Favourite Irish music artist to emerge in 2010s?

its_steve116

Who is top of the Irish pops for you this decade? And why?
If your favourite is missing you can specify in the comments.

Atoms for Peace

Wanted to vote for little green cars but Hozier probably the biggest international act with a very unique sound. The rest are mostly interchangeable pop mush.

EmmetSpiceland

None of the above.

Arghus

I vote for Unyielding Love -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgNw3V_X2rI

Fr_Dougal

Taylor Swift

rainbowdrop

King Kong Company!!

Rothko

Their first album was released in 2009 but I would have picked And So I Watch You From Afar.

Deebles McBeebles

I realised after reading the list of bands that this is not the question for me. Don't even know who half of them are tbh.

Birneybau

Villagers miles out in front. McMorrow and All Tvvins close behind.

The rest are rubbish with particular hatred towards Le Galaxie who are just a bunch of band wagon jumping pricks.

Birneybau

Villagers miles out in front. McMorrow and All Tvvins close behind. Actually, Soak is decent.

The rest are rubbish with particular hatred towards Le Galaxie who are just a bunch of band wagon jumping pricks.

discobeaker

That's a pretty bleak list of acts to chose from in the pole.

its_steve116

discobeaker wrote: »

That's a pretty bleak list of acts to chose from in the pole.

Well I went for the big ones, but you can give honourable mentions to the ones I didn't list.

Bobblehats

These charming young djents impressed me when somebody posted this on here some years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgCAq9hAhtE

Great technique and seemed accessible enough, for it to be a hit but I don’t know whatever floats peoples boat. They dressed up nice and all!

sk8erboii

https://youtu.be/bix7yNI3VV0

Very technically skilled musicians. Went to school with the drummer and guitarist

franglan

Dermot Kennedy for me.

Arghus

I thought Girl Band were a cut above most Irish acts -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4SmyqO5DUU

These lads blew me away when I went to see them a few weeks ago. Unbelievable energy -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcEIoDxzHg4

Abel Ruiz

Villagers

WesternZulu

Fontaines D.C. are by far the best Irish band to emerge in the last few years.
They're playing Jimmy Fallon show tonight which shows they're gaining recognition.

Rothko

Fang Club are another good band.

its_steve116

WesternZulu wrote: »

Fontaines D.C. are by far the best Irish band to emerge in the last few years.
They're playing Jimmy Fallon show tonight which shows they're gaining recognition.

Their album was #9 in the UK.

WesternZulu

its_steve116 wrote: »

Their album was #9 in the UK.

And yet you'll never hear them on daytime radio.

Quite bizarre considering commercial radio's constant promotion of Picture This who's new album could only peak at #54 in the UK.

its_steve116

Arghus wrote: »

I thought Girl Band were a cut above most Irish acts -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4SmyqO5DUU

These lads blew me away when I went to see them a few weeks ago. Unbelievable energy -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcEIoDxzHg4

Apparently Fontaines DC cited Girl Band as a big influence.

For Forks Sake

WesternZulu wrote: »

Fontaines D.C. are by far the best Irish band to emerge in the last few years.
They're playing Jimmy Fallon show tonight which shows they're gaining recognition.

I'm not getting all they hype around them tbh, they're Sleaford Mods with howiya accents, and that's not a good thing. I supposed compared to the list of generic dross in the poll, they may as well be the Sex Pistols in comparison.

Morrison J

They are way more catchy and tuneful than Sleaford Mods. Don't get that comparison tbh.

Gaining some amount of momentum. Fair play to them. Good to see an Irish band make it big that's not dross like The Script, Picture This or The Coronas. Long overdue.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Villagers or Girl Band for me, of the ones on the list there the only one I'd rate is SOAK.

I'm a recent but enthusiastic convert to Kojaque as well.

If anyone wants some eloquent, funny and slightly deranged rants about the mainstream Irish music industry and it's blandness and cliqueyness follow Postpunk Podge and the Technohippies on social media, he lets loose a few times a week.

its_steve116

Morrison J wrote: »

They are way more catchy and tuneful than Sleaford Mods. Don't get that comparison tbh.

Gaining some amount of momentum. Fair play to them. Good to see an Irish band make it big that's not dross like The Script, Picture This or The Coronas. Long overdue.

I didn't include the Coronas or the Script because they emerged in 2006 and 2008 respectively.

showpony1

Chasing Abbey or Wild Youth

jiltloop

Katie Kim has really impressed me especially her last album "Salt", beautiful stuff!

Another new comer who has been taking bloody ages to get stuff out there (only just released an EP, I originally saw her live in Sligo back in 2015) is Maria Somerville who is very talented and someone I'll be keeping a close eye on.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

jiltloop wrote: »

Katie Kim has really impressed me especially her last album "Salt", beautiful stuff!

Another new comer who has been taking bloody ages to get stuff out there (only just released an EP, I originally saw her live in Sligo back in 2015) is Maria Somerville who is very talented and someone I'll be keeping a close eye on.

Holy fcuk how'd I forget Katie!

Patrick Kelleher was great too for the roughly 11 days he was around, think it was early 2010s.

