Old favs TRM make rare return with new album

This week sees the return to Cork of a revered Irish instrumental rock act with a new album in tow.

The brilliant TRM (formerly The Redneck Manifesto) play Cyprus Avenue this Friday, bringing their sixth album ‘Grushy’ too.

They are celebrating the release of our new album with an Irish tour - which kicks off tonight in Galway with the actual album launch party taking place at The Button Factory in Dublin on Saturday 6 September.

The Irish instrumental band now consists of members Niall Byrne, Richie Egan and Matthew Bolger and will perform their first Irish tour in six years.

In June, they released their first new music in six years, the mellow and delightful song ‘Hidden Hands’. A second single ‘Off The Hook’ was released on 17 August, a song quite different to anything else in the band’s canon.

‘Grushy’ will be released on Dublin record label Ten Spot Records on 10” vinyl and is TRM’s seventh record over their 25 year existence.

After the departure of three members, TRM took time to consider their foundation and future, but the desire to make new music was just too strong for founding members Matthew Bolger, Niall Byrne and Richard Egan. So after productive writing sessions in Dublin and Malmo in Sweden, ‘Grushy’ was born.

Comprising seven songs, ‘Grushy’ finds the band taking their sound to interesting new places. The signature interweaving guitars and melodic bass lines are there but there are now also structural experiments, textural detours and rhythmic tricks that pave the way for new musical territory, something clear on new single ‘Off The Hook’.

The band say the new songs are “a focussed collection of lightness and darkness, connected together by an attention to detail that establishes TRM’s biggest idea–serve the song!”

TRM will be joined on the Irish tour by Dek Hynes and Thor Rasmussen on synth and percussion, and Paul Kenny on drums.