TELEFIS presents dance-clash 'Archbishop Beardmouth At The ChemOlympics' EP
[2022-04-13]
The final salvo from the recently released and much applauded Telefís album ‘a hAon’ is the 'Archbishop Beardmouth At The ChemOlympics' EP, which finds band members Garret 'Jacknife' Lee (U2, REM, Modest Mouse, The Wombats) and Cathal Coughlan (Microdisney, Fatima Mansions) collaborating with revered electro-pop pioneer Thomas Leer, in addition to creating different versions of four key album tracks.
Telefís (Irish Gaelic for Television, pronounced Tele-feesh) is a collaboration between these two Irish iconoclasts. With Jacknife in LA and Cathal in London, the two spent 2020 trading ideas and musical files during lockdown, hatching plans for a satirical, mischievous examination of Irish history and pop culture in their lifetimes, which they've dubbed ”a corrosive nostalgia”. The resultant album 'a hAon' (number one), released by Dimple Discs on March 4, 2022.
A radio edit of the album’s dancefloor banger 'Archbishop Beardmouth' and Thomas Leer's superb remix are accompanied by three new versions of 'Picadors', 'Ballytransnational' and 'There Goes Waterface', created by Jacknife Lee with spoken word appearances by family and friends. These meditative and reflective re-interpretations of the album versions frame Cathal’s lyrics in the voices of an older Irish generation, imbuing the words with a fresh sense of poetry and melancholy.
The 'Archbishop Beardmouth At The ChemOlympics' EP is out now digitally. Apart from such platforms as Spotify and Apple Music, it can be ordered directly from the artist via Bandcamp.
TRACK LIST
1. Archbishop Beardmouth At The ChemOlympics (Radio Edit)
2. Archbishop Beardmouth At The ChemOlympics (Thomas Leer Version)
3. Picadors (voiced by Auntie Joan)
4. Ballytransnational (voiced by Da and Esther)
5. There Goes Waterface (voiced by Mrs. Hegarty)
