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November 4, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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THE DROUGHT IS OVER
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a Painful conversation with Alex Gough
talking his debut album, the changing shape of curation, the value of events ranging from Clash at the Quays to Blue Niall's Oisín. "I’m giving it five years: the thing a young person says is their fa...
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October 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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all together now festival: Good (...and 3,985 more words)
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atn in review: do we just call it a victory lap?
a review of sorts about the All Together Now weekend; nothing new, but everything bigger than before
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August 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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can we make tiktoks without resorting to slop? an investigation www.tiktok.com/@fourth.best...
thoughts on the movie #sinners, the past, present and future of #irish #folkmusic, two of my favourite albums of last year, artists digging deep into Irish history, the communities we're building, and...
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May 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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maybe we should do merch
ohjann.world 🤏 eoᵹ̇an 🫳 @ohjann.world · Apr 24
finally found the perfect tshirt for walking around as an Irish person in London
tshirt mockup with text "Please don't talk to me about Fontaines DC or The Murder Capital"
April 24, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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ode to gigs of various shapes and sizes www.fourth.best/the-rooms-iv...
the rooms I've been in lately
highlights of the year so far featuring Cold Summit, Peter O'Sullivan, Rita Lynn, OUCH™, and the many gigs that I wish I covered sooner
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April 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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NOT BAD
lighghtmusic.bsky.social Upstanding and Normal Individual @lighghtmusic.bsky.social · Apr 10
So not bad huh?
lighghtmusic.bsky.social Upstanding and Normal Individual @lighghtmusic.bsky.social · Apr 8
My new album as Mineral Stunting, 'Come Rain Come Shine' is out in full today on CD and Digital.

Gulch Ambient

I am really proud of this work and I hope you enjoy it too

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April 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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oh so that's why this has been getting clicks again huh
April 3, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Announcing the new album by Mineral Stunting, ‘Come Rain Come Shine’ on Drift Ritual
two singles, ‘Sink Dub’ and ‘Chasm’ available to hear now
full album releases on April 8th, available as Digital and CD
mastered by The Bastard

