Melts

“MELTS bring many angles of attack to their brand of psych-rock.. It’s invigorating stuff” NME 

“Churning, krautrock-infused psych-rock” Stereogum  

“MELTS make gothy, driving post-punk… a sound that is both cavernous and claustrophobic” Brooklyn Vegan  

Dublin’s MELTS reveal new single ‘Altered’ - the second cut from forthcoming second album ‘Field Theory’ - out April 12th via Fuzz Club (The Jesus And Mary Chain, Night Beats - pre-order here).  
 
"Altered is a love song about how love can be a catalyst that allows you to be more open to the world around you, and transforms your perspective on life. You become influenced by your environment, maybe more vulnerable to it, but overall, more aware of your surroundings" the band explain. 

The tender themes bely the track’s manic sonic spirit. Urgent synth arpeggios usher in vocalist Eoin Kenny’s imperious proclamations, which become ever sharper over a bed of evolving, propulsive krautrock.  

Recorded live to tape at Black Mountain Studios in summer 2023, Field Theory was produced by Gilla Band’s Daniel Fox, and while their debut album Maelstrom (2022), dealt with forces on a larger scale affecting a whole city, Field Theory explores connections on an interpersonal scale.  

The title takes the scientific term Field Theory, which describes how forces interact and influence particles around them, and applies it to the interactions between people, to the space between all of us, how people interact and affect others around them. Expanding on the album’s themes, MELTS detail: 

“Like gravity we are drawn to and miss people and like light waves we love people and are loved. We live in orbits of each other, drawn by unseen forces. The album explores these forces, how we relate to each other, the people we live with and the people we live without. At the heart of Field Theory lies the realisation that we inhabit each other's worlds as much as our own, through a field of wide-ranging forces, as important as the ones keeping the planets in place.” 

Comprising of Robbie Brady, Hugh O'Reilly, Gaz Earle, and Eoin Kenny, MELTS spent 2022/2023 touring their celebrated debut Maelstrom across Europe, the UK, the US and Ireland, including festival appearances at Wide Awake and SXSW. Outside of their own headline dates, they have also toured with Fontaines D.C. and supported Gilla Band and Public Image Ltd. Along the way they have been praised by the likes of NME, Dork, Stereogum, Brooklyn Vegan and PASTE, as well asgaining widespread airplay on BBC 6 Music. 

Produced by Gilla Band’s Daniel Fox, MELTS’ ‘Altered’ is out now (Feb 21) via Fuzz Club and available on all digital platforms. 

MELTS is Eoin Kenny (vocals), Gaz Earle (drums) Robbie Brady (keys/synth), Hugh O’Reilly (guitar) 

'Field Theory' is the second studio album from Dublin four-piece MELTS, due for release April 12th 2024 on Fuzz Club. Recorded live to tape at Black Mountain Studios in Summer 2023 and produced by Gilla Band's Daniel Fox, it's a collection of turbulent electronic psych-rock shaped by bulldozing motorik synth lines, densely layered guitars, primal percussion and the cavernous vocals of frontman Eoin Kenny. While their highly-praised 2022 debut ‘Maelstrom’ dealt with forces on a larger scale affecting a whole city, ‘Field Theory’ explores connections on a smaller, interpersonal scale.

The title takes the scientific term ‘Field Theory’, which describes how forces interact and influence particles around them, and applies it to the interactions between people, to the space between all of us, how people interact and affect others around them. Expanding on the album’s themes, MELTS write: “Like gravity we are drawn to and miss people and like light waves we love people and are loved. We live in orbits of each other, drawn by unseen forces. The album explores these forces, how we relate to each other, the people we live with and the people we live without. At the heart of Field Theory lies the realisation that we inhabit each other's worlds as much as our own, through a field of wide-ranging forces, as important as the ones keeping the planets in place.”