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Cormac OConnell

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I am a writer, video editor and normcore entity living in London. My personal blog/website is at: www.patrish.co.uk. Yes, I did steal the name from the now defunct facebook group. I am world's biggest Joanna Newsom stan, and I am also the kind of person to tell you Sparks is the best band no one's listened to.
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EP Review: Tall Child innovates London’s indie pop formula on debut ‘Somehow you Grow’.

  • July 30, 2025
  • Cormac OConnell
Tall Child is the pseudonym of South-East London based songwriter Zha Ghandi, whose music and talent I’ve been aware of for a long time. They are a permanent fixture of…
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EP Review: ‘Is It Really Goodnight?’: Celeste Madden’s Introspective and Evocative New Release

  • April 5, 2025
  • Cormac OConnell
Key to London-based singer-songwriter Celeste Madden’s new EP, Is It Really Goodnight?, is its dense atmosphere. It’s not foreboding or oppressive, but rather a sleepless sheen that coats the tracklist…
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Live Review: Darkwave alt-pop sensation – Artemas at the O2 Forum Kentish Town 11.11.24

  • November 15, 2024
  • Cormac OConnell
I principally believe we are living in a post “one-hit-wonder” era where pop music is concerned, mostly owing to the space the online world has given artists. You can have…
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Album Review: Kitty Fitz’s moving alt-pop statement: ‘The Man in Me’.

  • November 6, 2024
  • Cormac OConnell
South East London-based songwriter: Kitty Fitz‘s music is on-paper, very consistent with what a good chunk of British indie music is now: DIY offshoots of bedroom pop that are lyrically…
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Live Review: Kitty Fitz – Third Man Records, London 25.7.2024

  • July 30, 2024
  • Cormac OConnell
Third Man Records’ Blue Basement simulates what it would be like if you crossed a TED-talk stage with a laserquest. There’s a big yellow Smeg fridge with the word Literarium…
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EP Review: London duo Nudista’s raw new vision on ‘Nothing Makes Sense Until It Does’

  • May 30, 2024
  • Cormac OConnell
London based duo: Nudista are back on form with their newest EP since the lockdown-recorded folk rock outing: Halfway Here. When I reviewed that record, I was struck by the…
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NYC trio: Trinket coalesces new shades of jangle-pop dreaminess on debut EP ‘New Hobby’

  • March 5, 2024
  • Cormac OConnell
Trinket are a fresh new entry into the increasingly growing stir of jangle-pop bands. With their previous singles fusing shimmering, sweet guitar riffs and featherlight dream pop sensibilities well enough…
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Album Review: Reciprocate’s explosive and extraordinary performance on ‘Soul to Burn’.

  • December 21, 2023
  • Cormac OConnell
New from London noise-rock trio Reciprocate, is a record that seems inspired by the sounds of all popular noise rock of the last 25 years. From the on-the-nose heavy riffs…
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Symbol Soup release dreamy, lush and poetic new album: ‘Slow Puncture’.

  • August 4, 2023
  • Cormac OConnell
Symbol Soup is the indie-folk project of musician Michael Rea, and their new record: Slow Puncture is an album that can be linked to a lot of buzzwords that are…
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Track: The Last Dinner Party’s hotly awaited debut single ‘Nothing Matters’

  • April 19, 2023
  • Cormac OConnell
There have been few bands coming out of London that have coalesced as much interest so instantly in the way that The Last Dinner Party has. It’s been just over…
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