‘If 50% of people are disgusted by our music, we did a good job’

Ask anyone successful the euphony industry, determination is simply a superior drought erstwhile it comes to caller bands astatine the moment.

Of course, bands exist but they look to beryllium staying acold from the charts and struggling to find immoderate mainstream success against the wide of 90s reunions and popular divas.

Kneecap and Fontaines D.C. are the fortunate fewer who person established themselves successful the look of nostalgia-drenched lineups but they aren’t the lone Irish groups making waves; conscionable Bricknasty.

Hailing from Ballymun, Dublin, Bricknasty’s recently released mixtape ‘XONGZ አስቀያሚ ጡብ’ boasts a unsocial blend of influences from jazz to R&B and hep hop.

They’ve been steadily increasing successful popularity aft opening for Coldplay on circuit but frontman Fatboy confesses that caller artists are ‘struggling’ to support up with established bands.

‘They are struggling to play their instruments,’ helium coolly tells Metro up of their archetypal UK tour, which kicks disconnected successful Brighton connected November 24.

Fatboy continues: ‘They are struggling to usage the astir exertion that’s ever been publically available, ever to marque thing that is beauteous cool.

‘If the older lads privation to travel backmost and f**king rotation the artifact again, fto them like. We should person got busier.’

Bricknasty was co-founded by Fatboy, who hides his identity, and Cillian McCauley aft they met done Soundcloud during lockdown.

The duo recorded tracks unneurotic earlier recruiting Dara Abdurahman connected bass, Korey Thomas connected drums, and Louis Younge who plays saxophone and keyboard.

Producer Cillian had a likewise cutting presumption of their competition, stating: ‘If newer artists were amended and if caller euphony was better, that wouldn’t beryllium an issue.’

While Fatboy declares ‘facts’, Dara gives a much considered attack and shares: ‘As things person go easier to prime up and conscionable do, the prime has dropped.

‘I besides deliberation that’s a bully happening successful immoderate ways, that it’s easier to get up and get started connected that stuff, but yeah, a deeper enactment with it would possibly bash america good.’

Fatboy, who besides plays the guitar, dismisses modern euphony arsenic ‘disposable’ arsenic helium vents astir an ‘epidemic’ of radical who are successful it simply to go famous.

The accessibility of creating euphony done exertion has sparked what Bricknasty spot arsenic a small effort oregon thought being enactment into what’s being shared.

‘The obstruction for introduction is truthful debased now,’ Cillian says. ‘People are conscionable locking themselves successful a country and doing it by themselves and that’s fine, that is besides good.

‘But what you person successful a set oregon a corporate format is you’re moving with the radical that you deliberation are people and you’re getting the champion bits of them and the champion bits of yourself and it’s a collaborative thing. People are benignant of shying distant from that present and locking themselves away.’

Fatboy interjects: ‘Everybody wants to beryllium the coolest fella. “I deterioration the coolest jeans and they’re gonna constitute my sanction — the sanction connected my passport — connected the large poster. I privation my passport sanction connected the large poster and everyone to springiness maine kisses.

‘There’s nary fella successful the backmost of the people trying to acceptable the array connected fire, and determination needs to be.’

Exasperated, helium pleads for radical to ‘pick the f**king guitar up’ and commencement making euphony a much old-school way.

‘Musically oregon adjacent aesthetically, it each conscionable feels similar a batch of the worldly coming retired feels filler, feels fluff,’ Cillian surmises.

While the complaints could travel disconnected arsenic egotistical, their vexation is intelligibly coming from the information Bricknasty cares profoundly astir euphony arsenic an creation form.

‘There’s not overmuch other successful Ireland that’s truly trying to execute the aforesaid happening that we’re trying to bash precisely astatine the minute,’ Dara adds.

The radical splits their unrecorded and recorded sounds into chiseled versions, aiming to marque each a ‘unique’ acquisition that is chiseled from the other.

‘I conjecture that’s what makes america a small different,’ helium says. ‘Just trying to marque bully worldly each the clip is the point, though.’

Their visuals are designed to marque you consciousness ‘disgusted’ portion the jazz dependable is ‘objectively beautiful’ – it doesn’t substance however you respond to them, astatine slightest you’re feeling something.

Fatboy agrees, explaining they are aiming to marque thing wherever ‘50% of radical are disgusted and 50% of radical are elated’.

This chiseled imaginativeness could beryllium linked to Fatboy’s upbringing successful Ballymun, an property successful Dublin famed for high-rise flats and a beardown community.

‘It was a really, truly unsocial acquisition to get and it was a precise soulful upbringing,’ helium recalled. ‘Ireland is being torn into small America, truthful a soulful upbringing is going to go astir intolerable to get, astatine slightest successful Dublin.

‘As globalization continues connected and you commencement to spot everything go homogenized and flattened out, you’re going to spot that [creativity] little and little and less.

‘I’m very, precise blessed and fortunate that for the past fewer years of the flats, I got to turn up determination and larn lessons astir loyalty and prosecute successful that assemblage that’s been destroyed now. That’s each being stomped out.’

Ballymun underwent an municipality readying overhaul opening successful 1997, which locals — including Fatboy — believes has eroded the assemblage spirit.

Fatboy shared: ‘While I’m here, I’m going to sing and physique crap that comes from that spot that has that acceptable of testicles upon it, and hopefully, it resonates with people.’

Bricknasty’s mixtape XONGZ አስቀያሚ ጡብ is retired present and tickets are connected merchantability for their UK tour.

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