OLAN MONK - Songs For Nothing LP Blues Crafted over the course of

Crafted over the course of a year

From the get go Ara Kekedjian was our favorite

with two-colour risograph-printed paste-on wraparound cover and insert

producer Kier-La Janisse (‘House of Psychotic Women’)

OLAN MONK - Songs For Nothing LP Blues Crafted over the course ofSongs 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