Fontaines D.C. drummer launches Inis Records, a new label dedicated to Irish music

The venture is designed as a standalone infrastructure for Irish artists and labels, combining a shop that will stock only Irish records with a label arm set to reissue out-of-print landmarks, release new music, and provide distribution and backend services for selected small independents. Coll, Roe (Adebisi Shank, Richter Collective) and Allen (Faction Records) are positioning Inis - - the Irish word for island or isle - as a response to a longstanding gap. “Inis Records is about providing an independent label infrastructure in Ireland, giving Irish music a platform to grow, and create unique physical music for Irish artists,” Coll said in a press statement. “We want to create truly special vinyl runs, reissue some older gems, and support the next wave of Irish music. Ireland needs a stronger independent music infrastructure and our goal with Inis is to achieve that.” The store will carry Irish music across every era and genre, while the label’s first pre-order offering is a reissue of Against Nature, the out-of-print 1989 album by cult art-rock group Fatima Mansions. Later in the year, Inis will release a traditional music compilation assembled by Coll, a showband compilation cur...