I cant stop listening to you sing  this .... holy cow

elkyn has released his debut album, ‘holy spirit social club’, which sees elkyn aka Joey Donnelly put his uncensored inner dialogue on paper, bravely airing the thoughts most wouldn’t dare expose. Whether that’s hurtful messages to one’s self, vague and elusive memories or lingering lessons from childhood, it’s all here on ‘holy spirit social club’, unfiltered and searingly honest. 

This sincerity is matched in the music. While the arrangements on ‘holy spirit social club’ are far more expansive than those heard on 2020 EP ‘beech’, tender finger picks and elkyn’s distinctive half-whisper still remain at its heart. Though the pain is palpable, its impact is meditative, enveloping the listener in a safe haven where you feel free to acknowledge the darker parts of yourself. 

Rainy regret-tinged evenings dominate ‘holy spirit social club’. ‘everything looks darker now’, reflects ruefully on how Donnelly shied away from an old friend who unexpectedly came to a rainy gig in Manchester. While ‘change’ finds him on the streets of Yorkshire, revisiting his family home and wondering whether he had fulfilled his father’s desire for him to ‘become a man’ - a sore point that resurfaces again and again on ‘holy spirit social club’. 

This unflinching honesty has seen elkyn become a streaming success in recent months, with the one-off singles that followed ‘beech’ making it on to a number of Spotify editorial playlists. After a lockdown spent demoing, he entered Nave Studios with producer Mark Gustafson, creating more complete songs than ever before. The process was so cathartic for Donnelly that he went on to name the album after the social club that once existed in the basement below the aforementioned studio. 

Whilst elkyn isn’t exactly kind to himself on ‘holy spirit social club’, it does see him lift a monumental weight from his shoulders. In elkyn’s words, it’s “an interim into writing nicer songs and being nicer to myself”. In creating ‘holy spirit social club’, he has faced demons that he’s shied away from for too long, finding a way back to himself that previously felt impossible. It’s only by sitting with your darkest moments that you can begin to glimpse the light - ‘holy spirit social club’ is proof of that and a whole lot more.

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TRUE LOVE is the 1st release of CEITHRE CINN. In the height of lockdown '21, a small window opened for 4 incredible musical artists to meet up at the legendary Black Mountain Studios in Ireland for 3 days. 

Funded by First Contact Music and their much needed Music Industry Stimulus Package, Suzanne Savage, Matt McGinn, Ciaran Lavery & Finnian Kelleher were allowed some time and a beautiful space to write and record together. 

It was not known what would come out of the writing retreat, but the results were astonishing. 

This first release is called 'TRUE LOVE' and was written by all four members of Ceithre Cinn, and recorded live later that day. The song was created while the members reflected over loved ones lost, through the pandemic and before. It soon became clear that it was not the massive moments shared that they missed the most, but the simple ones...like sitting on the sofa, cuddled up...watching TV. 

TRUE LOVE is released on all download and streaming platforms on April 25th 2022

WATCH OFFICIAL VIDEO OF 'TRUE LOVE'
https://youtu.be/p8Dt13eNd00

TRUE LOVE

As it Seems

Lives Defined By Winter Skies (SINGLE EDIT)

Choking me
I can't breath
Suffocating

It's killing me
Slowly
And painfully

Physically
Mentally
Emotionally 

Sinking deep down
Shame filling my lungs
I'm drowning can't someone come help me get up? 

I´m falling and
falling and
falling
deeper down the hole

Emotionless shadows reassuring it´s ok
A darkness eating my life away,
i cant do anything but to obey.

Gently and smoothly down the line,
Crossing is off the charts , hey, im not fine.
I´m pointing on all the signs, i´m pushing all the buttons at once, i´m screaming and shouting in vain, i no longer feel the pain

sinking
deeper and
deeper down the hole
the slumber keeps feeding of my soul
keep asking me, is this the eternal sleep?

can hear them whisper , weeping lying 
praying for the damned
closing my eyes, i´m falling and drowning all at the same time,
feeling a gentle touch and a kiss goodbye

Gently and smoothly down the line,
Crossing is off the charts , hey, im not fine.
I´m pointing on all the signs, i´m pushing all the buttons at once, i´m screaming and shouting in vain, i no longer feel the pain

IX - Drowning

0 = 0

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