If folk music holds storytelling and orality at its core, Pebbledash mine those treasures in their latest single ‘Cartography’. Coming in the cool wake of ‘Asha’s Waltz’, ‘Cartography’ builds on the band’s mythology and cements them as one to keep your eyes peeled on.
The Cork-based four-piece are back with a new track that builds sounds on top of one another like seams of sediment in the earth. Layers of gauzy indie rock give way to each other, cresting and breaking as waves upon the shore. Borne onward by singer Fionnbharr Hickey’s gentle vocals, there’s a forward movement throughout the entire song that forces the gaze forward. Although the song is ostensibly about anxiety, sonically it’s more freeing than suffocating. Hickey’s vocals pair beautifully with co-vocalist Asha Egan McCutcheon’s, the two providing shades which melt into one another, oscillating between being both unhurried and urgent.
Making a name for themselves as a dynamic live act, too, Pebbledash have a stretch of live dates ahead of them in 2025, including seven nights on the So Young tour in September. With a catalogue that contains notes of shoegaze, folk, rock, and a host of other sounds, you’ll be straining to pick out the different tastes welded into their music.
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