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  • Miracle Bell: Light Shape Sound Review

    LightShapeSoundsinglecover For the fourth single from their album, Miracle Bell opened up to their fans and let them decide what it was going to be. Title track from the album ‘Light Shape Sound’ came out on top.

    This doesn’t seem like a fourth single from an album, it’s melodic, has a memorable hook, has all the characteristics of a first or second single. ‘Light Shape Sound’ is probably more indie than the preceding singles but Miracle Bell still remain true to their electro branding with subtle synth sounds throughout the mix.

    Lyrically the track concept is very clever. ‘In the light, we won’t feel shapes but we’ll feel the sound’. Musically, there’s tight production but the instruments never seem overcrowded. Melikes!

    This track has done two things for me. 1.Thanks to its refrain, I would now like to go to Barcelona. 2. Proves what a great Irish band Miracle Bell are. I can’t wait for new material.

    miraclebell.com

  • Futures Apart: Perfection Review

    Futures Apart hit the Irish music scene in 2010 with the track ‘Andrew’s Pride’, a perfect electro pop song. How do you get better than that? Up the tempo and the intensity. That’s exactly what they’ve done with ‘Perfection’.

    No messing around here, straight away vocals are wrapped around two siren like arrangements before hitting the chorus for a full on dance groove. It work’s really well and leaves room for lots of remix versions.

    The arrangements and production are again spot on and given the current growing electro scene in the UK, these guys are on the cusp of greater things. It’s not too often that I say it. I love Futures Apart.

    breakingtunes.com/futuresapart

  • Gary Moore RIP

    The Irish music scene is saddened and stunned by the death of Gary Moore today.

    I first remember hearing ‘Out in the Fields’ in 1985 when the local folk group, of which I was a member, went off for a day trip. This became our anthem for the day.  I was 12. It was only after that I became aware of the unbelievable guitar ability of Gary Moore and that he was in Thin Lizzy.

    May he rest in peace

  • Funeral Party: Live at Academy 2: Review

    The Academy 2: February 1st 2011

    Funeral Party are one of those bands I’ve been keeping an eye on lately. The LA band have a mix of Indie, punk dance and funk in their sound and I was curious to see how this would stand up live.

    The Academy 2, or The Basement as I call it, was sparsely populated as the band came to the stage to a modest reception. Singer Chad Elliot asks the audience to come closer to the stage after the first song and slowly the band start to convert the partisan crowd. By the time Funeral Party play ‘Car Wars’  the crowd are bopping. The mix of fantastic drumming and a pumping funky bass lines are hard to resist. Pity though, the vocals were so low in the mix.

    Frontman Chad was faced with a couple of ‘eagar’ fans, after challenging one to a drinking contest after the show, I think the lady in question though it was her lucky night. One drawback though of the audience being so close to the stage is poor auld Chad has a camera constantly stuck in his face. I mean 2 inches away.

    The band worked their way through the tracks from ‘The Golden Age of Knowhere’ with ‘Finale’ getting the biggest reaction of the night. They finished their set with ‘NYC moves to the sound of LA’, before coming back for an encore of ‘Just Because’. It’s a pity this was the end of the set, as Eliott really started letting go and climbing across the drumkit and hanging from beams on stage, which really seems to suits the vibe of this basement gig.

    Funeral Party have a great indie funk feel.  Highlights were the singles but with the album only out a week, it should give the band more opportunities to expand their fanbase in the next while. Pity there weren’t more people there to see this. I really enjoyed it.

    Special Thanks to MCD and Goldenplec (more…)