Eoin Murray
@eoin-murray.bsky.social
Anois, Os Ard: Irish music newsletter — anoisosard.substack.com
Digital editor — @djmag.com
Anything For Now
Digital editor — @djmag.com
Anything For Now
Had forgotten what it was like to wake up to good news. Feel like I’ve had a pill
November 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Had forgotten what it was like to wake up to good news. Feel like I’ve had a pill
September 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I’ll be on NTS channel 2 on Wednesday (24th Sept) at 10 AM with a mix for its Roots series.
An hour-long journey into Ireland’s experimental undergrowth. Subterranean sean-nós, ambient trad excursions, dream pop, and more, all anchored on ideas of landscape and lore
Would love it if you tuned in
An hour-long journey into Ireland’s experimental undergrowth. Subterranean sean-nós, ambient trad excursions, dream pop, and more, all anchored on ideas of landscape and lore
Would love it if you tuned in
September 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I’ll be on NTS channel 2 on Wednesday (24th Sept) at 10 AM with a mix for its Roots series.
An hour-long journey into Ireland’s experimental undergrowth. Subterranean sean-nós, ambient trad excursions, dream pop, and more, all anchored on ideas of landscape and lore
Would love it if you tuned in
An hour-long journey into Ireland’s experimental undergrowth. Subterranean sean-nós, ambient trad excursions, dream pop, and more, all anchored on ideas of landscape and lore
Would love it if you tuned in
Summer's Anois, Os Ard New Irish Music reviews round-up is here!
Indie-psych, sound collages, operatic drones, slacker trad, 18 covers of ‘Louie Louie’, two references to the state of Indiana, and a whole lot more.
anoisosard.substack.com/p/new-irish-...
Indie-psych, sound collages, operatic drones, slacker trad, 18 covers of ‘Louie Louie’, two references to the state of Indiana, and a whole lot more.
anoisosard.substack.com/p/new-irish-...
July 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Summer's Anois, Os Ard New Irish Music reviews round-up is here!
Indie-psych, sound collages, operatic drones, slacker trad, 18 covers of ‘Louie Louie’, two references to the state of Indiana, and a whole lot more.
anoisosard.substack.com/p/new-irish-...
Indie-psych, sound collages, operatic drones, slacker trad, 18 covers of ‘Louie Louie’, two references to the state of Indiana, and a whole lot more.
anoisosard.substack.com/p/new-irish-...
Summer New Irish Music round-up tomorrow.
If someone could show me how to adhere to a self-imposed word count that’d be great thanks ffs
If someone could show me how to adhere to a self-imposed word count that’d be great thanks ffs
July 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Summer New Irish Music round-up tomorrow.
If someone could show me how to adhere to a self-imposed word count that’d be great thanks ffs
If someone could show me how to adhere to a self-imposed word count that’d be great thanks ffs
On the one hand, running your own alternative Irish music Substack without an editor is very liberating and allows for lots of fun creative decisions.
On the other hand, you might start what’s meant to be a 150 word capsule review of an experimental electronic album with something like this.
On the other hand, you might start what’s meant to be a 150 word capsule review of an experimental electronic album with something like this.
July 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
On the one hand, running your own alternative Irish music Substack without an editor is very liberating and allows for lots of fun creative decisions.
On the other hand, you might start what’s meant to be a 150 word capsule review of an experimental electronic album with something like this.
On the other hand, you might start what’s meant to be a 150 word capsule review of an experimental electronic album with something like this.
Hi, hello, how’s it going?
The latest Anois, Os Ard Irish music round-up is now online. We've got “spontaneous forest music”, Fluxus-style noise experiments, post-punk recalibrations, club stuff, modular machine funk, sublime DIY dream pop. The works. Dig in
anoisosard.substack.com/p/new-irish-...
