The Irish Times

• NEW Mogwai: The Bad Fire review – Plenty of gruff authenticity, plus a ... | The Irish Times | Jan. 23, 2025, 5:01 a.m.
The best Mogwai songs simultaneously grab you by the scruff and spear your heart, and there is at least one such moment on The Bad Fire: the single Fanzine Made of Flesh, which pairs a chugging ...

• David Gray: Dear Life review – Lean into this raw, bumpy album. It’s ... | The Irish Times | Jan. 16, 2025, midnight
A determination to try something new is especially evident on his enjoyably solid 13th studio album, Dear Life, an experimental project for which Gray returns to songs he half-sketched decades ago ...

• The album that nearly finished U2: The story of How to Dismantle an ... | The Irish Times | Nov. 23, 2024, midnight
With 12 million sales and seven Grammys, that album had banished the bad vibes that lingered after Pop, the misfiring 1997 album on which U2 tried to go trip-hop, with disastrous consequences.

• Michael Kiwanuka: Small Changes – More drastic changes might have served him better | The Irish Times
The London-born musician tweaks his sound and thematic concerns, burrowing deeper into the niche he has forged

• U2: How to Re-Assemble an Atomic Bomb track by track review – Hold on to your mirror shades for classic moments and wigged-out curios | The Irish Times
Inevitably for an out-take album, it’s a bit glued together and rough at the edges, but even U2 agnostics will like a lot of the tracks