{"id":29331,"date":"2017-08-09T14:01:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T13:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=29331"},"modified":"2017-08-09T14:01:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T13:01:41","slug":"essentially-pop-meets-telephone-explosions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2017\/08\/essentially-pop-meets-telephone-explosions\/","title":{"rendered":"Essentially Pop Meets: Telephone Explosions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"29333\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2017\/08\/essentially-pop-meets-telephone-explosions\/img_5306\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_5306.jpg?fit=1200%2C1200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1501006516&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_5306\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_5306.jpg?fit=640%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29333\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_5306.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>While on her Irish Roadshow recently, Lisa spoke to Dolores and Adrian from Telephone Explosions, Maynooth, Ireland. Dolores Fogarty previously sang with Irish electro pop act, Hvmminbyrd, but has decided to form a duo with her partner Adrian Mee.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The pair have so far released two songs, &#8216;Pocket&#8217;, and &#8216;Significant&#8217;. The latter is described as &#8221; a harmonic meditation on our place in the universe&#8221;. A dream-pop style piece, it reflects the duo&#8217;s inspirations which come from number stations, hidden transmissions, and unbroken codes. They plan to release their debut album early next year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can catch Telephone Explosions at Electric Picnic on the Body &amp; Soul stage, Stradbally, County Laois, on Sepember 1. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1885277858389338\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find more information her<\/a>e.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Check out Telephone explosions online on their <a href=\"http:\/\/telephoneexplosions.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official website<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/telexplosions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/telephoneexplosions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/telexplosions\/\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/telephoneexplosions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soundcloud<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC5I7QelE-TLbHMhWQkQWg_Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>. You can find their music on <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/4LO8NMQy1zx884vEfNfeXW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/artist\/telephone-explosions\/id1256802671\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iTunes<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/telephoneexplosions.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bandcamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Essentially Pop Meets: Telephone Explosions by Essentially Pop\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F337135075&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=960&#038;maxwidth=640&#038;secret_token=s-AmDbT\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While on her Irish Roadshow recently, Lisa spoke to Dolores and Adrian from Telephone Explosions, Maynooth, Ireland. Dolores Fogarty previously sang with Irish electro pop act, Hvmminbyrd, but has decided to form a duo with her partner Adrian Mee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":29333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[641],"tags":[3757,251,3331,126,369,10882,10884,1660,10885,308,309,69,10883],"class_list":["post-29331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews","tag-dream-pop","tag-dublin","tag-hvmmingbyrd","tag-ireland","tag-irish","tag-maynooth","tag-pocket","tag-shoegaze","tag-significant","tag-singers","tag-songwriters","tag-soundcloud","tag-telephone-explosions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-7D5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40944,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/10\/telephone-explosions-released-new-track-and-video-for-tine-cnamh\/","url_meta":{"origin":29331,"position":0},"title":"Telephone Explosions Released New Track And Video For &#8216;Tine Cn\u00e1mh&#8217;","author":"Essentially Pop","date":"03\/10\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Telephone Explosions released a haunting new track, 'Tine Cn\u00e1mh', on 1 October. 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