It’s quite the challenge to characterize the feeling of missing home and losing touch with the people associated with it. “Luster,” Maria Somerville’s sophomore album, charmingly works to put words ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. And sometimes, these environments manifest more literally: cooing songbirds and crashing waves ease into the instrumental opener, ...

Irish artist Maria Somerville released Luster last week which is her first album for 4AD. For fans of the label’s mid-’80s to mid-’90s imperial era, Luster fits in perfectly alongside classics by ...

Every Friday, The FADER's writers dive into the most exciting new projects released that week. Today, read our thoughts on Maria Somerville's Luster, Nazar's Demilitarize, and more. Beach Bunny: ...

The second album, then, by the Connemara-born Maria Somerville affirms her Irish origin (the track "Corrib" is named after another lough, one located in Connemara). In contrast, Luster cleaves ...

Ever venture as far west as Connemara and you’ll understand why the area is a time-old pull for artists. Yeats honeymooned there. Oscar Wilde’s father kept a summer house on the shores of Lough Corrib ...

Irish musician Maria Somerville has announced details of her forthcoming second album, Luster, alongside the release of the album's latest single, "Garden". Last year, Maria Somerville introduced ...

Irish singer-songwriter Maria Somerville's sophomore album reviews itself more succinctly in its one-word title, Luster, than I could ever aspire to. Its smothering, billowy textures feel absolutely ...

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Shoegaze and dream-pop, two closely related genres that took hold in the 1980s and ’90s, have formed an especially strong connection with younger listeners in this decade. Debates about the precise ...