Vinyl Record

Cypress Mine! - Pulling All The Clouds Apart

Cypress Mine! - Pulling All The Clouds Apart on LP vinyl. A 2026 Irish record from Dolphin Music Group available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

LP · Irish · 2026 · Dolphin Music Group

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 2026 LP on Dolphin Music Group, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection Irish shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.

Pulling All The Clouds Apart is a rare kind of second act: a new Cypress Mine! album arriving decades after the Cork band's first burst of activity, but not written like a museum-piece reunion. Set for release in 2026, it follows the long shadow of Exit Trashtown, the 1987 debut that gave the band a place in Irish independent music history. The gap matters because the album is not simply trying to recover youth. It comes from musicians who have lived through time, distance, changing scenes and different responsibilities, then found a way back into the same room to make new songs. That background gives the record its emotional shape. Cypress Mine! began in the mid-1980s, drawing from jangling indie, post-punk and alternative guitar music at a moment when Cork's independent culture was still forming its own language. Pulling All The Clouds Apart carries that lineage forward, but the reported themes are older, sharper and more socially alert: strong women, physical and mental pain, coercive control, intimidation, violence, love, memory and story. The song titles suggest an album with both direct feeling and narrative oddity, from Safe Highway and Smithereen to California Ceili Band and Angler. The band history gives the release extra charge, especially with Ian Olney and Ciaran O Tuama returning to a story that had been interrupted for so long. Mark Healy's move within the current lineup and the presence of Morty McCarthy connect the project to other strands of Irish alternative music. What matters most, though, is the sense of a band treating age as material rather than obstacle. Pulling All The Clouds Apart promises continuity with the old Cypress Mine! spirit while allowing the writing to sound weathered by the years between.

Pulling All The Clouds Apart matters because it turns a long silence into an active new chapter for a Cork band with real independent-music roots. The 38-year distance from Exit Trashtown gives the album a story few releases can claim, but the interest is not the gap alone. It is the decision to answer that gap with new writing about adult experience, social pressure, pain, memory and love rather than a simple nostalgia exercise.

For collectors of Irish independent music, this album has obvious appeal: it extends the Cypress Mine! story beyond a cult 1980s frame and into a contemporary chapter. It should interest listeners who follow Cork music history, reactivated alternative bands and records where local memory meets present-tense songwriting. The safest collector value is not an edition claim, but the album's role as a long-delayed continuation of a distinctive Irish guitar-band story.

Mature Irish alternative guitar music with jangling indie roots, post-punk memory, narrative songwriting and a reflective tone shaped by distance, reunion and lived experience.

Recommended for: collectors of Cork and Irish independent music history; listeners drawn to mature alternative guitar records; fans of long-gap follow-ups that bring old band chemistry into new writing.

What year is Pulling All The Clouds Apart from? The album is listed for release in 2026, with public release information giving February 13, 2026 as the date. Why is the album historically notable? It follows Cypress Mine!'s 1987 debut Exit Trashtown after a gap of nearly four decades, turning the band's story into a rare long-delayed continuation. What themes does the album address? Public release information points to songs about strong women, physical and mental pain, coercive control, intimidation, violence, love and narrative storytelling.