OLAN MONK - Songs For Nothing LP Techno What can we hear on

What can we hear on this record

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OLAN MONK - Songs For Nothing LP Techno What can we hear onSongs 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