LOU MCMAHON
Composer | Reporter
Lou McMahon’s FYC.
For Your Consideration
DEAD SOUND — Lou McMahon (Meaisín)
Best Alternative Music Performance
For Your Consideration
DEAD SOUND — Lou McMahon (Meaisín)
Song of the Year
For Your Consideration
DEAD SOUND — Lou McMahon (Meaisín)
Best arrangement, instruments and vocals
🅓🅔🅐🅓 🅢🅞🅤🅝🅓 blends a rich tapestry of genres and ideas, limerence tangled with climate crisis and alienation - an alien forced far away from an object of affection. Anchored by acoustic instrumentation the song features bowed double bass drones interwoven with three contrasting choral vignettes it transitions from introspective melancholy, obsession, and into expansive moments of hopeful choral expression, complimented by slow textured rock acoustic guitar vibes and modern pop sensibilities, and mood lyrics.
Recorded from Lou’s home as a solo project, Dead Sound embraces intimacy at its core. Written while cold-water swimming on the Atlantic coast of County Clare (2024–2025), the song captures solitude, resilience, and raw lyricism. It’s something like a Gone Girl, a thriller in the form of a song, addressed to an unaware shore…
It premiered on RTÉ 2XM’s “Spinning Away” on March 1st 2025
Since the release of Dead Sound, Lou became the voice of Ironwood Studios’ reveal trailer for Pacific Drive: Whispers in the Woods. Lou will perform her haunting works at Games Ground Berlin (November 15th) and at Theater Pool, Berlin (October 23rd).
Thank you for considering Dead Sound.
