Featuring a chorus of six flugelhorns, ‘Summer's Song’was written and produced by Conor O’Brien and mixed by the legendary Dave Fridmann (Tame Impala, Flaming Lips, MGMT).  In Conor’s words: “‘Summer's Song’ is the closest I'll ever get to writing a pure pop song. I just had to roll with it and I'm glad I did; it was really just an excuse to make the horns sound like sunbeams. Boy it's fun to play live. I can't quite believe we managed to get the magical touch of Dave Fridmann in on the mix”.

The video - animated by Joe May and illustrated by Patricio Bauzá - is equally drenched with memories of summers past and anticipation of those to come.

Fresh from supporting Mumford & Sons on their recent UK arena tour, Villagers will be playing shows throughout the summer including a sold-out gig at Dublin’s glorious Iveagh Gardens (his biggest ever headline).  A European tour including Paradiso, Amsterdam and the Rolling Stone Weekenders in Germany have also been announced for November.

Villagers Live Dates

Fri 12th July – Iveagh Gardens, Dublin

Thurs 18th July – Galway Arts Festival, Galway

Fri 19th July – Cyprus Avenue, Cork

Sat 20th July – Ballykeeffee Amphitheatre, Kilkenny

Thurs 15th Aug – Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh

Fri 16th Aug – Green Man Festival, Abergavenny, Wales

Fri 23rd Aug – Open House Festival, Bangor

Oh Sees have shared the video for their new track ‘Poisoned Stones’. Last month the band announced a new double LP titled Face Stabber, out August 16 via Castle Face Records. The band will also play London this Autumn. In a typically idiosyncratic statement, the band said;

“ Hey there, human kids,

Lift your face out of the feed trough and pluck that feculence from your ears. Hark! A sonar blip from beneath the pile of bodies.  Boop, blip ughhh….

People churning like a boiling swamp. Man, this din is nauseating.

The screen flickers for the first time this year with a transmission from two months in the future:

“the internet has deemed guitar music dead and you are free to do whatever the fuck you like ….long live the new flesh!”

This album is Soundcloud hip-hop reversed, a far flung nemesis of contemporary country and flaccid algorithmic pop-barf.

No songs about money or love are floating in the ether.

Just memories, echoes, foggy blurs

Blip-blop goes the scope

Heavy funk

Dystopia-punk canons

Lonnnnng jams

Bloated solos dribbling down your caved-in chest.

Human cattle like a beef avalanche, right on your burned out face hole.

Spider legs fuzz crawling in your brain.

Lots of curse words for your mom.

You’ve gotten the over-population blues, so let’s have some art for art’s sake.

What else are you gonna do?

Stare at the sky? Please…

50 carbon copies of you look back at you as you walk the streets.

Take a breath, you’re going to need it.

Take drugs, you’re going to need those just to stand in line at the air and water reclamation center soon enough.

There’s no fruit, buddy.

You’re at the bleak-peak.

They will squeeze you till you’re all squeezed out.

For fans of fried prog burn out, squished old-school drool, double drums, lead weight bass, wizard keys (now with poison), old-ass guitar and horrible words with daft meanings.

If you don’t like it then don’t listen, bub.

Back to the comments section with you!

Easy

Over and out”

Tour Dates:

September 6 London Troxy