Ivor Novello Rising nominated, Athens-based Dublin artist lullahush (aka Daniel McIntyre) articulates a unique perspective on modern Irish identity by creating a holistic marriage of traditional folk and electronic music. His sound is playful and lilting, with a touch of twee, yet remains hearty and rich in substance.
He achieves this through deconstructed techno takes on keening (a funeral singing tradition), bodhrán-driven breakbeats, Berghain-weighted bass drops over folk staples like ‘The Rare Auld Mountain Dew’, and maritime songs reimagined as garage workouts.
His latest single, ‘Maggie na bhFlaitheas’ (‘Maggie Of The Heavens’), takes the reel - a staple of Celtic social dance - and warps it into something unclassifiable: neither folk in an electronic context nor electronica through a folk filter, but a self-sustaining hybrid of both.
Accompanied by a breakneck visual collage of rural Ireland, religious iconography, raucous house parties, and the ever-present coastline, the track pulses with the friction of past and present, natural and synthetic.
His new album ‘Ithaca’ will drop in April.
🎧 Watch the video for ‘Maggie na bhFlaitheas’ below