Limerick brothers Tom and Cian O’Dowd — The Guzzlers — have poured another one for the faithful. Fresh off 20 Pints To Cherbourg (lager’s turn), the Liverpool-based Irish punk-folk duo drop A Pint Of Plain Is Your Only Man, a banjo-driven toast to stout and the old line that a Guinness won’t let you down when everything else will. There’s grief under the foam — lost jobs, lost homes, two aul lads at the bar talking shite — the way Irish music always has. Self-released single released early September on Bandcamp and the usual streams; debut album Drinking The Dream lands November 6, ten live acoustic tracks recorded with Jon Withnall. December they ride shotgun with Highstool Prophets through Liverpool, London and Manchester. Stick to what never lets you down.
