OLAN MONK - Songs For Nothing LP Blues With The Reds

With The Reds

producer Kier-La Janisse (‘House of Psychotic Women’)

Lazy Magnet wrings hands and nods heads—born from the soil is elegant rays

and serve as an extra layer of mystery to the already suggestive body of work

with two-colour risograph-printed paste-on wraparound cover and insert

OLAN MONK - Songs For Nothing LP Blues With The RedsSongs for Nothing was written upon Olan Monks return to the west coast of Ireland. The album is imbued with the influence of sean ns singing, Irish language songs in the old style that often proclaim tales of love, loss and landscape; and also heavily indebted to the late Sinad OConnors confessional songwriting. Reconstructing these influences through their unique perspective has resulted in a fragmentary album veering between collaged pop, machinic