Brian Dillon of Meltybrains? has released his new album, Red Blood Cells and Righteousness, under the pseudonym The Line. We asked him the BIG questions . . .

The 13-track communally created record features Irish acts such as Godknows, Sorcha Richardson, Dan Fox of Gilla Band, Sarah Corcoran of Pillow Queens, Caoi de Barra of Wyvern Lingo, and Lullahush.

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Speaking about new song, Communion, which features Loah and Fehdah, Brian says, "It's a song about who you are, where you’re from and how the experiences of the past shape the person that you are now.

"In the song, both Loah and Fehdah explore these ideas from both personal and societal standpoints. It explores the regrets felt by individuals in a society which is built on so many mistakes that it may never be able to redeem itself."

Speaking about the album, Brian says "This is an album built on personal relationships and communication, dedicated to playing a small but significant role as a part of a world so much bigger than any of us are willing to admit. After all, maybe we’re all just blood cells, swimming through the veins of the earth, serving a much higher function."

The Line play: 18 November - Róisín Dubh, Galway. 19 November - Connolly’s of Leap, Cork. 25 November - The Sugar Club, Dublin.

Tell us three things about yourself . . .

In order to make a living in music, I've worked a variety of bizarre occupations. This includes working as a butcher, a bootlegger and a bro... professional jogger. At the moment all of my work is in music, but I'm always ready for a side-hustle in phone sanitization or rust repairing. I run marathons for fun, which suggests that I'm pathologically masochistic. The only pets I've ever had were two goldfish, which we named after prominent Kenyan political figures.

How would you describe your music?

The music I make is a combination of sweet, somewhat cheesy songs and walls of noise. It's a bit of a juxtaposition, but I think it works! Jokes aside, I love songs and try to combine the craft of songwriting with the sonic possibilities of electronic music. I also love working with other artists, so there tend to be a wide range of different genres in the work.

Who are your musical inspirations?

I'm a pretty voracious listener and make a real effort to listen to current musical trends. As a result, recent influences include contemporary songwriting greats such as Sufjan Stevens, Phoebe Bridgers and Frank Ocean, sound artists like Tim Hecker, Grouper and Oneohtrix Point Never and pop-pioneers such as Rosalia, FKA Twigs and Carly Rae Jepsen.

What was the first gig you ever went to?

As a child I played in the school concert band, so a lot of my first gigs were actually as a performer! However, I do have strong recollections of two formative gigs from my youth. The first big concert I went to was a Gilbert O'Sullivan show with my father in the UL Concert Hall. Some years later, the first large-scale gig I went to as an independent teenager was Tenacious D in the RDS. Not really sure what that combination says about me!

What was the first record you ever bought?

When I was younger I never had to buy records, as I would steal my older brother’s ones! However, an early one that I did buy myself, which really stands out, was A Grand Don't Come For Free, by The Streets. I literally wore my Discman out, playing that CD.

What’s your favourite song right now?

I'm pretty sure I've listened to Is U by Overmono about 12 billion times this year. It's telling that my second most played song on Tidal is the next song after that in the album, purely due to proximity.

Favourite lyric of all time?

I definitely can't pick just one, but a lyric that resonated with me recently was this verse from American rapper Ab-Soul's Do Better: "Risk the reward if that's how it has to be, Everything in my power to try to do what God would do, Ride the tide, don't fight with the current that guided you, Melt the ice 'round the furnace burnin' inside you, I gotta do better, I guided you better, There's nothin' they can do that I can't do better , Better yet, there's nothin' I can do that I can't do better, Yeah, I'm better."

If you could only listen to one song for the rest of your life, what would it be?

This feels like a trick question so I'm going to provide a trick answer. The American composer John Cage wrote a piece titled As Slow As Possible in 1987. It's a piece for organ, which is based around each note being sustained for as long as is physically possible on the instrument. It's currently being performed in a church in Germany and this performance of it is scheduled to end in 2640. That song.

Where can people find your music/more information?

All the usual places - Instagram, Twitter, Bandcamp, Spotify, etc. My new album, Red Blood Cells and Righteousness, is out now on Strange Brew Records and you can listen to it/buy it (please buy it) here.

Alan Corr