Dublin-based five-piece Cable Boy announce their anticipated debut album Forever (April 17th) and share the first single ‘Something In My Head’ (Jan 16th).
Building a reputation as one of Ireland’s most exciting newcomers, the 5 piece are wasting no time building on the hype building around their music. The upcoming album showcases the band’s feverish and prolific creativity with a collection of creative, exciting and mature musicality.
Produced by Adam Shanahan, David Tapley alongside Cable Boy themselves, the first single to be taken from the album ‘Something In My Head’ introduces Cable Boy at their most direct and assured. A cool-headed yet volatile track that balances melodic restraint with flashes of punching intensity, the track showcases a more fuzzy, shoegaze oriented side of the band’s sound, comparable to the likes of bdrmm and DIIV.
Built on propulsive guitars, hypnotic rhythms and a detached vocal delivery, offering a striking contrast to their more ethereal, dreampop leaning tracks, ‘Something In My Head’ captures a tension between calm and chaos, a feeling of keeping composure while the world threatens to unravel. Lyrically, it explores survival, emotional detachment and the violence of repetition, echoing the band’s growing reputation for pairing introspection with raw physical energy.
Talking about the single, the band explain: “Something in my Head is about watching and absorbing life changing news and several atrocities everyday on every single social media app and feed while feeling powerless to do anything but watch donate and boycott.
The chorus is a response to the verse; ‘I can be cool just where I am, weather is cooler where I stand, keeping it cool, that’s who I am’ is a tongue in cheek comment on how we absorb these things as artists; being aware but also not really doing anything.”
Formed by school friends Semilore Olusa and Liam Murray, Cable Boy have evolved steadily since their dreamy 2019 EP WHOLE. The post-2020 era marked a creative shift, with the addition of Corneille Tshibasu, Jason Aikhionbare, and Fionn McLoughlin, pushing the band toward a heavier, shoegaze-leaning hybrid sound they’ve dubbed goth disco.
Renowned for their visceral live performances, Cable Boy have already left their mark on some of Ireland’s most respected stages and festivals, including Electric Picnic, Beyond the Pale, Forbidden Fruit, Other Voices in Dingle, and Vicar Street. They’ve also received airplay and coverage across Irish media including RTÉ 2fm, Today FM, Hot Press, Golden Plec and Nialler9 to name a few.
