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Eimhin is an Irish artist residing in Australia since the age of fourteen. Having been involved in bands for some time, things changed in 2022 when he finally released his own music. His first two solo singles garnered him nationwide attention down under, including radio plays on Double J, as well as coveted editorial playlists such as New Music Daily (Apple Music) & more.
As the contemporary indie-folk artist continues to grow and develop, his eyes set more and more towards home, where he plans to explore his heritage deeper throughout a tour planned for June 2023.
The Lough is part of a series of releases building up towards his debut Album. He explores various different iterations of his former self – be it musically or stylistically – and lands somewhere in the venn diagram where all of him is at ease. From the outside, that seems to range from introspective folk about life & death (as in The Lough), to shout-it-at-the-top-of-your-lungs indie anthems. But for Eimhin, it’s an embrace of a deep sense of emotional honesty and fearlessness.
On the song, Eimhin says:
“The Lough” is about the nature of my grandmother’s death, but it’s about my mother too, and the secrets we keep to try and protect each other. It was just a little piano melody at first. I remember there was this small upright piano in the function room of an old lawn bowls club I used to work at. I would go in there and play it everyday on my break, even though I didn’t really play piano, for a long time this tune was the only thing I could really play!
The Lough ends in a powerful and emotive crescendo taking us somewhere almost transcendental, and leaving us with a feeling of unity – hopeful of a better world. Like the best artists, Eimhin brings us where we must question our relationship with life & death and through his lens we find a momentary sense of inner peace. The new single is out on the 26th of May and available on all streaming services.
BIO
Gold Coast | Yugambeh based artist Eimhin (Ev-an) is an Irish singer songwriter doing his darndest to put out vulnerable, wholehearted music that explores themes of love, loss, and self-discovery.
With a diverse background informed by his Irish folk heritage, he spent his teenage years exploring musical theatre before ultimately playing in original bands and answering the call of punk rock, hardcore, glam and emo.
More recently, Eimhin’s songwriting has matured to embrace a deep sense of emotional honesty and fearlessness – from ethereal folk, to shout-it-at-the-top-of-your-lungs indie anthems.
Through his unique fashion sensibilities and commitment to dismantling patriarchal norms, Eimhin takes up the mantle of artists such as Virgin Prunes, David Bowie and more recently Harry Styles, challenging audiences to let go of restrictive cultural ideas about gender expression and encouraging them to embrace their divine femininity.
“I am inspired by contemporary queer activists like Alok Vaid-Menon who challenge us to question cultural ideas around gender and how they limit our capacity to truly be free. If you want to normalise something, you have to do it like it’s normal.”
He is working on an album called “Modern Mending (Of The Heart)” – in it he describes the experience of coming out of the darkness transformed for the better; he clings tightly to a lesson hard-won, and those sentiments echo across the entire record:
“That’s got to be it, the lesson is love”