Dylan Flynn and the Dead Poets make songs that come from the heart. The Limerick group are aiming for pure communication – surging Indie-Rock that comes with a pop openness, their widescreen yet down-to-earth musicality has a viral appeal, yet remains DIY in origin.
2023 saw the band self-produce and release their debut album and take on their biggest shows to date – packing and selling-out rooms across the UK and Ireland. 1,000,000 streams later, support slots with the likes of NewDad and Kingfishr, and continuous radio support in the UK and Ireland, has shown that these lads are one’s to watch for 2024.
At times they recall the buster of The War On Drugs, or the vitality carried by Gang Of Youths; there’s a nod to Radiohead’s raw emotion, or Springsteen’s surging passion – with their songs speaking to twenty-somethings living in a country that completely ignores them.
Part of a wave of energy within Irish music, the band have been nurtured within a close-knit creative community – yet are unafraid to speak with a singular voice.
‘in your eyes’ is a blend of Indie-Rock and Americana, a sound which the band have been teasing across their last few singles. The track opens with melancholic slide guitar, backed by pulsating drums and twinkling rhythm guitars, followed by Flynn’s vocal singing: “Corner of the room left there stranded/Waiting for another night to go south/Eyes wide shut, taken for granted/Always knew you’d take the easy way out.”
Flynn – “This track was the one that made me realise what direction we wanted to take the album in. It was written late in the process, but when we jammed it together as a band it had such a raw and live energy, that we knew we wanted to try capture on the record. It’s a song about denial, and ignoring situations that are clearly making your life much harder.”
This is the newest single from the bands upcoming album, ‘the story after they’re gone’, which comes out on October 11th . The album was written, recorded and self-produced in Black Mountains Studios (Dundalk), with long term collaborator Mike Gavin (Windings). Mike co-produced and mixed the album, while Richard Dowling (Foo Fighters, Brian Eno, Villagers) mastered it.
You can catch the band at playing Electric Picnic or on their Ireland & UK Tour this November.