Clash magazine premieres “This man cries” from our upcoming new Album “Madness is the Mercy”
New Album will be out on September 9th.
Read the article here:
Clash magazine premieres “This man cries” from our upcoming new Album “Madness is the Mercy”
New Album will be out on September 9th.
Read the article here:
Our new album “Madness is the Mercy” will be released on September 9th on FIFA Records.
Three live tracks on the Paul Mcloone show on Today FM.
When we were in Ireland touring recently we had the pleasure of recording a 3 track live session for The Paul McLoone Show – Today FM, tune in to Today FM tomorrow Wednesday from 9pm to hear it!! A big thanks to Paul & Kate for having us back again.
XSNoise unveils our new track from our upcoming new Album.
The album features a selection of top quality psychedelic chamber-pop tracks with strange brass, haunting beautiful piano, and a vocal that has been described as ” possibly the most evocative, even beautiful, Irish singing voice ever recorded”
Ken Griffin and pianist John Rauchenberger have met in the middle of differing musical pasts to form a band who would sit easily at the same table as Scott Walker or John Cale.
We are just back from a wonderful six week tour of England and Ireland.
Thank you Mother Ireland, I was hypnotized by your fields and hills and mountains, lifted by your painted skies, by the people I was overjoyed, with my family and friends I laughed and cried, the songs were beats in rooms like hearts, until the next lovely time, when it will all again accidentally rhyme.
Stay tuned for the new August Wells album ‘Madness Is the Mercy’ to be released June 24th on Forever In Financial Arrears ( FIFA Records )
We recently recorded a track for the album ‘Rising Against Homelessness’ a new album to Fight Homelessness, It includes covers of classics like ‘The Foggy Dew’, ‘The Auld Triangle’, and our take on ‘The Night Visiting Song’, Glen Hansard, Sinead O’Connor, Mundy , The Chieftains, The Waterboys, Camille O’Sullivan and many more have contributed tracks.The initiative has thus far raised €35,000, and aims to raise €1 million. It has just been released and you pick up a CD in record shops and Starbucks outlets around Ireland for just €10 or if you want your music in digital form, you can also find it on iTunes.
What you need to know about August Wells in 4 easy points, compliments of broadsheet.ie ,cheers guys!!
read it here — broadsheet.ie
“With their critically acclaimed debut album ‘A Living & A Dying Game’ and a string of fine singles already under their belts 2016 is shaping to be another busy year for August Wells. April will see the bands sumptuous single ‘Here in the Wild’ get its official UK release. A thoughtful, piano and string-drenched track that bears the wistful hallmarks of songwriters whose place in a weary world is tempered by the acceptance of some of its fateful twists”…
Read it here – exposedvocals.com
Exciting new musical project August Wells – Dublin’s Ken Griffin (ex-Rollerskate Skinny, Favourite Sons) and New York pianist John Rauchenberger – share new single ‘Here in the Wild’, out in the UK on April 22nd via FIFA Records.
The solidly luscious tune, gets our full attention from the start, graced by Griffin’s poetic, timelessly emotive and stirring voice.
See full article here