New Music from Sack - "Tide's Out"
SACK
NEW SINGLE ‘TIDE’S OUT’
OUT NOW!
LIVE AT WHELAN’S, DUBLIN FEBRUARY 8TH
WITH SPECIAL GUEST JEM MITCHELL
TICKETS HERE
Dublin band Sack will release their new single ‘Tide’s Out' on Wednesday, January 29th. It is the latest single to be taken from the band's critically acclaimed new album Wake Up People! which has made many end of year lists for 2024.
The track was produced by John (Spud) Murphy (Birds Of Olympus) and Sack, engineered by Ber Quinn (John Grant, The Divine Comedy, Villagers) at Dublin's Sonic Studios and mixed by Dave Eringa (Manic Street Preachers, The Who, Kylie, Ocean Colour Scene)
Sack will launch the vinyl edition of the new album with a show in Whelan’s on Saturday, February 8th, with special guest Jem Mitchell.
‘Tide’s out’ refers to distance or distancing oneself from a situation within a relationship. There’s also an element of attraction versus rejection and how a volatile situation can develop in a negative space within a relationship. Martin McCann
Tide’s Out is available to stream and download from Wednesday, January 29th
LIVE - Sat Feb 8th - Whelan’s, Dublin - Vinyl Album launch show
"The new Sack album is quite likely the best 'comeback' album (as it were) of any Irish band of their generation. Why? It sounds as 'right now' as any indie rock act I can think of. Guys in their 50's not reliving their past but surging ahead." Tony Clayton-Lea - Irish Times Music Editor.
"I've a pain in my face from smiling after listening to the new Sack album on repeat today. It's just so damn good!" Dan Hegarty - RTE 2FM
ALBUM OF THE WEEK - "Martin has one of the all time, most beautiful of voices" Tom Dunne (Newstalk)
"At every turn the arrangements are inventive, Brereton & McCann's lyrics are evocative and sharp and the melodies sear into the brain. The wham-bam-glam cover is this year's best too." Pat Carty - Irish Times - 4 Stars
"One of my songs of the year" RTE Radio 1 DJ Lilian Smith on 'Do You Need Love'
ALBUM OF THE WEEK - 'The dazzling new album from Irish music legends Sack' - Alan Jacques - Limerick’s live 95FM
Album of the Week - Martin Bridgeman - KCLR 96FM Kilkenny/Carlow
"An uncanny ability to pen an ear worm of a melody have conspired in a fantastic new addition to the canon of excellent Irish music in 2024" - Totally Dublin
"The rousing Wake Up People! is a fresh, vibrant collection of songs, bursting with vim and vigour." Stephen Byrne - GoldenPlec - 4 Stars
"The sound is unmistakably Sack, full of snappy Indie hooks, basslines and beats and Martin McCanns vocals are just as rich as when they burst onto the scene in the mid 90's" - David Coughlan - The Irish Star
SACK BIOGRAPHY
Their first single ‘What Did the Christians Ever Do For Us?’ was single of the week in both the NME and Melody Maker. In 1993 they signed to UK Indie label Lemon Records, who released their first album ‘You Are What You Eat’.
This was followed by 1997's' ‘Butterfly Effect'’ which was produced by Stereolab producer Paul Tipler and Garret 'Jacknife' Lee, U2/REM etc. The album contained one of their most memorable tracks, “Laughter Lines”, a song Morrissey said, “should be Number One forever” and at Morrissey’s behest Sack opened for him on his 1999 Oye Esteban World Tour taking in mainland Europe, the UK & Ireland, and the USA. The former Smiths singer also included “Colorado Springs” (from ‘You Are What You Eat’) on his hand-picked NME CD "Songs to Save Your Life" before inviting the band to open for him again on a European tour in 2002.
2001 saw ‘Adventura Majestica’ come out on the band's own Jetset Junta label and was the last official release from the band until August 2021 saw the band return with their first new material in 20 years with a brand-new single “What A Way To Live” which received massive nationwide airplay in Ireland as well as many great accolades across the board including Newstalk’s Tom Dunne declaring it his ‘single of the year’. May 2022, saw the 25th Anniversary edition of their classic album ‘Butterfly Effect’ on vinyl for the first time ever to renewed acclaim for the album from fans and media alike, with The Charlatans' Tim Burgess hosting one of his hugely popular Twitter Listening Parties for the newly reissued album.
In May 2024, Sack released the album’s title track - Wake Up People! - as the first single and it quickly garnered radio play from Dan Hegarty, John Creedon, Cathal Murray, Keiran McGuinness and, most notably, Tom Dunne as he made it his single of the week, playing it twice in one night - the song which instigated his ‘Two From Tommy’ program sting (a la John Peel's seminal Teenage Kicks broadcasting moment) - and played it every night for three weeks straight. October, 2024 saw the release of the bands first album in over 20 years to great critical acclaim by many respected DJ’s and journalists, as well as being included in numerous end of year favorite album lists of 2024 across the varied media outlets.
