Having originally started composing songs together in a bid to heal after a period of extended hospital stays and traumatic uncertainties, Dublin-based sisters Méabh and Mella’s musical endeavour, Carron, – so called because it’s the sibling’s surname – has since evolved into a vessel for their kinship, becoming a project through which they can share and learn.

Following a successful debut on the Irish music scene in 2015, the pair proceeded to sail into the Irish iTunes album chart’s top five with the release of their inaugural EP, Roots, in April of 2016 before embarking on a tour of their homeland and serving as support to The Coronas across the sea in London.

2017 saw Carron experience even more success when their last single, “Battles Lines”, hit the number one spot on the iTunes singer/songwriter chart, preceding a plethora of well-received performances at the likes of Electric Picnic, Groove Festival, Bloom in the Park and The Workman’s Club, and now they’re back with a brand new track entitled “Even Sad Birds Sing”.

Said to embody the siblings’ new mission statement, “the harder we fall, the louder we will sing”, the extremely touching three and a half minute tune dives straight into a strikingly resonant refrain which reverberates warmly across an assortment of subtle but stirring instrumentation during the endearingly gentle first verse.  

The music and melody grow gradually in vigour and vibrancy going into an engrossingly heartfelt chorus at the end of the opening minute. Another enticingly soft stanza follows from here, paving the way to a remarkably mellifluous vocal breakdown about two thirds of the way through, after which the whole thing culminates in one last onslaught of magnificently moving music and superbly spirited singing. The outcome is a characteristically canorous and affecting folk/pop piece from Carron that displays plenty of power and passion as it plays out. Its exceptionally adept synthesis of seductively pleasant yet expressive vocals and spectacularly smooth and ethereal instrumentation embeds itself deep in the mind and refuses to withdraw.