VENUS VINYL OF THE MONTH - AUGUST 2025
Release Date: 15th August 2025
In 2021 something hit us hard... and it wasn't COVID. When Dublin's David Balfe released his debut self-titled album, For Those I Love, we were absolutely floored by his intense, honest and heartbreaking punk-fuelled electroncia masterpiece. Carving the Stone sees Balfe focusing on his local inner-Dublin area and the characters that make it what it is and the dark capitalist forces eroding it. Musically, it has a more organic sound, yet still hits just as hard and matches the intensity of its predecessor. Lyrically, Balfe is unmatched. A true modern poet with a turn of verse that will stop you in your tracks. Love.
"The second album from Dublin’s For Those I Love, Carving the Stone is a stark and stirring portrait of modern Irish life. Expanding the intimate world of his acclaimed debut, David Balfe turns his lens outward - grappling with the pressures of working-class survival, the erosion of home, and the passage of time. Set to soaring instrumentals and raw spoken word, this is his most direct, urgent work to date: a deeply human collection of songs rooted in memory, resistance, and emotional honesty."
SEP016I - LIMITED INDIE EDITION CRYSTAL CLEAR VINYL
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