Add these to your playlist.
It’s been an awesome year for Irish music so far with Hozier, Kodaline and Gavin James all making waves in the States and top quality new band after new band emerging from every part of the country.
There have been countless brilliant Irish songs released this year but we’ve decided to whittle it down, so here are 15 of our favourites.
All Tvvins – Thank You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=167&v=XGdWgcJxDCY
Niamh Crowther – Origins
Fight Like Apes – Pretty Keen on Centrefolds
The Strypes – Scumbag City
EMBRZ – Silent feat. Amy Rose
ASIWYFA – Redesigned a Million Times
Villagers – Courage
OTHERKIN – Ay Ay
The Academic – Different
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu8M3Cw6fuU
Young Wonder – Enchanted
David Keenan – El Paso
Jape – This Chemical Sea
VANN MUSIC – Boy
Hozier – Work Song
Ash – Machinery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbCANGMyBrs
To save you the bother of playing all of those songs individually, we’ve created a very handy YouTube playlist with all 15 songs.
LISTEN: You Must Be Jokin’ with Aideen McQueen – Faith healers, Coolock craic and Gigging as Gaeilge