May Audio Review: tUnE-yArDs | Ramona Lisa| Swans
Surveying this month's sounds for you featuring tUnE-yArDs, Chad VanGaalen, The Horrors, Woods and Swans.
Album of the Month: Owen Pallett – In Conflict
Pallett’s lyrics are still at times unapproachable, but In Conflict feels like, by a distance, his most emotionally direct album.
Knock Knock, Open Wide: tUnE-yArDs Interview
tUnE-yArDs releases of new Nikki Nack this May. Totally Dublin spoke to her about the personal, political, and the aWkArD tYpOgRaPhY.
Failed Futures: Ben Frost and the Congolese Sound System
When the Australian composer, producer and musician Ben Frost, returned from a visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2012, he brought home to Iceland a plethora of Congolese…
Talk to Frank: Lenny Abrahamson Interview
Frank is Lenny Abrahamson's most ambitious project to date. Totally Dublin picked his brains on, well, pretty much everything.
Literary Review, May
Clarice Lispector tends to get top billing for ‘looking like Marlene Dietrich and writing like Virginia Woolf’. The formula doesn’t just linger because it’s easy to remember: it is kept…