“Dynamic, at times almost ambient, but always hopelessly beautiful.”
– Clash
“A cavernous slice of dream-pop.”
– Our Culture
“One of Ireland’s most vital young voices.”
– Bandcamp
Irish musician Maria Somerville will share her forthcoming second album and debut project on 4AD, Luster, on 25 April.
+ Listen to ‘Stonefly’ on all streaming services now +
Today, Somerville shares the upcoming record’s third single, ‘Stonefly’, a slinky ambient waltz fleshed out with dreamy washes of vibrating feedback, grounding drum beats, transportive harp passages, and soothing vocal delivery. The track’s release is also accompanied by an atmospheric music video directed by Daniel Swan (who has past credits creating visuals for A.G. Cook’s PC Music, as well as Bladee and Yung Lean’s 2024 Psykos LP).
Over the last few months, Somerville further introduced Luster’s haunting tranquility and lush sonic backdrop with two other singles from the record: ‘Garden’ (a whirring, all-consuming merger of soaring feedback, airy percussion, and nostalgic guitar chords produced by Diego Herrera, aka Suzanne Kraft) and ‘Projections’ (a wistful and romantic shoegaze track drenched in longing via fuzzed-out bass and strummed guitar).
By the time Irish musician Maria Somerville started writing Luster, her landmark label debut for 4AD, she had lived away from her native Connemara for quite some time. Having grown up amongst the wild, mountainous terrain of Galway’s rural west coast, she later relocated to Dublin, where she patiently developed an atmospheric dream pop signature inspired by the landscape of her youth – a spellbinding sound world of gusting ambient electronics, ethereal guitar strums, sparse percussion, and hushed lyrical vignettes. In 2019, this culminated in All My People, a self-released LP steeped in reverb, nostalgia and a yearning for home that won praise from discerning press and listeners alike.
Maria Somerville’s UK and European headline tour will take place in April and May, finishing at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) on 10 May. The full list of dates is below.
+ Tickets and information on Maria’s tour +
April 2025
4th – Rewire Festival, The Hague, The Netherlands
15th – Coughlans, Cork, Ireland
16th – Dolans, Limerick, Ireland
17th – Black Box, Belfast, UK
18th – Button Factory, Dublin, Ireland
19th – Flying Duck, Glashow, UK
20th – Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh, UK
22nd – White Hotel, Manchester, UK
23rd – Headrow House, Leeds, UK
24th – Strange Brew, Bristol, UK
25th – Green Store Door, Brighton, UK
29th – Botanique, Brussels, Belgium
May
2nd – Berghain Kantine, Berlin, Germany
4th – Alice, Copenhagen, Denmark
6th – Voxhall, Aarhus, Denmark
7th – MS Stubnitz, Hamburg, Germany
10th – ICA, London, UK
16th – The Thing in the Spring, Keene, NH, US
17th – Public Records, Brookyn NY, US
20th – Sunset, Seattle WA, US
21st – Gray Area, San Francisco CA, US
22nd – Zebulon, Los Angeles CA, US
June
5th – 7th – Primavera Sound, Barcelona, Spain