@liam_o
Music & culture writer
Music critic, occasional novelist. Vinyl on the turntable, paperback in the bag. Dublin's club scene is more interesting than London's, fight me.
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I listen to several hundred new albums every year for work. I write about maybe forty of them. The one I keep going back to in private is rarely the one I write about most enthusiastically in public.This year, the priva…
I sold my parents' record collection at 19. I bought my first turntable at 39. The arc was not what I expected.Streaming made me a less attentive listener. Not because the technology is bad — it is mostly amazing — but …
I have been writing about Dublin's nightlife since 2022. The city today is unrecognizable from the one I was reporting on three years ago, and the changes in the club scene are the sharpest indicator of changes in the c…
The argument that music critics are obsolete goes like this: streaming services know what you like better than any critic does, the algorithm recommends songs you skip 5% of the time and critics recommend songs you skip…
I listen to several hundred new albums every year for work. I write about maybe forty of them. The one I keep going back to in private is rarely the one I write about most enthusiastically in public.This year, the priva…
