I Have A Tribe - Beneath A Yellow Moon (2016)

Produced by Paul Savage (Mogwai, Twilight Sad, Dry The River etc) and recorded in Glasgow, the album's eleven tracks are perhaps the most sparse and understated collection of songs that IHAT has released to date. Where previous EPs, including O'Laighaire's collaboration with Villagers' Conor O'Brien on 2014's 'Yellow Raincoats', were lush and layered, this debut LP is consciously stripped back and measured. The logic was simple when heading into the studio: abandon perfection, embrace spontaneity and, ultimately, capture the moment. Creaking floorboards are audible; piano-tinkering is a constant theme; and I Have A Tribe's songs - which always seem to come draped in O'Laoghaire's smile - are more intense and contagious than ever.