Welcome To Music City

Pre-Order Item. Release Date Subject to Change.
Label: Redundant Span Records
Release Date: 6th February

I love Music City, the project of Conor Lumsden, who you may know from elite power pop pubsmen The Number Ones. Likely the main reason I love it is because it sounds like the immediate Celtic folk as filtered through decades of jangly pop, punk, pub rock and heavy rock that is my regular go-to when I'm having a little stack of vinyl and lager sesh of a weekend evening. If you want something that touches on 'I Want To See The Bright Lights To Tonight', with the cheek of The Undertones, the glam hard rock rippers of Thin Lizzy, some US tangy new wave power pop and a melodic punk spirit ala The Replacements, then I think you may love Music City too.

Ireland's rock legacy runs deep, from Thin Lizzy to The Undertones
Today it's Euro- country queen CMAT, rap rebels Kneecap, and post- punk runners
Fontaines D.C. -- and now Dublin born-London based Music City, adding another bold
chapter to the story with their hook-driven, punk-fired debut Welcome to Music City,
due 6th February 2026 on Redundant Span Records.
The album blends wry storytelling with chiming guitars, stacked harmonies, and
muscular rhythm sections. "I didn't set out with a theme or story arc, but looking back
the album feels like a constant fight between hope and disappointment," shares
songwriter Conor Lumsden (also drummer, singer and songwriter in Dublin favourites
The Number Ones). "It's the peaks and troughs of just trying to get by, in love, against
the outside forces, or the ones inside your own head." New single "Common Sense" is
a swaggering, hook- laden anthem featuring Tina Halladay of Sheer Mag, delivered
with the passion of a 12-year-old playing guitar in the mirror.
Music City have toured with Sheer Mag and Parquet Courts, and recently returned
from Spain and Italy supporting The Lemon Twigs. Put those names together and
you'll start to hear where Music City are coming from...