Just Mustard
come from Ireland and are really hot, despite all the coolness in their voices. Singer Katie Ball, guitarists David Noonan and Mete Kalyon, bassist Rob Clarke and drummer Shane Maguire have quickly built a reputation as an infectious new band - both on record and live. Their first album, 2018's Wednesday, was nominated for the Choice Music Prize for Irish Album of the Year right off the bat - and certainly not because it was particularly catchy. This wild mixture of noise, trip-hop, shoegaze, electronically induced music and this languidly dribbling voice, which sometimes seems to sound a semitone off and a tenth of a second too late, penetrates directly into the vegetative nervous system. In the meantime, Just Mustard have found a home on the Partisan Records label, where they have a lot in common with their colleagues there: With Fontaines D.C., for example, who have already accompanied them on tour, the rhythm, with Idles the noise and with Cigarettes After Sex the demonstrative slowness and the echoing voices. With "Heart Under" they have now announced their second album for 27 May. An album that transforms a year of lockdown with personal struggles and endeavours into a stunning artistic statement. An album that cannot be pigeonholed into one genre or era. "Heart Under" is a guitar album with guitars that don't sound like guitars; an album that pushes the traditional envelope to create a thrillingly unique sound and an album unlike any other. What a force the Irish are on stage can be experienced in the great, monochrome concert film "Live In Dreams". Which new band has had the honour of being honoured with its own film shortly after its formation? Exactly. The Irish were then promptly chosen by Robert Smith himself to support The Cure at their gig at Malahide Castle.