New launch
Lisa O’Neill
‘The Wind Doesn’t Blow This Far Proper’
DL solely
out now
LTW reviewed O’Neill’s final album, All Of This Is Likelihood in Feb 2023, right here. She offered music for Peaky Blinders, however Ged Babey has solely now found her because of a mates advice.
That is essentially the most lovely tune you’ll hear at this time… and tomorrow, and the day after.
It’s the voice, the phrases, the association…. all the pieces.
It’s a tune that can cease you in your tracks.
It’s additionally the saddest tune you’ll hear at this time, a lament for mans inhumanity to man.
It has a non secular, hymnal high quality… and soul… and compassion… and can, in time come to be considered a tune as nice and essential as ‘Shipbuilding’.
The spirits of Sinead O’Connor and Shane MacGowan spring to mind, maybe not surprisingly, however that is Lisa O’Neill on the high of her sport as a singer and songwriter.
My ignorance of her earlier work is unforgivable – and it was solely because of Brian O’Brien together with the tune in a playlist for Joyzine that I’ve lastly found her.
The tune got here out two weeks in the past. For those who aren’t knocked out by it, then you don’t have any soul.
Lisa’s new 6 tune EP ‘The Wind Doesn’t Blow This Far Proper’ will probably be launched digitally on the nineteenth of November. The bodily EP will comply with early within the new 12 months. The title monitor is out now (pay attention) accompanied by a video directed by Ellius Grace.
“I started scripting this tune in November 2017 and I completed it in January 2025. My tune is a response to the unsettled instances that we dwell in.” – Lisa O’Neill
Nicely carried out if you happen to noticed Kae Tempest, Kevin Rowland, Spider Stacey and Iona Zajac, famend Nigerian/Irish poet Feli Speaks, actresses Olwen Fouéré and Hazel Doupe and actors John McArdle and Jack Walsh amongst many others within the video.
The EP is comprised of a gaggle of six tracks, they embrace the haunting rendition of Bob Dylan’s ‘All The Drained Horses’ that Lisa recorded to soundtrack the closing scene of the ultimate episode of Peaky Blinders, plus ‘Homeless In The 1000’s (Dublin within the Digital Age)’ that includes Peter Doherty, launched as a stand-alone single in January of this 12 months.
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Lisa O’Neill – Official Web site
Autumn 2025 Irish Tour Dates are close to to promoting out – test web site for waitlist and remaining tickets
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