Name: Anna Mullarkey - Sometimes by Strange Brew
Duration: 4 min 6 s
Description: Exploring themes of personal growth, confusion, and uncertainty, Mullarkey uses analogue synthesisers and samples in this modern, minimalist new track. The probing beat and escalating electronic chimes are combined with an enchanting, ethereal voice, which draws the listener in. It is ominous and disquieting, but also suggests the potential for self-acceptance.

the sum of the in-between

eight hours

Here’s Strange Brew #274 - No Stopping Me  - with gugai on 8radio.com  - 	Tommy Tiernan tells me about his favourite song {.} Houseplants, Elaine Mai feat. Sinead White, Silverbacks, Elephant, Snail Mail, Lala Lala, The Altered Hours, Bobsleigh Bob, Of All Living Things & Piglet

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Strange Brew #274 No Stopping Me

Exploring themes of personal growth, confusion, and uncertainty, Mullarkey uses analogue synthesisers and samples in this modern, minimalist new track. The probing beat and escalating electronic chimes are combined with an enchanting, ethereal voice, which draws the listener in. It is ominous and disquieting, but also suggests the potential for self-acceptance.

Anna Mullarkey - Sometimes

I dont have a shred of love inside of me
you stole everything and just left me an empty soul
my tears are now inert deserts
and my heart beats so weak that I cannot feel 

all dreams are gone far away
tell me there something more 
than an empty soul
did you ever try to relieve a heart
with almost dry tears
and stay completely alive

the stars are knives tearing my eyes
and the night is so dark that I think it will never dawn
for hours try to understand what I felt
I just want to sleep and not wake up again

did you ever feel so much pain
when the rain falls
while taking your life
like a torn branch in the storm
I was never so weak
and I will never be

almost silence

Dublin-based songwriter Paddy Hanna today reveals “Cannibals”, the first track from his forthcoming album The Hill. “Cannibals” is out now on all digital platforms. The Hill, which will be released on September 25th, is available to pre-order via https://www.strangebrew.ie/

As Paddy explains about the new single - “Cannibals is a maze of conflicted thought, it asks the question, are we decent people or demons in cheap wigs? The track mixes organic with inorganic sounds to create that conflict, acoustic instruments blend with found drum sounds while woozy synthesisers create an uncertain haze. The end-result, I hope, is something resembling Ennio Morricone by way of Late period Tom Waits, but I’ll let you draw your own conclusions”.  

The album features Girl Band’s Adam Faulkner and Daniel Fox on Drums & Double Bass, Daniel Fitzpatrick (Badhands, The Mighty Stef) on guitar & Keys and Jill Redmond on Vocals. The record was produced by Daniel Fox and the artwork was designed by Jill Redmond. 

Paddy explains further about the album – “We lost ourselves on the Hill, Daniel, Daniel, Adam and I. a seemingly endless spell of isolation spent banging sheet metal, rusted hubcaps and blistering our fingers through non stop recording. 

The Hill is an internal musical about how the past and the present exist at the same time in our minds. It deals with the struggles of mental health, the sometimes difficult search for happiness and the moral conflict of growing up in Catholic Ireland. 

As a listener I want you to take a seat inside my head, to smell the west cork air, to feel the gravel under your feet. In order to get this we set up ambient mics outside our makeshift studio to capture the natural landscape, we wandered boatyards and an abandoned train station recording old bits of metal we would clang, to give the album a sense of place. Sonically we also wanted to step away from the String sections used on Leafy Stiletto, opting instead to create melodies and tones using vocals and synthesisers. 

Most importantly however, I just wanted to put the past behind me on this record, I wanted to leave it on the hill. I hope you enjoy my therapy”. 

Hanna’s third album will be released via Strange Brew

Paddy Hanna - Cannibals

Here’s Strange Brew #214 - Cannibals  - with gugai on 8radio.com. From the archives, Wayne Coyne from The Flaming Lips tells me about his favourite song, plus music from Sinead White, Swimmers Jackson, Cherym, Denise Chaila, Bleeding Heart Pigeons, Proper Micro NV, Khruangbin and R.S.A.G.

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Strange Brew #214 Cannibals

Horsefeather High

Released January 29th, 2021. 

Taken from 'Home', the debut album from Elaine Mai. Listen: ffm.to/elainemaihome

Written and produced by Elaine Mai. Lyrics and vocals by MayKay. 

Additional production, mix and master by Diffusion Lab. 

No Forever (feat. MayKay) [Radio Edit]

Martha

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Anna Mullarkey - Sometimes

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