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Five vital Irish albums for your St Patrick s Day
Updated / Wednesday, 17 Mar 2021
13:31
Multimedia Journalist
First off, this short list is not made up of typically Irish-sounding albums to shake your shillelagh to for the day that s in it. Instead, here are some classic Irish records you may have overlooked the first time around or which are well worth a listen now.
In Towers and Clouds - The Immediate
If ever an album hit the lofty heights of its title, it’s this 2006 debut from short-lived Dublin act The Immediate. Crisp, kinetic, and urgent,
In Towers and Clouds
The Immediate are exhilarating on