B-Side Guys

The title names a destination. Dublin guitarist Patrick McCarthy doesn’t drift into quiet so much as construct it, layering post-rock architecture with jazz fusion instincts to build something that feels deliberately arrived at rather than ambient by default.

McCarthy wrote and recorded the album during COVID in his Dublin studio, handling most instruments himself and pulling in collaborators where the arrangements demanded it. That process shows in the texture of the track: the kind of careful, unhurried decision-making that comes from working alone with time to reconsider. Mixed by Larry Crane at Jackpot! Recording Studio and mastered by Adam Haggar, the production gives the instrumental room to move without crowding it.

What holds “Into the Quiet Void” together is the tension between the jazz fusion harmonic vocabulary and the post-rock tendency toward slow accumulation. Neither fully wins. The track stays unresolved in a way that suits its title, occupying the space between genres the same way it occupies the space its name describes