All Tvvins

From math rock to the charts

All Tvvins formed in Dublin in 2013 as a side project between two musicians who had spent the previous decade in bands built on awkward time signatures rather than hooks. Conor Adams sang and played bass in The Cast of Cheers; Lar Kaye played guitar in Adebisi Shank and also in No Spill Blood. Both came out of an Irish DIY scene that prized technical density. What the pair made together went the other way, towards melody, programmed rhythm and synthesiser.

The turn happened slowly and in public. "Thank You" appeared on 7 May 2014, almost two years before any album followed it. "Too Young To Live" came on 6 May 2015 and "Darkest Ocean" on 21 August 2015, then "Unbelievable" on 19 February 2016 and "These 4 Words" on 14 June 2016. By that point the duo had signed to Warner, a step away from the independent labels their earlier bands had worked with.

llVV, and the year it landed

The debut album, llVV, was released on 12 August 2016 through Warner Music UK, produced by Matt Schwartz. Ten songs and thirty-seven minutes, running from "Book" to "Unbelievable". It entered the Irish Albums Chart at number two.

Irish critics took to it. The Irish Times made it album of the week and gave it four stars, calling it feelgood indie-pop at its finest and pointing to the zig-zagging synth riffs and clubby atmosphere that let the duo tick several boxes at once without losing credibility. Nialler9 also made it album of the week, describing a resourceful release filled with a deftly executed take on modern stadium rock and synth pop, and crediting Kaye's guitar work alongside Adams's ability to carry melodies over frenetic rhythms. The Last Mixed Tape gave it five stars; There Goes The Fear scored it 8.5 out of 10.

The record was shortlisted for the RTÉ Choice Music Prize for Irish album of 2016, in a field that also included James Vincent McMorrow; Rusangano Family took the prize with Let the Dead Bury the Dead. Individual tracks travelled further than Irish radio — "Darkest Ocean" was used in the FIFA 16 soundtrack and "Thank You" in Pro Evolution Soccer 2017.

Just to Exist, and the slow fade after it

The second album was trailed across 2018 with "Hell of a Party" in September, then "Warm Crush" and "Infinite Swim", and confirmed on 31 January 2019 when "Build a Bridge" premiered through Billboard. Kaye said that track captured the idea and feel of the whole record; Adams said he had written the words to evoke an atmosphere rather than to make a statement, with imagery somewhere between Thelma & Louise and No Country for Old Men.

Just to Exist arrived on 12 April 2019 on Faction Records — ten tracks, a little over thirty-five minutes, all of it written by Adams and Kaye, with Sorcha Richardson singing on "No One Is Any Fun". The response was more measured than for the debut. The Irish Times gave it three stars and described it as a pleasant second act; The Last Mixed Tape scored it 8 out of 10 as a highly stylised genre record that delivers.

The launch show was the largest headline date the band had taken on: the National Stadium in Dublin on 13 August's opposite end of the year, 13 April 2019, with tickets at €27 and Richardson opening, in a room that had a standing area in front of the stage for the first time in years. A UK and European tour and summer festivals followed. After that the releases thinned — "Divine" later in 2019, "Hope It Don't" in 2020, "Something Special" in 2021 — and then stopped. "Resurrect Me" resurfaced in a Sky Sports GAA championship advert in 2020.

Your Country, and a band that works in bursts

The duo came back on 12 April 2023 with "What's Happening", their first new music in two years, released through Faction, co-produced with Cormac Butler and built around Sinéad White's voice. Adams linked the lyrics to disinformation, irreversible climate damage and the rise of artificial intelligence, describing the song as a retrospective look at the beginning of the end and as a memory that has yet to happen.

The Your Country EP followed on 13 July 2023 with five tracks — "Blessed and Cursed", "What's Happening", "Mouth of God", "Every Minute" and "Something Special" — and it remains the most recent All Tvvins release. Kaye has in the meantime worked as a touring guitarist with The Coronas, which helps explain a schedule that runs in concentrated bursts rather than in conventional album cycles.

Live work picked up around the EP: Indiependence at Deer Park Farm in Mitchelstown on 5 August 2023, then NYF Dublin at Collins Barracks on 29 December 2023, then a four-date Irish run in early 2024 — Dolan's in Limerick on 21 February, Cyprus Avenue in Cork on 23 February, Whelan's in Dublin on 1 March and Róisín Dubh in Galway on 2 March.

Where they stand in October 2026

On 7 September 2026 the band announced a single headline show: The Academy on Middle Abbey Street, Dublin, on Thursday 5 November 2026, performing llVV in full to mark ten years since its release. Tickets went on sale on 9 September at €26.50 including booking and venue facility fees, with special guests billed but not named.

That is the whole diary. Songkick lists one upcoming All Tvvins concert and nothing after it. No third album has been announced and there has been no new single since the 2023 EP, which leaves the anniversary night carrying the weight on its own — a ten-song record from 2016 being measured against the room it helped build.