Cluas.com is an Irish music webzine to which I’ve contributed since 2003, while I was still in secondary school. It took a back seat to my contributions to the University Observer when I got to UCD but I’ve done the odd album review for them in the meantime.
In a couple of cases I can’t find an exact date for publication so I’ve had to approximate one.
Review Snapshot: Things could have gotten very quiet for Jape in the last few years, but Ritual will be banishing any barren times for Richie Egan. Not a perfect album, but a magnificent one nonetheless. If music was food, Ritual would satisfy more tastes than most. The Cluas Verdict? 8.5 out of 10 Full Review: […]
Review Snapshot: Swedish (we think) five-piece debut with a sound collection of works that – regretfully – seem too comfortable in their own skin to reach out and engage the listener in an anotherwise worthwhile listen. The Cluas Verdict? 5.5 out of 10 Full Review: Rubies are a five-piece built around the longstanding pair of […]
Review Snapshot: Self-styled new era icon and soon-to-be-more-minted hotel heiress throws money at a childhood fantasy, hires decent producers and produces an album that the money men will love and everyone else will just go ‘nyeh’ to. The Cluas Verdict: 6.5 out of 10. Full Review: Within the first nine seconds of her eponymous debut […]
Review Snapshot: Sixth studio album from Manchester uber-deities. With the score for the brothers Gallagher tentatively weighted at two albums ‘for’ and three ‘against’, a band motto “we didn’t have the songs” is losing credibility. Under attack, our heroes retreat to the studio living on borrowed time. Will Father Time catch up with them forever? […]
Review Snapshot: The Neil Hannon Show rolls into town for the final date in a week-long Irish tour with double-bass and accordion in tow. The CLUAS Verdict? 8 out of 10 Before the show nobody was quite sure what to expect from Neil Hannon and his newly, slimmed-down Divine Comedy; it had only been a […]
Act: Damien Rice Album: ‘O’ Overlooked initially upon its 2002 release, O is a true success story of romantic proportions. Taking Ireland, the UK, Europe and now the US by storm, largely through word-of-mouth, it’s the stuff of legend. Gifted musician fronts Next Big Thing (Juniper), leaves on verge of greatness, emigrates to continental Europe […]
as part of Cluas’s ten best videos of all time feature. Radiohead – ‘Just’ Taken from the band’s 1995 offering, The Bends, it’s fair to say that this video did as much as the music in bringing Radiohead’s new blends to the masses. As the band watch the street below a man walking by decides […]
A few things to point out first: (a) This is not a jazz album in the unapproachable sense – there are Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Buckley covers here; (b) This is not some pet project funded by BBC’s Michael Parkinson for some upstart he happens to like. This is a bona fide listenable and enjoyable […]
Ed O’Brien, Radiohead perpetual nice-guy guitarist, reckons if his band were a football team, they’d be Man United and not Real Madrid, as Coldplay’s Chris Martin thinks. If he’s right, then, just as the Red Devils were written off and then returned with a bang (albeit unconvincingly) to regain Champions status, so Radiohead will soon […]
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