New LIVE ALBUM, UNDER THE RAGGED THORN, released JANUARY 15TH,2021 on Bohemia Records.

Joe Chester's albums have been written about in the books 101 Irish Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, by Tony Clayton-Lea and Buried Treasure by Dan Hegarty and featured recently in The Sunday Times list of the best Irish albums of all time - "Chester's debut solo album is a perfect pop record. The songs are at once effortless, memorable, hook-laden and a masterclass in subtle dynamics." His fifth album, The Easter Vigil, meanwhile, was named 2017 Irish Album of the Year by The Sun who described it as, "A tonic for these times, a triumph of substance over style." Jupiter's Wife, his sixth studio album was voted Best Irish Album of 2020 by the Irish Daily Mirror. He has been nominated for the Choice Music Prize for Album of the Year, the Meteor Irish Music Awards for Best Male Artist and for Best Album in the RTE Folk Awards (with The Hedge Schools.) His latest album, Jupiter’s Wife, a double album, partly recorded at the legendary Sun Studio, Memphis, Tennessee, was named “One of the greatest Irish albums of the decade,” by the Irish Daily Mirror. A producer of over 60 albums for other artists, including multi-platinum and Number 1 albums and singles both in Ireland and overseas, he was until recently one half of the critically acclaimed Hedge Schools, has been lead guitarist of The Waterboys, toured extensively with Gemma Hayes, accompanied Sinead O'Connor and performed for Irish president Michael D. Higgins. He is guitarist and producer of Dublin group a lazarus soul whose 2019 album, "The D They Put Between The R & L" was voted album of the year (and indeed the decade) by numerous end of year polls. Hotpress Magazine have described Joe Chester as "A legitimate giant of Irish music."

Jupiter's Wife is out now on Bohemia Records.

One of the greatest Irish albums of the decade.

Irish Daily Mirror

The same rarified territory as Robert Forster of the Go Betweens.

RTE

Folk in its purest form.

Magic, Revue Pop Moderne

This music stimulates the mind as much as it pleases the ear.

THE Sunday Times

An early Choice Music Prize contender.

PlayIrish

An album to lose yourself in. ****½

the Sunday Business Post

He should be a household name.

Irish Independent

This music lifts us far, very high from our smallness. *****

Benzine Magazine

A songwriter’s songwriter, he’s had praise for his alt-pop melodies heaped on him but… his career hasn’t been forged with those aims. Instead, he’s trying to do something different: challenge himself and continue to make music that feels original.

Nadine O’Regan

In Radio you are always looking for that bit of magic. When Dylan was recording Blonde on Blonde he called it “that wild, thin mercury sound.” It’s an elusive combination of all the elements: the voice, the lyric, the instruments, the production the sound. It’s hard to describe, but you know it when you hear it. It is here, on A Murder of Crows, in spades.

Tom Dunne, Newstalk

The devil may indeed always lurk amidst the detail but it takes the confidence of a master to allow the magic flourish deep inside the quiet.

Blackpool Sentinel

Like every other song on this vivid, delicate, perfect-pop record, it touches on the elusiveness of love, but Chester nails it (and the rest) with all the certainty and precision of a shipwright.

Tony-Clayton-Lea

Joe Chester has become one of the finest songwriters in the country. A legitimate giant of Irish music.

Hotpress Magazine

But as demonstrated in the small miracle of 2017 there is still room for those who wait for the judgment of time. The dreamy simplicity of "The Middle Distance", the incisive refrain of "Napoleon Bonaparte" and the perfection of "Acid Rain", are tangible proof that there is still room for good taste and the art of songwriting even in the fragile world of pop music.

ondarock, Italy