WITH the majority of the country sunning themselves in the embers of the summer holidays in a council field somewhere this week, Ireland’s artists have made sure that there's plenty of new music to add to the playlists. Rather than get bogged down in festival lines-ups this week, Northern Winds curates your perfect end-of-summer playlist with new records and tracks from some of the best independent homegrown artists that we have on the scene. ROE: Cut My TeethThe newest single from her debut album due out this September, Derry’s ROE has been introspective on her last few records. This track follows the formula but adds a new twist, with beautiful string arrangements paired with a raw vocal/piano performance. Always a songwriter who could make the personal universal, ROE’s latest has some throwback elements to the ballad dominance of pop in the mid-2000s and is the strongest yet from her burgeoning album campaign.
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