15 Augustus 2025
Band: IN ATHENS
Who: Indie newcomers from the rugged meeting point of Connemara, Galway, Ireland and the wild Atlantic. Their music is a powerful blend of fuzz-drenched post-gaze nostalgia and razor-sharp modern post-punk energy, creating an evocative soundscape that reflects the majestic beauty, raw power and shimmering tranquillity of their surroundings.
“We chose the name In Athens because it felt like an answer with weight. It references
a place where art, philosophy, music, and storytelling became formalized where culture
became something shared. But we’re far away, surrounded by sea, silence, and storm.”
FFO: Autolux, Just Mustard, Silversun Pickups and The Altered Hours
Debut single: OR ANYTHING
From their upcoming EP
titled Mirrorism.
“If nothing truly matters, doesn’t everything then matter equally?”. In this view, meaning isn’t dictated by some external cosmic order, but by individual perception and choice. This can be viewed as both nihilistic and liberating: when no single thing matters more than another by default, we’re free to assign our own value to experiences, relationships, and actions.
In a meaningless universe, the act of caring becomes a radical and deeply personal choice,
one that gives life its richness and weight. The song represents the distillation of these elements into a wonderful hypnotic groove that both feels familiar and entirely new at the same time.”
TUTV: Wicked bass, riot-gun drums and galvanic, shoegazy guitars combine for
a mind-bending intro, and introduce their instantly bone-chilling vocalist. Blimey,
way to start this fully-charged journey.
Or Anything gets under your skin without asking. Its gloomy mid-tempo
progression draws you into a nerve-racking and stratospheric wall-of-sound
vortex.
Bloodcurdling debut.