Hinterlands draws inspiration from the wild western coast

Groove Tube with Cian O’Connell

Keith Wallace’s relationship with Galway music – as a facilitator, producer, promoter and songwriter – extends far beyond any one project. And his independent record label, Rusted Rail, has been operating since 2006, comfortably making it one of the longest running in the city.

At the time of interviewing, he is midway through constructing a horror soundtrack for video production unit Tiny Epics. But, despite his versatile and adaptable approach to work, it is perhaps fair to say Loner Deluxe is the moniker closest to Keith’s heart.

Hinterlands is the fourth, full-length Loner Deluxe LP, and it toes a familiar line between cosmic and rural curiosity.

In many ways, Hinterlands acts as a sequel to last year’s Field Recordings, an album that also embraces the sounds of the landscape on Ireland’s west coast. Recorded with the aid of an Arts Council Agility Act grant in Ballycastle, co. Mayo, the record was launched in Carroll’s on Dominick Street last Thursday, May 5.

“It was only last week, when I put the two albums sitting beside each other, that I realised the covers are very similar,” Keith recalls.

“It’s strange – I hadn’t thought they were similar visually. Then I saw them together and I was like ‘Oh, there’s probably a theme here’. There’s definitely a notion that I was influenced by the landscape I was surrounded by.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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