{"id":49128,"date":"2019-04-16T14:39:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T13:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=49128"},"modified":"2019-04-16T18:48:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T17:48:07","slug":"telephone-explosions-return-with-full-length-self-titled-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/04\/telephone-explosions-return-with-full-length-self-titled-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Telephone Explosions Return With Full Length Self Titled Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2017\/08\/essentially-pop-meets-telephone-explosions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Telephone Explosions are back<\/a> following their brief hiatus in 2018. The <a href=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/10\/telephone-explosions-released-new-track-and-video-for-tine-cnamh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">experimental dream-pop duo<\/a> return with a new full length self-titled album, set for release on 23 April. &#8216;Telephone Explosions&#8217; is available to <a href=\"https:\/\/distrokid.com\/hyperfollow\/telephoneexplosions\/telephone-explosions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pre-save here for Spotify<\/a>, with the CD purchased directly from <a href=\"https:\/\/telephoneexplosions.bandcamp.com\/album\/telephone-explosions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bandcamp<\/a>. .<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><!-- Random Ad stuff --> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2076862002005673\" data-ad-slot=\"3107208401\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Telephone Explosions finished writing and recording their album after the birth of their second child in 2018. Co-produced with Anthony Gibney at Audioland Studios, and mastered by Hayley Connolly at Masterlabs, the album retains the ambient and experimental sound the duo are known for, while hinting at Irish traditional music, as well as drum machines and synth. Self released, like their previous releases &#8216;Significant&#8217;, and &#8216;Pocket&#8217; (the latter of which appears on the album), the debut album draws on themes of hidden transmissions, and unsolved mysteries, as well as new life, and waking the dead.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking of the album, Telephone Explosions, which consists of Dolores Fogarty and Adrian Mee, said,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Writing about people like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Death_of_Elisa_Lam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Death_of_Elisa_Lam&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1555506496326000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG3gzQy6xAGNRWN8dNLOw-6RR-8BQ\">Elisa Lam<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lyle_Stevik\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lyle_Stevik&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1555506496326000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE9FymhjssN3EVrLVklPfjixDRkuQ\">Lyle Stevik<\/a>\u00a0inspired us\u00a0to capture the wider human experience &#8211; the microcosms of despair, the joy, the fear and confusion that we have all felt.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Telephone Explosions formed in Maynooth in 2016, and received a warm critical reception for their debut single, &#8216;Pocket&#8217;, the following year. They have played at Body&amp;Soul\u00a0@\u00a0Electric Picnic and Sligo Live as well as occasional intimate gigs in Kildare and Dublin. We spoke to them back in 2017 &#8211;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/essentially-pop\/essentially-pop-meets-telephone-explosions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">listen to our interview here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" 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>.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7qjUJREBJP8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telephone Explosions are back following their brief hiatus in 2018. The experimental dream-pop duo return with a new full length self-titled album, set for release on 23 April. &#8216;Telephone Explosions&#8217; is available to pre-save here for Spotify, with the CD purchased directly from Bandcamp. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":49133,"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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_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":[7,9,640],"tags":[16823,20893,20892,481,16822,251,20894,126,369,20895,10882,144,77,370,10884,14584,10885,20891,10883,81],"class_list":["post-49128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-videos","tag-adrian-mee","tag-anthony-gibney","tag-audioland-studios","tag-bandcamp","tag-dolores-fogarty","tag-dublin","tag-hayley-connolly","tag-ireland","tag-irish","tag-masterlabs","tag-maynooth","tag-new-album","tag-new-release","tag-new-single","tag-pocket","tag-presale","tag-significant","tag-still-water","tag-telephone-explosions","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-cMo","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29331,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2017\/08\/essentially-pop-meets-telephone-explosions\/","url_meta":{"origin":49128,"position":0},"title":"Essentially Pop Meets: Telephone Explosions","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"09\/08\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"While on her Irish Roadshow recently, Lisa spoke to Dolores and Adrian from Telephone Explosions, Maynooth, Ireland. 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