string of Irish alt folk & indie pop bands like Settler, Groom, Lie Ins and Skelocrats and was also co-founder of celebrated indie collective Popical Island. The Ghasts are Mark Jordan (Seabeasts, Si Schroeder, Large Mound, Spook of the 13th Lock, The Run Ons), Hugh McCabe (Large Mound, Spook of the 13th Lock, Desert Aces), Ciaran Canavan (Land Lovers) and Donagh O'Brien (A Ritual Sea, Sweet Jane). ‘Birds’ will be released on November 17th.
Music from New Valley Wolves, Aoife Underwater, James Darkin & Autre Monde featured in 'Professionals'
The action series Professionals, starring Brendan Fraser and Tom Welling had its US premiere on the CW network. The series which follows billionaire Peter Swann (Fraser) and experienced professional Vincent Corbo (Welling) includes music from New Valley Wolves, Aoife Underwater, Milky Teeth, Ódú, James Darkin and Autre Monde.