Louis Brennan

London-based Dubliner Louis Brennan is a singer-songwriter in the folk tradition. His folk however aren’t the field hands and travelling minstrels of yore but the repressed middle managers and ennui-ridden urbanites of late-stage capitalism. They populate tales of bad sex, half-drunk commutes and interpersonal claustrophobia delivered in Brennan’s cracked baritone, at times embarrassingly intimate, at times spuriously broad, peppered with pitch-black humour. Brennan’s debut album 'Dead capital' was released in 2018 and awarded 9/10 by Americana Uk who called it "an outstanding album; deep, dark and demanding of attention" It garnered favourable comparisons to Kris Kristofferson, Guy Clark and Leonard Cohen. A handful of standalone singles included the duet ‘A Full House’ with AMAUK award winning Michele Stodart of The Magic Numbers, described by Holler as "Another jaw-dropper from the singer that gave us the beautiful 'Black Limousine' earlier this year" His eagerly awaited second full length LP 'Love Island' , recorded mid-pandemic at the legendary Rockfield Studios in Wales and mixed at Abbey Road was released in October 2022 and was called “An essential album for our times” by Lonesome Highway A forthcoming third LP, written over a period of isolation on the Northumberland coast and recorded in rural Pembrokeshire is due for release in Spring/Summer 2026