COLORSxSTUDIOS have today shared their collaboration with Belfast trio KNEECAP.
Performing their most recent single, ‘Smugglers & Scholars’ as part of the regular COLORS SHOWS, this is the first time an Irish language artist has appeared on the Berlin based music performance platform.
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Talking about this performance, Kneecap said:
“We are honoured that this is the first time to have the Irish language on COLORS. It’s something we’ve wanted to do for a few years, and we now have one as our video for ‘Smugglers and Scholars’. Hope yis all enjoy it.The popularity of both their music and 2024 self-titled film has sparked a renewed interest in the Irish language, particularly amongst the young people of Ireland. This phenomenon, often described as ‘The Kneecap effect’, has made the language relevant to a younger generation, moving it beyond a traditional academic context.”
The popularity of both their music and 2024 self-titled film has sparked a renewed interest in the Irish language, particularly amongst the young people of Ireland. This phenomenon, often described as ‘The Kneecap effect’, has made the language relevant to a younger generation, moving it beyond a traditional academic context.
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The single ‘Smugglers & Scholars’ premiered in late February on Zane Lowe’s Apple 1 Music Show, smashes open the doors of the album. Coming in on a low end three note bass riff that sounds like it’s lifted from the kind of Detroit hip hop record the band would have grown up listening to. It finds the band creating their own unique electricity over a steel heavy pulse.
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A blistering album that revels in darkness while bursting through the void with illuminated revery. This is FENIAN.
Produced by Dan Carey (Fontaines D.C., Kae Tempest, Wet Leg), FENIAN upends expectations with an expansive sonic palate, traversing acid house, trip-hop, dubstep, and more – Masters of rave and rap theatre, FENIAN represents Kneecap’s most sophisticated exploration of language and sounds.
More darkness. More confrontation. More craic. More energy. More solidarity. More absolute bangers. And more fuel for the unrelenting engine that powers this unstoppable force. For their remarkable second album, Kneecap have come out fighting.
Throughout, the sirens and alarms ring, and the chorus’s blast. Revolutionary and rebellious, confrontational and impossibly catchy, inescapably intelligent and brilliantly rendered, FENIAN doesn’t just represent the next phase in Kneecap’s trajectory but stands as a remarkable record that thrills as much as it surprises. The mayhem of their breakout year is a memory now. But Kneecap are neither dwelling on that nor merely persevering through it. In FENIAN they excel, reaching a new peak that is undeniable in its mastery.
Pressure makes diamonds, and FENIAN glistens with Kneecap’s uncut gems.
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