Vinyl Record

NewDad - Altar

NewDad - Altar on LP vinyl. A 2025 Irish record currently sold out at Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

LP · Irish · 2025

Sold out at Kilmorna Collection, retained online as part of the catalogue archive.

Altar is NewDad's second album, released in 2025 after the Galway band's full-length debut Madra. The record keeps the blurred guitar atmosphere that made NewDad stand out, but it feels larger and more direct: heavier alt-rock edges, cleaner melodic pressure and a darker emotional charge running through the writing. It is still unmistakably NewDad, built around Julie Dawson's understated vocal presence and the band's talent for making anxiety sound polished rather than shapeless.

Altar matters because it shows NewDad moving from debut-album promise into a more confident second statement. It connects the band's Irish indie identity with shoegaze, dream-pop and grunge-adjacent alternative rock without turning the songs into nostalgia pieces.

For collectors, Altar is the follow-up to Madra and an important early NewDad title for anyone tracking 2020s Irish guitar music. This copy is currently sold out in Kilmorna's stock record, so the page is kept as a catalogue reference rather than an active product.

Irish alternative rock with shoegaze haze, dream-pop melody, darker guitar weight, cool vocals and a late-night emotional tone.

Recommended for: Listeners following NewDad after Madra; Collectors of contemporary Irish indie and alternative rock; Fans of shoegaze-leaning guitar records with strong melodic writing.

When was Altar released? Altar was released in September 2025 as NewDad's second studio album. Is this copy available from Kilmorna? No. This Kilmorna catalogue entry is currently marked sold out. What style is Altar? It sits between Irish indie rock, shoegaze, dream pop and darker alternative rock.