New Alt Rock: His Father’s Voice + “Black Poison Morning”

11 Sept

A Brooding debut album from the Limerick New-wave band

For fans of Just Mustard, My Bloody Valentine and New Dad, His Father’s Voice is the newest Irish new wave / shoegazey band to get on your radar. Combining soaring pop melodies, muscular rhythms and immersive guitars, the band have unleashed quite the listening experience onto listeners with their debut album.

Comprised of singer/guitarist Ash O’Connor, lead guitarist James Reidy, and the rhythmic combo of Laya Meabhdh Kenny on bass and Cian McGuirk on drums, Chapter One of His Father’s Voice is an enticing one. The album has quite the team behind it, with recording and mixing by Micheál Keating, co-production by Micheál and the band in The Den, Co. Limerick and mastereing by Dan Coutant. Finished with artwork Laya Meabhdh Kenny and Hugh Heffernan, it will be physically available as a vinyl LP from the Blowtorch Records online store, to those that wish to drool over it in the flesh.

About the LP the band explain:

"The album title was inspired by a quote from Kevin Barry’s short story ‘Across the Rooftops’. The story sits in hesitance and awkwardness, delivered with such familiar phrasing within such a familiar setting to that of our own. For us, this totally resonated with the challenges the album grapples with and tries to grow and learn from."

“Black Poison Morning” is a great introductory album to a band with so much exploring to do. Deep, dark and dense with riffage, His Father’s Sound have opened us up to a thundering new-wave sound - like a mysterious but mesmerising cousin to a light and hazy shoegaze member on the other side of the family.