The two songwriters have extensive experience, and their friendship darts across the psychedelic ley-line that connects Northern Ireland with Merseyside. Uniting as Throat, the two have settled on a fractured freak folk sound, sculpting a self-titled debut album in sessions between 2021 and 2024 in Omagh, and Merseyside.

Ahead of the release, scorched acoustic vignette ‘Dead Cars’ has been shared in full. Bruised psychedelia reminiscent of those Sad Barrett solo records, it also taps into austerity ennui, and a very modern sense of alienation.

The pair comment…

“We were trying to express the total freedom and joy at driving dead-end cars around dead-end towns at midnight and being invisible to everyone except us and our travelling companions. ‘Dead Cars’ is a paean to lonerism, a northern-Irish blues in e-minor for the Ceefax generation. Think ‘Riders on the Storm’ if The Doors had been on the dole or Springsteen’s ‘State Trooper’ driving a lone scrap metal truck across the winding hills of County Tyrone – he knows who the Zodiac Killer is, because a stray psychic Labrador has been giving him messages from Merseyside the past week. Who cracked the case? THROAT.”

Watch the Official Music Video for Dead Cars

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Throat consists of two artists on sabbatical from their day jobs - Nick Power from The Coral, and McKowski as one half of The Lost Brothers, film score composer (Quantum Cowboys) screen writer (The Spin) and touring musician (Jolie Holland, Howe Gelb, M. Ward). Recorded in the period of 2021 and 2024 between Omagh, Northern Ireland and Merseyside, Throat is a journey through McKowski and Power’s shared imagination.