Henry Brill Vs Owen Lewis Vs Alex McArtor

So, somewhere in the region of eighteen months ago, I woke up to a barrage of texts from Henry Brill, telling me about this artist he’s seen playing in a club in Nashville that evening. I wish I could find the conversation, as the messages were basically a compendium of the most superlative superlatives going and it’s quite the way to start your day waking up to that level of positivity from a drunk, hairy man 4000 miles away.

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Rocky O’Reilly Vs HAVVK

Produced, engineered and mixed from his Belfast home, Start Together, HAVVK premiered their newest single Home on Hot Press last week. It’s more highly politicised, hook laden magic from the Dublin based band and sounds absolutely enormous played very, very loud.

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Henry Brill Vs dePresno

I really, really like a lot of Nordic music, but there are still few Nordic artists that I like as much as Bergen’s Bjarte dePresno Borthen, AKA dePresno, so I was delighted when he and Henry Brill hit it off at a writing camp a few years ago (writing the tremendous Too Fucked Up To Love You on the day they met). I was even more delighted when Bjarte visited Nashville (along with collaborator and producer, Askjell) to write a record with Henry.

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