Gorta

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Label: Island
Release Date: 15th January 2027

The current wave of great Irish Folk continues with it's faithful to the artform and message but reinventive in sound and delivery with Dublin's Madra Salach's debut album 'Gorta'. You can really feel the weight of angst, passion and strife in their music, could be one of the debut albums of 2027.

Dublin six-piece Madra Salach announce their debut album Gorta, set for release January 15th via Island Records. 

Named after the Irish word for “hunger”, Gorta is an album about inheritance: what we carry from the generations before us, what we leave behind, and the many forms that hunger can take.

The sleeve of the album, created by Oscar Torrans, holds all of that in a single figure: a Blemmyes, one of the akephaloi of ancient legend, the headless ones whose faces sat in their chests.

Produced by Loren Humphrey in New York — whose recent credits include Geese and Cameron Winter — Gorta moves between moments of stark intimacy and full-band eruptions.

TRACKLISTING

1. Hunger
2. Ribbon Factory
3. Tunnel Tigers
4. Searrach
5. The Stolen Sheep
6. Bolg
7. She Talks to the Telly 
8. Cranes
9. Circus Horse
10. The Haunted Isle of Green