The latest Anois, Os Ard Irish music round-up is now online. We've got “spontaneous forest music”, Fluxus-style noise experiments, post-punk recalibrations, club stuff, modular machine funk, sublime DIY dream pop. The works. Dig in
anoisosard.substack.com/p/new-irish-...
June 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Hi, hello, how’s it going?
The latest Anois, Os Ard Irish music round-up is now online. We've got “spontaneous forest music”, Fluxus-style noise experiments, post-punk recalibrations, club stuff, modular machine funk, sublime DIY dream pop. The works. Dig in
anoisosard.substack.com/p/new-irish-...
The latest Anois, Os Ard Irish music round-up is now online. We've got “spontaneous forest music”, Fluxus-style noise experiments, post-punk recalibrations, club stuff, modular machine funk, sublime DIY dream pop. The works. Dig in
anoisosard.substack.com/p/new-irish-...
Had a nice time chatting to Athens-based Dubliner lullahush about his new album, which really pulls off that trick of merging trad with electronic music without sounding corny.
Covering everything from Flann O'Brien and Gilla Band to Wah Wah Wino. Great mix too!
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Covering everything from Flann O'Brien and Gilla Band to Wah Wah Wino. Great mix too!
open.substack.com/pub/anoisosa...
May 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Had a nice time chatting to Athens-based Dubliner lullahush about his new album, which really pulls off that trick of merging trad with electronic music without sounding corny.
Covering everything from Flann O'Brien and Gilla Band to Wah Wah Wino. Great mix too!
open.substack.com/pub/anoisosa...
Covering everything from Flann O'Brien and Gilla Band to Wah Wah Wino. Great mix too!
open.substack.com/pub/anoisosa...
Big day for pianos over here. New Duval Timothy and Eliana Glass records working wonders
May 12, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Big day for pianos over here. New Duval Timothy and Eliana Glass records working wonders
Hi ✨
April's Anois, Os Ard Irish Music round-up is here and includes a two of my favourite albums of the year so far, a needlessly maudlin preamble about Limerick Junction and The Brightening Air, two monologues about water, and lots more. Music is class.
anoisosard.substack.com/p/new-irish-...
April's Anois, Os Ard Irish Music round-up is here and includes a two of my favourite albums of the year so far, a needlessly maudlin preamble about Limerick Junction and The Brightening Air, two monologues about water, and lots more. Music is class.
anoisosard.substack.com/p/new-irish-...
May 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Hi ✨
April's Anois, Os Ard Irish Music round-up is here and includes a two of my favourite albums of the year so far, a needlessly maudlin preamble about Limerick Junction and The Brightening Air, two monologues about water, and lots more. Music is class.
anoisosard.substack.com/p/new-irish-...
April's Anois, Os Ard Irish Music round-up is here and includes a two of my favourite albums of the year so far, a needlessly maudlin preamble about Limerick Junction and The Brightening Air, two monologues about water, and lots more. Music is class.
anoisosard.substack.com/p/new-irish-...
Not really sure what this means but #34 “Rising In Music” on Substack seems positive!?
New newsletter landing this week (maybe next week, hopefully this week, lots to do)
New newsletter landing this week (maybe next week, hopefully this week, lots to do)
April 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not really sure what this means but #34 “Rising In Music” on Substack seems positive!?
New newsletter landing this week (maybe next week, hopefully this week, lots to do)
New newsletter landing this week (maybe next week, hopefully this week, lots to do)
The next Anois, Os Ard Irish Music round-up will be up this week – a few days late, real life stuff, but boy is it full. In the meantime, wouldya just look at this amazing new logo for the newsletter designed by Mel Keane? I am chuffed!
April 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The next Anois, Os Ard Irish Music round-up will be up this week – a few days late, real life stuff, but boy is it full. In the meantime, wouldya just look at this amazing new logo for the newsletter designed by Mel Keane? I am chuffed!
