Really Good Time detail debut album Affirmations and share new single "Do It"

The band, who spent 2025 playing SXSW, The Great Escape, and Other Voices, and supporting Franz Ferdinand, The Murder Capital, and Gurriers, enter this next phase with their first full-length collection. The group have built a reputation as a live act on both sides of the Irish Sea, and Affirmations brings together new single "Do It" with previous tracks "Shit One" and "Bob Dylan Was On Pawn Stars in 2010". Which he actually was.

Lyrically, "Do It" addresses the grind of Irish suburbia against the backdrop of a financial and housing crisis. Vocalist/guitarist Diolmhain Ingram Roche described the track as “about impossible tasks”.

“It’s about trying to do everything you have been told to do in life, and never achieving what was promised,” he said. “The goalposts have shifted, no, that isn’t how you do it. Are you angry? Are you ashamed? Go and roll that stone up the hill again.”

The single is accompanied by a music video directed by Sophie O’Donovan, who previously worked with the band on the video for "Bob Dylan Was On Pawn Stars in 2010". Roche said O’Donovan wanted the visuals to “embody what the song is about in the abstract”, adding that she “tapped into something that runs through the performance and the sonics of the record – presenting us as completely at the mercy of the world around us.”

Regarding the album, the band said Affirmations is “a collection of songs about turning inwards when this fresh hell becomes too much to process”. They added: “That feeling must be spat out and rejected. Lurching from one panic attack to the next, our album ultimately seeks a rejection of navel-gazing nihilism – by recognising how easy it is to slip into, then pointing at it and laughing.”

Really Good Time have upcoming live dates including Glasgow’s King Tut’s on 9 May, London’s Sebright Arms on 12 May, and a set at The Great Escape in Brighton on 14 May. They also play Dublin’s Collins Barracks on 30 August with Super Furry Animals and Baxter Dury.

Affirmations artwork