Fusitive

I really like Hip-Neck blues Collective. Underrated in my opinion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMUbZZifSfA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XakSK-h1N58

SexBobomb

https://youtu.be/trMhSw5xcp4

Some decent bands around at the minute in fairness, saw Silverbacks a few times in Whelans, really like their sound.

its_steve116

jiltloop wrote: »

Katie Kim has really impressed me especially her last album "Salt", beautiful stuff!

Another new comer who has been taking bloody ages to get stuff out there (only just released an EP, I originally saw her live in Sligo back in 2015) is Maria Somerville who is very talented and someone I'll be keeping a close eye on.

There's Maria Kelly as well, from Mayo.
Gave "Eyes Don't See It" a listen, nice and sparse.

its_steve116

its_steve116 wrote: »

There's Maria Kelly as well, from Mayo.
Gave "Eyes Don't See It" a listen, nice and sparse.

Another Sligo band I really did is these guys. Rack what?...

its_steve116

its_steve116 wrote: »

There's Maria Kelly as well, from Mayo.
Gave "Eyes Don't See It" a listen, nice and sparse.

Another Sligo band I really dig is these guys. Rack what?...

Hamsterchops

I've heard of Hozier ........

coffeepls

I voted two door cinema club because they were sooo good when they started out, still love the first album a lot. But after that they... well....hmmm... not so great in my opinion, to be polite.
Sorry I don’t know a few of the others, the academic would be my second choice.

Villagers or Little Green Cars for me, from that list. Was sad to see Little Green Cars split up recently, hope they'll get back together in future.
Quite like Hozier and Soak as well.
Also not on the list but I like Dublin band Sleep Thieves and Cork band Young Wonder, though they latter seems to have disappeared after just one album a few years ago.

Of the rest:
I know one song by Dermot Kennedy that was alright but didn't really inspire me to listen to more. Ditto for Walking on Cars.
Picture This, Kodaline, Gavin James, Le Galaxie and The Academic don't do much for me.
I can respect James Vincent McMurrow but I'm really not a fan of his voice.
Haven't really listened to the others.

Autosport

I voted for Walking on cars but I also like Wild Youth Hozier just annoys me

IAMAMORON

I can't believe no one mentioned the Rubberbandits ? I'm not even from Limerick and I reckon their great.

dd973

The way that Hozier babbles on in that church song you'd think he was born illegitimate and dumped in an industrial school at birth, another privileged South Dublin/Wicklow bellend a la Geldof.

His biggest stress growing up was deciding which ski resort to go to.

Birneybau

dd973 wrote: »

The way that Hozier babbles on in that church song you'd think he was born illegitimate and dumped in an industrial school at birth, another privileged South Dublin/Wicklow bellend a la Geldof.

His biggest stress growing up was deciding which ski resort to go to.

He's never heard of a good cause he couldn't milk

SEPT 23 1989

That voting list is like a wall of musical shame

SEPT 23 1989

dd973 wrote: »

The way that Hozier babbles on in that church song you'd think he was born illegitimate and dumped in an industrial school at birth, another privileged South Dublin/Wicklow bellend a la Geldof.

His biggest stress growing up was deciding which ski resort to go to.

That's the problem you need to be literally hungry to make good art

Your life depends on it

All these acts now you can just hear the comfortable safety net behind them in their whinging lyrics

They have nothing to say

PeteEd

WesternZulu wrote: »

And yet you'll never hear them on daytime radio.

Quite bizarre considering commercial radio's constant promotion of Picture This who's new album could only peak at #54 in the UK.

BBC6 Music, can hardly get away from the fookers at the minute

I vote Nathan Carter by the way

mistersifter

Fontaines DC sounding good...

WinnyThePoo

Simple kid. What a man.

mistersifter

The Altered Hours another good band from Cork..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd-NuEw98Gc


That list could be better in fairness!

WinnyThePoo

mistersifter wrote: »

The Altered Hours another good band from Cork..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd-NuEw98Gc


That list could be better in fairness!

I got to see them live. Great band.

fiveleavesleft

Haven't listened to much Irish stuff sadly.

Good Stuff: Solar Bears, Katie Kim, Cubs, The Gloaming, Fontaines DC, The Would Be's comeback but my fav is Hannah Peel & all the wonderful stuff she's popped up on.

Terrible stuff: Hozier, Vincent James Mcmorrow, Kodaline, Picture This.

The sound of this decade though for most Irish people was Nathan Carter, Avicii & Ed Shearan which cocks a snook at the silly notion of how liberal & trendy we are now.

its_steve116

WinnyThePoo wrote: »

Simple kid. What a man.

He emerged in the 00s. This thread is about acts who emerged in the 10s.

its_steve116

mistersifter wrote: »

The Altered Hours another good band from Cork..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd-NuEw98Gc


That list could be better in fairness!

"Sweet Jelly Roll" is a tune.

I went for the ones I thought were the most widely known. Artists who became well known before 2010, such as The Coronas or the Script, were not eligible. Some of these acts (e.g. Villagers) released singles in the late 00s, but didn't get signed/release an album until the 10s.