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Cover artwork for Mineral Stunting - Come Rain Come Shine The cover features a small square with a video still of a first person perspective of someone riding a jetski. you can see the person's hands and in the corner is the symbol indicating this is from an Instagram reel. The word "Sacrifice" is superimposed over the Jetski. This small square is on a much larger square of dark green that is otherwise completely blank besides the artist name "Mineral Stunting" in the top left corner and the album name "Come Rain Come Shine" in the top right corner An image of the musician Mineral Stunting. They are photographed from the shoulders up and in an angled profile from the camera. They are wearing a black jacket and a green hat. There is a slight blur to the photo. Image credit: Izabela Szczutkowska Handdrawn logo for Drift Ritual. The logo is black on a white background. The logo also contains two drawn candles A picture of the artist Mineral Stunting. They are facing the camera and looking beyond it. They are photographed from the chest up. They are wearing a beige t-shirt, glasses and a green hat. They are in front of some rocks and the sea. The photo is brightly lit by the sun which reflects light in the water Image credit: Izabela Szczutkowska
March 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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only one person has posted the Choice winner on BlueSky so we could totally take over with a disinformation campaign that says it's actually Curtisy right
March 6, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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certified classic www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2oJ...
Fragments of Eternity
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February 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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MAYBE WE LIKE THE MISERY
chats with @nialler9.bsky.social and AI artist "Kawaii Hoe"! north kerry noise! a björk quote! a @peretsky.bsky.social shoutout! a trading card game! indonesian tiktoks! the choice music prize! techbro scum! charli xcx! JPEGMAFIA! father ted!
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music is what we want for our children – the fourth best view on ai
featuring: chats with AI artist "Kawaii Hoe" and the journalist who felt "duped" by him! north kerry noise! a björk quote! a niche trading card game! indonesian tiktoks! the choice music prize! techbr...
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February 25, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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five years of listening to music and scribbling about it in a google doc in this site's first guest post www.fourth.best/guest-post-o...
guest post: ‘one thousand one hundred and one’ by Matthew Xavier Corrigan
In the first guest post for the site, Matthew Xavier Corrigan reflects on five entire years of cataloguing the music he listened to, tracing an outline of the life he lived.
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January 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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in the Whelan. straight up "watching it". and by "it", haha, well. let's just say. Ones
January 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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👑🌇🌆 www.fourth.best/jarjarjrs-ca...
jarjarjr's Catch the Dusk is the Fourth Best album of 2024
How far would you go to create a total work of art, when the world wants you to be something else? Catch The Dusk twists the rules of music's zero-sum game – we must not let it be punished as a result...
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December 28, 2024 at 3:19 PM
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When the likes of Hozier and Fontaines DC play the 3Arena, do they owe us an Irish support act? For the Fontaines, it might settle an ancient score. My latest: www.fourth.best/fuckin-diddl...
fuckin’ ‘diddly-diddly-aye’: assorted notes on Irish music at the end of 2024
Getting through some writer's block with a good old-fashioned rant about an interview from 2019... although it's a weirdly optimistic one. With praise for new music by Pippa Molony and RÓIS, among oth...
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December 20, 2024 at 9:09 PM
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In October I shot another interview with Ahmed, With Love. The footage ended up being... pretty unusable, I'm still new to this. It still ended up being one of my favourite things I've written for the site though. www.fourth.best/im-a-silly-w...
"I'm a silly-wave advocate. There's beauty in the absurd." – a conversation with Ahmed, With Love.
Meeting at the launch of the rapper's mixtape "COMMA, FULLSTOP.", we caught up about pro wrestling, Four Loko, the Irish Hash Mafia, dissing Jamiroquai, Brazillian influences, and more.
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December 20, 2024 at 1:08 PM
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From this September: an hour-long chat with Dylan Murphy at River Runs Round about the future of Irish music media: www.fourth.best/fourth-best-...
fourth best talks #1 | Future of Irish Music Journalism with Dylan Murphy at River Runs Round
In front of a live audience in Plugd Records at the River Runs Round festival in Cork earlier this month, I checked in with Dylan from Mabfield‬ as he prepares to re-launch the beloved Irish music pla...
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December 20, 2024 at 12:33 PM
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From this August: thoughts from the ground at Féile na Gréine, a festival that made me rethink festivals www.fourth.best/feile-na-gre...
Féile na Gréine, unreal time & the festivals we deserve
Thoughts on the festivals I love, including last weekend's phenomenal Féile na Gréine, and why I've gotten involved in the mammoth task of trying to build a new one.
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December 20, 2024 at 11:16 AM
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haven't posted here in a minute let me get you up to speed
December 19, 2024 at 10:40 PM
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new issue of the newsletter on journeys, trad, jazz, "psychogeography" and my pick for the most underrated band in the country
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trá pháidín in perpetual motion: best band in the country
The best band in the country already has three albums out. Trá Pháidín's music strikes this absolutely gorgeous middle ground between post-rock, jazz and Irish traditional music. Under the surface, la...
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August 3, 2024 at 6:25 PM
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two bits from Fourth Best this weekend.

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a story about the tension between art and industry. a (re)introduction to the two Irish rap albums of the year. a labour of love called the Irish Hash Mafia.

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the Irish Hash Mafia and the scene's twin futures
It's a story about the tension between industry and DIY, between going global and putting your friends on, between NEW MUSIC OTW and unexpected zip file. Between major label, indie label, and just hit...
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June 22, 2024 at 8:54 PM
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fourth best on location
Photograph of a camera displaying a photograph taken at the Irish Hash Mafia show in the Button Factory
May 26, 2024 at 8:03 PM
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at the Curtisy show with 2 cameras for a gig report. if you're not already all the way in on Curtisy - you'll find a room full of people who are any time he plays Dublin, to a crowd who's learned the lyrics to a record that dropped three days before.
Curtisy performs at the Workman's Cellar rapper "Ahmed, with Love." holding his mic away from himself while KhakiKid's verse on his song plays. Black and white photograph of Curtisy in the Workmans' Cellar resembling a film photo Curtisy & "Ahmed, with Love." performing together
May 7, 2024 at 3:38 PM