RELEASE DATE
25/6/21
Tracks:
My Brilliant Friend / Dynamite / Karaoke Song / The Place That I Work
/ Irish Hour / Date Night / Oh My Oh Canada / Manchester Air / House 9 / Any
Dreams?
There has been a buzz surrounding these girls for quite some time.
Hailing from the north of Ireland, Morgana MacIntyre (Belfast) and
Gemma Doherty (Derry) met in Dublin in 2014.
Both had graduated from the same college that summer and stayed in the city
to pursue music. Built around mesmerising close-knit vocal harmonies, electro-acoustic harp and synthesisers, sonically they have been likened to Enya,
Lisa Hannigan, Cocteau Twins. Their 2018 debut LP ‘Shape of Silence’ was met
with critical acclaim and nominated for the Choice Music Prize and the Northern Irish Music Prize.
Where I Should End is the sophomore album release from the band, recorded
with R an Trench in The Meadow, Co. Wicklow, and mixed in Berlin with Benedikt MacIsaac.
Written on and off the tour cycle of their debut album Where I Should End
seeks to find meaning in a world that doesn’t stand stll. Doherty and MacIntyre
challenged themselves to create a distinctive and audible shift in their sound.
There’s a playfulness, a messiness that was never there before and where vulnerability is laid out in broad daylight, subtle jokes pierce the darkness. Retaining layered, folk-driven harmonies in shared verses and the bones of traditonal
music in melodies, they go bigger with the instrumentation; adding synths,
drum machines and electronic pulses to reflect the lives that they lead.