Coincidence that I nearly tripped over this little dude while visiting the Acropolis last week and then this lands? I think not 🧐
March 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Coincidence that I nearly tripped over this little dude while visiting the Acropolis last week and then this lands? I think not 🧐
Bought a Jay Glass Dubs record in Athens and have never felt more validated in my life
March 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Bought a Jay Glass Dubs record in Athens and have never felt more validated in my life
The Proustian headrush looking at this thing just gave me jesus christ
March 7, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The Proustian headrush looking at this thing just gave me jesus christ
Huge month for new Irish music tbh ✨
Industrial sound collage, an ambient fish tribute, live recordings of fiddle tunes and indie shows, electro, psychedelic techno, bockety pop, folkloric harp, more.
All reviewed here. Plus, a new gig series for Londoners!
anoisosard.substack.com/p/new-irish-...
Industrial sound collage, an ambient fish tribute, live recordings of fiddle tunes and indie shows, electro, psychedelic techno, bockety pop, folkloric harp, more.
All reviewed here. Plus, a new gig series for Londoners!
anoisosard.substack.com/p/new-irish-...
February 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Huge month for new Irish music tbh ✨
Industrial sound collage, an ambient fish tribute, live recordings of fiddle tunes and indie shows, electro, psychedelic techno, bockety pop, folkloric harp, more.
All reviewed here. Plus, a new gig series for Londoners!
anoisosard.substack.com/p/new-irish-...
Industrial sound collage, an ambient fish tribute, live recordings of fiddle tunes and indie shows, electro, psychedelic techno, bockety pop, folkloric harp, more.
All reviewed here. Plus, a new gig series for Londoners!
anoisosard.substack.com/p/new-irish-...
So much gold in here but laughed out loud at this quote, courtesy of @cociobh.bsky.social's anecdote
February 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
So much gold in here but laughed out loud at this quote, courtesy of @cociobh.bsky.social's anecdote
When it's Valentine's day and he gives you that look 💜
February 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
When it's Valentine's day and he gives you that look 💜
Like I said when I first published this piece last year, the story of how 'Spring Is Coming...' came to have this amazing second life is not without its share of sadness and disappointment, but I'm so glad it finally got to recognition it always deserved.
anoisosard.substack.com/p/spring-is-...
anoisosard.substack.com/p/spring-is-...
February 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Like I said when I first published this piece last year, the story of how 'Spring Is Coming...' came to have this amazing second life is not without its share of sadness and disappointment, but I'm so glad it finally got to recognition it always deserved.
anoisosard.substack.com/p/spring-is-...
anoisosard.substack.com/p/spring-is-...
I'll happily go to bat for 'Spring Is Coming...' as one of the best Irish pop songs of all time. Both the original and the cover sound so ALIVE and unbridled; López's lyrics convey feelings of yearning and naive hope and of fancying someone so much you might get sick so perfectly.
![It’s the stuff of Big Feelings – of all-consuming infatuation and that borderline combustible longing more usually reserved for journals, internal dialogues and, of course, unsent messages. In the song, López recites them with a dizzying conviction familiar to anyone who's been swept up in the throes of desire, before letting rip with a keening soprano's cadence in the chorus.
At the song’s heart is a sense of unbridled optimism; an embrace of all these chaotic, overwhelming emotions, and a readiness to surf them straight into the next phase. “It’s about [saying] there's a world of possibilities out there, and that this possibility will happen again," López says. "It doesn't matter that maybe I'm a little bit sad today, because the seasons succeed one another, and spring is coming. This too shall pass; spring will come again.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r4qw7gvrlqdzvn7cukfcnuld/bafkreiep3s7wbm45cigdvttkmriari34agreato5ifw22suf7x4r3d4b6i@jpeg)
February 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I'll happily go to bat for 'Spring Is Coming...' as one of the best Irish pop songs of all time. Both the original and the cover sound so ALIVE and unbridled; López's lyrics convey feelings of yearning and naive hope and of fancying someone so much you might get sick so perfectly.