CLOUD Castle Lake have been around for some eight or nine years now. Brendan William Jenkinson, Rory O’Connor, and Daniel McAuley played music together since their days in school but remarkably only released their debut the ‘Dandelion EP’ last September.
Despite very little music being officially released by Cloud Castle Lake they have built up a loyal cult following for their mix of equal parts pastoral folk and soaring post-rock crescendos. They have supported touring acts such as Glasser, Lisa Hannigan and Nigel Godrich’s Ultraísta and have appeared at festivals all around the country, including Electric Picnic and Body & Soul. They were invited to perform in Toronto at Canadian Music Week, sold out a performance with the Trinity Orchestra in Dublin’s Unitarian Church.
The band recorded hours of material over the summer months and since then have slowly refined and stripped back the music to its core elements then recorded, re-recorded, edited, discarded and again re-imagined in further recordings until satisfied that they had captured on record what they always strived for in live performance. The process left only the strongest ideas standing which can be heard on the atmospheric and dynamic Dandelion EP, and the recent single, the other worldly ‘Glacier’.
Hear Cloud Castle Lake at Kasbah Social Club, Dolan’s this Saturday March 28.
Cloud Castle Lake bring soaring post-rock crescendos to Kasbah Social Club
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