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CLOUD CASTLE LAKE A WOLF LIKE HOWLING

Dublin trio Cloud Castle Lake put themselves on the map with their genre-bending roller-coaster ride of a debut 'Sync', which garnered acclaim from the likes of Stereogum and Pitchfork, amongst others. The trio of Daniel McAuley, Brendan Jenkinson and Rory O'Connor build sprawling electronic compositions out of seemingly sparing instruments, a noodled guitar here, a folksy choral part there; only McAuley's shimmering falsetto remains a constant thread through their softly-meandering songs.

Clocking in at almost seven minutes long, 'A Wolf Like Howling' is their own 'Champagne Supernova', their 'Blue Monday' - 'The Sprawl', in every sense of the word. There's a definite whiff of Muse's guitar solo bombastics at times, but it's essentially how Sigur Rós might sound if their roots lay in Irish watercolour-folk songs, rather than glacial Scandi brood-pop - a tangled bed of untuned percussion, peppered with urgent bass bops and gossamer keys that unspool like the rolling green hills of their native land. Sublime.

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