IT HAS been a quiet year in Limerick so far for record releases, and now this week two Limerick bands, Windings and Fox Jaw will release new material writes Eric FitzGerald, [email protected]
Windings
LIMERICK label Out On A Limb Records and Dublin based label Popical Island have joined forces to release music from Limerick’s Windings and Dublin band Land Lovers. The labels will release an 11-track split album on 12” vinyl and download on February 28. The album is preceded by a double-A side radio-only single featuring ‘Neverwood’ (Windings) and ‘Vittima di Cucina’ (Land Lovers).
This is the first new Windings’ material since the release of their Choice Music Prize nominated album, ‘I Am Not The Crow’. “The 5-piece have spent the intervening time gigging in Ireland and the UK and writing the tracks that will be part of a new Windings’ release later in the year,” reports OOAL’s Ciarán Ryan.
Land Lovers meanwhile are one of the bands spearheading Popical Island’s rise to Irish indie’s top table and they kick off their side with the single ‘Vittima di Cucina’, a full-throttle collision of Denim, Shonen Knife and early REM.
The two bands will embark on a small nationwide tour to support the split vinyl release coming to Dolan’s on Friday March 7.
Fox Jaw
THE band formerly known as Fox Jaw Bounty Hunters has made the long awaited return with new material.
“This isn’t a band reinventing themselves, this is plain and simple evolution,” says the band who return, not only with a new abbreviated name, but has an armada of new material, new recruits, and being some years older and wiser say they are now, “equipped with a sagacious mind for the road ahead.”
The new single ‘Kerosene’ is on release this week. The video directed by the Fox Jaw’s drummer Shane Serrano is based on a concept conjured up with Blind Boy Boatclub of The Rubberbandits.
It stars Kevin Kiely Jnr. (‘World War Z’, ‘The Dark Knight Rises’) and features a grisly performance from Richard Lynch. The video for Kerosene is a twisted and tense experience and a thrilling introduction to their upcoming sophomore album, ‘Ghost’s Parade’, recorded with producer Dave ‘Skippy’ Christophers (Josh Ritter, Whipping Boy) and engineer Owen Lewis (Snow Patrol, REM).
Fox Jaw embark on a nationwide tour this week taking in Dublin, Cork and Dublin. The band plays Seoda Shows, Cobblestone Joe’s, on Thursday March 6.
