Madra Salach announce debut album ‘Gorta’ with ominous single ‘Ribbon Factory’

Madra Salach have announced their debut album ‘Gorta’, and dropped the looming new single ‘Ribbon Factory’. Check it out below. READ MORE: Madra Salach are remoulding traditional Irish folk to their own blistering tune The record is the first full album from the rising Dublin six-piece, following the release of their debut EP ‘It’s A Hell Of An Age’. It is set for release on January 15 via Island Records, and you can visit here to pre-order. Produced by Loren Humphrey (Westside Cowboy, Cameron Winter) in New York, ‘Gorta’ takes its title from the Irish word for “hunger” and sees the band continue to pay homage to Irish traditional music, but also push their sound into more experimental, darker territories. Like the title suggests, the record will explore the types of hunger we all face – including the urge to revisit what we left behind, and the inheritance we carry from the generations before us. “I usually write from personal experience,” said frontman Paul Banks. “I try not to go too big-picture. I can tap into the emotions that way.” “The ideas of longing and yearning, all the kinds of hunger, they slot into where we are as 21st century Irish people,” he added. “The more I’ve t...