OLAN MONK - Songs For Nothing LP techno A real stomper

A real stomper

On the occasion of Capital of Culture RUHR

the different pace shifting the warbled cadences so Webster's voice becomes far more important than the additional elements

the LP combines densely layered keyboards and guitars

Then there’s his read of “Dreaming My Dreams

OLAN MONK - Songs For Nothing LP techno A real stomperSongs for Nothing was written upon Olan Monks return to the west coast of Ireland. The album is imbued with the influence of sean ns singing, Irish language songs in the old style that often proclaim tales of love, loss and landscape; and also heavily indebted to the late Sinad OConnors confessional songwriting. Reconstructing these influences through their unique perspective has resulted in a fragmentary album veering between collaged pop, machinic