Posts by Eoin Murray
Was worth a shot!
Entirely depends on if I could get you out of retirement 😉
Do I know any music journalists on here who are proper Boards Of Canada nerds? Make yrsels known if so
She’s also the reason Chicane’s ‘Saltwater’ is quite possibly the greatest trance track of all time
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Wrote a lengthy essay about Clannad and how they deserve to be critically reevaluated in the same way Enya (former member, and Moya's sister) rightly has over the past decade or so. So much special music in their discography, carried in huge part by Moya's voice. You can read it here.
Very sad to learn that Moya Brennan has died. RIP ✨
The first and only person to ever sing in Irish on Top Of The Pops, a celestial voice who helped bridge Irish folk music into an electronic realm in a way that I still think deserves a proper reappraisal today. Blasting Clannad today, as should u
Something to listen on this soggy Easter Sunday?
Many such cases
Anois, Os Ard is back, just in time for yr long weekend.
Wrote about dreamestate indie-pop, folk-horror soundscapes, notes on becoming and the apocalypse, ‘90s internet star ambience, a breakthrough rap masterclass, some drone stuff, some club stuff, all sorts!
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Hell yeah
A pleasure and privilege to work with one of my favourite profile writers to commission, Michael McKinney, on something a little different for us at DJ.
He spoke to several DJs and collectives where he lives in Minneapolis about how the DIY scene there is standing up against ICE in recent months
Happy 100th birthday Frank O'Hara
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Never watching football again
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SHIT
The thing about Czechia is they always try to shoulder it in
the question on everyone's lips today
Had a really nice time interviewing one of my actual heroes a little while ago
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Have said this before in other forms, but will reiterate it here: if you're doing long-form writing of any sort, reading the words aloud into a microphone is a completely unparalleled cheat code. It's free, easy, and so effective it feels like it shouldn't be allowed. I do it in a few stages...
You can listen to Pepe Bradock's 'Deep Burnt' whenever you want you know
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Played for the final time at Corsica Studios.
The recording is now online.
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Incredible gig. Cried a bit!
Sound is great in Koko but jesus christ, place had the most chronic case of Men Yapping at the back I'd encountered in a long while. Not to mention the £8 pint!
The first gig was Moderat, lol
Seeing Caroline tonight in the same venue I went to on my first ever trip to London almost exactly 12 years ago to the day, and which I haven't been to since. With the same pal and all. As if I needed any more reasons to get emotional listening to this record.
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Been listening to the Friendship album these past few weeks and, holy moly, this two track combo really did me in on the commute this morning