Irish band Riptide Movement set for stardom with new album
SEVERAL months ago, the Riptide Movement found themselves at the ends of the earth. “We went to Texas to record our album and it was the most isolated place we had ever been,” says frontman Mal Tuohy. “The studio was next to a 20,000 acre pecan farm. There was a train line that went into the horizon. The nearest town consisted of a garage, a shop in the garage, and a bar that had closed.”
The Dubliners were almost entirely cut off from civilisation, apart from their producer Tony Rancich (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Jenny Lewis, etc). The only occasion they saw other people was when they walked towards the Mexican border, three miles distant. The nearest big city, El Paso, was 30 miles west.
