Tag: Olan Monk
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Culturedarm’s Records of the Year for 2025

Albums of the Year
For roughly half of the year I listened to everything, almost or near enough. Then I wilted, or the opposite of that, for come the summer I perked up in my stool and began to listen to summer ambiances like the chirping of birds, the splashing of hose pipes and water pistols or the sizzling of a barbecue. As...

Olan Monk – Songs for Nothing

Albums
The Galway musician Olan Monk tends to eschew the ethos or idea of recorded music, viewing each such instance as a transience or even a lapse which unduly separates a composition from the flow of lived experience which birthed it. That experience - described on their 2020 album Love/Dead for instance as one of dragging a harmonium down from a...

Moin – You Never End

Albums
'For what it's worth, I guess it's wrecked' intones the Galway songwriter Olan Monk on the opening track of the new Moin album You Never End, and if wrecked sounds like the kind of music you enjoy best then Moin and company will have plenty to offer. Anybody who has ever felt anything thanks to the scoured underbelly and...