Album review: Christy Moore - Lily

4/5

Fresh from a hagiographic profile on RTÉ, Christy Moore is back with his first collection of new material in three years. Stepping between originals and reworkings of older tunes, the album is classic Moore, combining typically salty vocals with bustling arrangements from producer Declan Sinnott.

Throughout the singer flits between his trademark emotional notes of foggy sentimentality and firebrand anger, occasionally swerving from one to the other over the space of a single song or couplet.