As part of the inaugural MODERN LOVERS, a new music programme curated by Foggy Notions across multiple venues in Dublin City from Nov 9th to 16th acclaimed Brooklyn artist Wendy Eisenberg makes their Irish debut headlining an incredible bill featuring Dan English & Superfan. 

“No two Eisenberg records have sounded the same: They have made fractured jazz records, shredding rock epics, banjo improvisations. To mine this expansive new territory, Eisenberg has turned to what they call “weirdo country interpreters” – Richard Dawson, the Mekons, Joanna Newsom. Eisenberg’s compositional intelligence has a near-merciless quality, zeroing in on feelings of calm and unsettling them.” – Pitchfork, Best New Album 2026 

Wendy Eisenberg has spent the past decade as a fixture of independent music and an artist of inspired multiplicity. As a singer-songwriter, improviser, and virtuoso guitarist, the coordinates of their artistry are ever-shifting, from art-rock to jazz to blistering free improv and eloquent folk. On catalog highlights including 2020’s ‘Auto’ and the 2024 free-jazz sprawler ‘Viewfinder’, they’ve made a signature of ambition.

As Eisenberg told fellow guitarist Nick Millevoi in an interview for Premier Guitar in 2021, “I need to be in a punk band at the same time as I need to be playing free improv at the same time as I need to be playing songs. All at the same time—otherwise none of the practices will work for me.” Their musical range isn’t a glib manifestation of eclecticism, but a genuine artistic essence.

For the longing listener… The music of composer Dan English is the communing of the head and the heart sharing secrets. The songs subsume time into feelings and images of purity,  sonically and spiritually, and then, somewhat masochistically, play with lyrics drawn from the dingier parts of life: love, family, and capricious head-spaces. It’s movie-music; eternal scores for an espionage film with a protagonist who’s a clandestine, time-traveling romantic tailing the spirit itself. Born in a quiet town in Iowa, he grew up chasing invisible things: codes in books, echoes in movies, half-sentences in songs. English found himself glued to the radio from an early age and, after picking up guitar at 10, language and sound conspired. Following a move to New York City, Dan released his first album “Fruit Boy”  in 2018 followed by 2020’s “In Grace” EP. His newest offering, Sky Record (June 2025), is his second full-length album and continues to expand upon and probe the depths explored in his  previous work. The music is part confession, part séance— lush spells where the sacred and the stained trade places. Emotions arrive in disguises: tenderness (smoke), grief (rhythm), 
silence (a cathedral on the verge of collapse). 

Superfan is the songwriting veil of Kali Priya Flanagan, Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist and producer. Initially imagined as a solo act, ambitious string arrangements crafted in collaboration with cellist Omeed Almassi have come to define Superfan’s noisy and magnetic pop soundscape. Kali began studying music at age four and writing songs at age eleven, signing his first record deal at age fourteen while refining his singular musicality across piano, drums, bass, upright, and violin. Now having just signed with London based label AD 93 (Joanne Robertson, YHWH Nailgun, Dagmar Zuniga), Superfan is set to release the sophomore album My Piledriver Heart (MPDH). The album marks the birth of “Acousticello”, the extensive live collaboration between Flanagan and Almassi, which has defined Superfan’s performances and recordings over the past two years. MPDH captures the duo’s ambitious string arrangements with naturalistic intent and pop magnetism. If Superfan’s critically acclaimed 2024 debut, Tow Truck Jesus [The FADER, Office, Flaunt, Alt Press], captured the raw immediacy of emotions surrounding the throes of his transition in direct and deeply personal terms, this sophomore album operates differently. MPDH operates differently. Spanning ten tracks, MPDH is a mature and melancholic record that explores aspects of the interpersonal and intrapersonal from the vantage point of a man no longer in transition.