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REVERIE: So, tell me a bit about yourselves. How long have you two been making music together?Ian: We’ve known each other for years. We’d always end up chatting late at night saying, “We have to do something together.” We both come from Dublin’s DIY hardcore scene, but we went in different directions, I got into traditional and folk music, and George went into electronic and hip-hop.George: Yeah, we kind of drifted in different directions but stayed in touch. We always said we’d do something eve...

REVERIE: How long have you been performing and how has music influenced your life?Ora Cogan: I started performing when I was really young. I’ve always been pretty excited about music, all kinds of music. I love exploring different genres and learning about traditional music and its history. I’m also really drawn to experimental and conceptual stuff. Honestly, I love country, I love metal, love it all. I like diving into everything and seeing where it takes me. Yeah, I guess I started out as a we...

A shift came after a guitar lesson that ended in tears. Her boyfriend at the time showed her how to sample and rebuild sound from fragments. “Once I learned how to do that,” she says, “I just really leaned into it.” Logic, then Ableton followed. By 2019, she was asking a different question entirely: how to bring something so solitary into a live space.
They aren’t opposites so much as a progression.
Freed resists separating them too cleanly. “Sometimes I wish I could be Tricky FM all the time,”...

Happy summer festival season to all who celebrate! You're out there braving your not-so-irrational fear of porta-potties, thinking you can totally hold your much larger friend on your shoulders for the entirety of the headliner's set, surviving on fries and beer as your sole sources of nutrition — the spirit of the warrior is within you. Beyond the lifelong memories, festivals also have the power to introduce us to our new favourite artists, with curators working day and night to pair kismet eme...