New Tune Disco: Rigsy & Jonny Tiernan - Dec 2013
Across The Line
Jetplane Landing – Beat Generation…Ha!
Jonny Tiernan: ‘I can’t get enough of this band…I’ve got it on lovely white vinyl and it’s never been off my platter since…top 3 ( Irish records of the year)’
Rigsy: ‘There’s not very much more we need to say about that…great, great record’
Femmepop & Timecop 1983 – Timescapes
Jonny: ‘…it’s got a really lovely female vocal, lush synths and I just really like the whole feel of it, the whole vibe…this is a special collaboration’
Insects At Alititude – Tortoiseshell Tortoiseshell
Rigsy: ‘The work of a songwriter and I assume a studio geek Ryan Sands from Newry…I love this kind of quirky, creative pop’
Jonny: ‘Kind of reminds me a bit of Grandaddy…slightly off-kilter enough to make it indie-ish, yeah, I really liked that’
A Step Too Far – Brown Eyes
Rigsy: ‘Pop Punk from Carrick…very, very new band working with the legendary Neal Calderwood’
Jonny: ‘Reminds me of Element, another great N.Irish band from back in the day’
Jape & Villagers – Ribbon, Ribbon, Ribbon
Jonny: ‘Jape & Villagers are two of my all-time favourite Irish artists, hands down, ever. Just so brilliant, so creative, so fantastic…They deconstructed a song and reconstructed it again, and apparently stayed up through the night working on this track…just this kind of organic track they’ve worked on’
Kowalski – Sunroom
Jonny: ‘I was flicking through my records and I spotted this. The cover on it is gorgeous, the ‘K’ for Kowalski is cut out of the sleeve….it just looks great. This album was such a long time coming…and it finally came out this year and it wasn’t disappointing in anyway.
Rachael Boyd – Go Backwards Now!
Rigsy: ‘This is just a remarkable slice of…I don’t even know where you would start with this!’
Jonny: ‘…She has so successfully married those two worlds, that contemporary classical world with the electronica world, it’s almost a bit like Aphex Twin, that Warp-esque beats in the back groundbut with this really lush orchestral tones.
L Con – Oh How Love
Rigsy: ‘Lisa, a very talented young woman…from Ontario but based in Belfast…creativity to rival our own Katharine Philippa…just spectacular’
