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CODA: And So I Watch You From Afar - Animal Ghosts

Played this for what might be the first time ever at their huge Ulster Hall show last month so making sure we squeeze it in. |/\|

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And So I Watch You From Afar - "Animal Ghosts" (Official)
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January 19, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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Thumper - There Will Be Blood

Started with an Irish band and we're playing out with one too - the Dublin sextet's second album Sleeping With the Light On is out Friday February 20th, and they play the Academy on Wednesday March 4th. 🩸

See you next month 💜
January 19, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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🎶 Squarehead - Harder to Explain

The perennial Dublin favourites dropped their new album Ossory Road (their first since 2019's High Time) out of nowhere last month, so we had to play something from it 🟪
January 19, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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🎶 Dry Cleaning - Joy

The London band's third album Secret Love is their best yet, out now via @4ad.com, and they play their biggest ever Dublin headline show at Vicar Street on Friday April 17th 👕
January 19, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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🎶 of Montreal - Don't Let Me In America

This song has aged so well and that absolutely sucks, so we wanna say three things:

FUCK ICE. CHINGA LA MIGRA. JUSTICE FOR RENEE NICOLE GOOD, KEITH PORTER, SILVERIO GONZÁLEZ AND EVERYONE WHO'S DIED AT THE HANDS OF THESE FUCKING SCUMBAGS. ✊
January 19, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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🎶 Greywind - The Scarecrow

The Killarney sibling pair Steph and Paul O'Sullivan's long-gestating second album Severed Heart City finally arrived last Friday after being shunted back four months. Absolutely worth the wait 🌆
January 19, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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🎶 @sweetpill.bsky.social - Glow

The Philadelphia band impressed with Where the Heart Is in 2022, and their incoming second album Still There's A Glow is set to take some big swings. It lands on Friday March 13th 🕯️
January 19, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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🎶 Silversun Pickups - The Wreckage

This is our favourite song by SSPU in a MINUTE and bodes well for the LA band's new record Tenterhooks, out on Friday February 6th 🪝
January 19, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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🎶 goo - Payday

WE GOT GOO ON OUR PLAYLIST PLS HELP

The Yorkshire band impressed us supporting PUP in London last year, and their debut album is on the way this year. Breaking our replay button with this song in the meantime 💸
January 19, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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🎶 The Twilight Sad - DESIGNED TO LOSE

Incidentally yesterday was seven years since this Glasgow now-duo's IT WON/T BE LIKE THIS ALL THE TIME. They're FINALLY back with IT'S THE LONG GOODBYE via @rockactionrecords.scot on Friday March 27th, and play Dublin on Saturday May 9th. 🪙
January 19, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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🎶 @formerhero.bsky.social - years

Music from two of our most anticipated 2026 records back-to-back because we're good to you. First up is Mike Jones returning as Former Hero, with the follow-up to 2023's means to an end set to arrive in the spring. 🌱
January 19, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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🎶 Overmono - Paradise Runner

Feel like Tom and Ed Russell are gonna go supernova when their second album drops. We loved their 2023 debut Good Lies, and the Welsh-born London duo sound ready to level up. Keeping our eyes peeled for news 🏃
January 19, 2026 at 12:12 PM
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🎶 Madeon - Car Crash Baby

YEAH! LA-based French artist Hugo Leclerq's new album may be called Victory but it sounds like he's already won by the sounds of the second single. The follow-up to Good Faith is expected this side of summer. 🚗
January 19, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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🎶 Tigercub - Fall In Fall Out

You love to see a band who got their start on @ilovealcopop.bsky.social still CRUSHING it a decade later - the Brighton band's fourth album Nets to Catch the Wind arrives Friday April 10th, and the lead single absolutely goes IN. 🐯
January 19, 2026 at 12:05 PM
⚡ HIGH VOLTAGE TRACK OF THE MONTH ⚡

Chalk - I.D.C.

The most promising band in the country? For our money, absolutely. The Belfast band's highly-anticipated debut album Crystalpunk arrives on Friday March 13th, with Dublin and Belfast dates following in May. It's ALL happening. 💎
January 19, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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🎶 Hot Mulligan - Carbon Monoxide Hotel

The Michigan band play a sold-out (!) Dublin show on Sunday March 15th, in support of their excellent new record The Sound A Body Makes When It's Still. Brighton band Delta Sleep support. ⚕️
January 19, 2026 at 11:57 AM
DOWN THE FRONT WITH... Stella Donnelly

Her Sidefest-closing headline set absolutely BLEW US AWAY. It doubled as a celebration of her new album Love and Fortune, released earlier in November. Hoping she returns to Ireland this year, tempted to travel if not.

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🎶 Standing Ovation 👏
January 19, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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🎶 Peaer - Bad News

The first album in more than six years from this Brooklyn band arrived on Friday, fresh and ready to eat. It's called Doppelgänger, and that's good news for anyone who was wondering where they'd been 🍐
January 19, 2026 at 11:48 AM
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🎶 @ratboysband.bsky.social - The World, So Madly

We can't play our favourite song on this record because their label would shout at us so we compromised with the new single from the Chicago band's brilliant Singin' to an Empty Chair, out on Friday February 6th. 🐀
January 19, 2026 at 11:45 AM
💿 ALBUM OF THE MONTH 💿

@theformat.com - Boycott Heaven

Celebrated Arizona pair Nate Ruess and Sam Means release their first album since 2006 this Friday and we can't be normal about it. OMFG.

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Holy Roller/Boycott Heaven 😇
January 19, 2026 at 11:37 AM
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🎶 @formerhero.bsky.social - Let Me In Frame

Mike Jones resurrected Former Hero toward the end of last year, and the Yorkshire man's got a third album under that name arriving in the spring. This is the opener from his 2021 @bitbird.bsky.social debut, Footpaths 🛣️
January 19, 2026 at 11:31 AM
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🎶 Owen Pallett - This is the Dream of Emma and Cam

We would very much like a new record from this Ontarian, because the pair of new songs we heard when they supported Villagers here at the end of 2024 were very good indeed. Maybe arriving on @dominorecordco.bsky.social this year???
January 19, 2026 at 11:29 AM
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🎶 Known Moons - Time

Sometimes bands we like (hi @barelycivil.bsky.social forgot you were on here whoops) do splits with bands totally new to us, and clearly something's in the water in Wisconsin because this Known Moons song is EXCELLENT. We're suckers for brass-led bridges tbh 🎷
January 19, 2026 at 11:26 AM
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🎶 Barely Civil - Bang! Slam! Crash!

The first new material from this band since 2024's I'd Say I'm Not Fine, they're putting out a split EP with fellow Wisconsinites Known Moons on February 6th, and we've got a song from their side coming up next 🚪
January 19, 2026 at 11:20 AM
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🎶 Sly Withers - Make My Mind Up

One of our favourite discoveries of 2025 via a PACKED acoustic set on the last day of Sidefest in Perth back in November - they've got a new record on the way in the first half of 2026 and we're standing by for news 👀
January 19, 2026 at 11:17 AM