The Monday Morning Brew #98

A new playlist to kick start the week, Poor Creature (ft. members of Landless & Lankum), and the story of a man who pursued his dream of making fiddle bows in the wilderness at the age of 81.

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This week’s Monday Morning Brew playlist includes music from The New Pornographers, Bassekou Kouyate, Poor Creature, Sacred Paws, Nev Clay, iyatraQuartet, Stranded Horse & Boubacar Cissokho, Spirit Fest, Sam Burton, Doug Paisley, Dean Johnson, Marlon Williams, Rachel Sermanni, Lee Hazlewood, Hayden Pedigo, Graves, Tucker Zimmerman, Floating Action & Wowflower, Guy Capecelatro III.

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Poor Creature

Last week, we wrote about Poor Creature who we last featured in 2022. Orginally a duo featuring Ruth Clinton of Landless and Cormac MacDiarmada of Lankum, they are now a trio, joined by John Dermody (The Jimmy Cake) on drums.

Their new album ‘All Smiles Tonight’, produced by John ‘Spud’ Murphy, will be released on 11^th July, 2025, via Rough Trade’s sister label River Lea Records. Watch the video first album single, ‘The Whole Town Knows’, directed by Ruth Clinton and Cormac MacDiarmada, below.

“The video was filmed over a number of years, near to and far from our home in the northwest of Ireland. Starring ourselves and many friends, both boxy and round, with special thanks to the pigeons of Sligo”, explain the band.

Talking about the album, Ruth shared, “There’s something about the everyday and the fantastical, being entangled, which I think Irish music does so well”.