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Róis: Mo Léan review | Jude Rogers' folk album of the month
Singer Rose Connolly expands the pre-Christian Irish grieving tradition with synthesisers, distortion and drone in an arresting set
The artwork for Mo LéanIn the Connemara vernacular, the title means “woe is me” or even “FFS”; five long tracks are shaped around striking interludes, including the tolling bells heard before the Irish 6pm news and a darkly funny radio announcement apologising for the lack of death notices that day. Their musicianship and mixtures of tunes are undoubtedly impressive (especially in the one-track forging-together of Kissing’s Nae Sin, Newcastle and Portsmouth) yet the boldly theatrical execution can feel self-regarding. Throat, the eponymous album by the Coral’s Nick Power and soundtrack composer Mark McKowski(Deltasonic) is full of gorgeous original folk curios written to evoke “lost” songs and pulsing weirdness.
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