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NewDad
NewDad
country: Ireland
genre: Indie
styles: Shoegaze, Post-Rock, Slo-Fi, Alternative Rock
MADRA
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Sublime songs from Ireland’s next great guitar band
Confident and propulsive, the shoegaze-pop of this Galway four-piece is a truly rewarding experience
With this debut album, it’s clear that the band has evolved, both in sound-wise and they’re portrayal of universal feelings. It’s an album that feels personal to whoever listens, and yet still discerns itself as belonging to NewDad through the use of elevated sound and new dream-pop styles. As a debut, it cements the band as one with a long path ahead of them. As an album, it’s a deeply moving, mesmerizing work with themes that stick with you long after listening.
Good news for the old heads and young reminiscers of the late 80s and 90s; Shoegaze is here to stay, kids!
NewDad’s debut LP ‘Madra’ mixes Rock with shoegaze, dipping into sweetness in its vulnerability, as well as exercising power and taking charge in unbalanced situations. The aforementioned title is, firstly, a word in Gaelic for dog. The four piece (consisting of lead singer and guitarist Julie Dawson, bassist Cara Joshi, drummer Fiachra Parslow and lead guitarist Sean O'Dowd), have been vocal in their pride for the Irish language and this incorporation through the title works perfectly to represent their values and themes of the album at the same time. The dog in question is a reference the things that follow you around, that entwines perfectly with all that is expressed through the lyricism of, this constant pervading sense of feeling smaller than what you are, with a singular burst out of this bubble feeling like a massive high.
One to watch: NewDad
The Galway alt-rockers are the latest in a rich seam of young Irish bands, with a sound bringing to mind the existential angst of the Cure and New Order
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