Album finds Loner Deluxe outstanding in his own field

Groove Tube with Cian O’Connell

Keith Wallace’s work with independent Galway record label Rusted Rail has produced a broad and eclectic catalogue of music since its inception in 2006.  A passion project that prides itself on facilitating and endorsing its artists, the label has been as much a vehicle for Keith’s peers as well as it has his own work under the moniker Loner Deluxe. And fittingly, his latest work enlists the help of several musicians with longstanding ties to Rusted Rail.

Set for release this Friday, Field Recordings is Loner Deluxe’s third full-length LP. Written and recorded with David Colohan (United Bible Studies), Brian Kelly (So Cow) and Cecilia Danell (A Lilac Decline), the album draws on themes of technology and science-fiction across fourteen atmospheric tracks. Having sat on it for almost a year, it is a record that Keith has had time to shape and develop.

“This album was finished on April Fools’ Day last year,” he recalls. “It was mixed and mastered and ready to go and then I sat on it for a year.

“Every song bar Viral Hit was written and recorded pre-Covid so it’s not a pandemic album other than that song. If there’s a theme to it, I think it’s to do with outdated technology and the pace of modern life.

“There are also elements of the supernatural in there. The song Space Junk is basically about humans polluting the earth as well as leaving satellites spinning in space. The song Gone Fission, which is a pun on nuclear fission, I wrote after watching Chernobyl.

“So, it’s basically about all of the ways humans have messed up the earth but, on the other side of it, hopefully it’s upbeat and catchy and provides forty-five minutes of a nice listen where you don’t have to think about any of these things at all.”

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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