Before Donal O'Mahony and Carol Keogh were in now-defunct No Disco favourites The Plague Monkeys, and before multi-instrumentalist Diarmuid Mac Diarmada was in The Jimmy Cake and the David Kitt band, the three had a wee musical project called The Low Babies. Then, loads of things happened. Now, older, wiser and all musically accomplished in their own rights, the three are together again, this time as brand-spanking-new group The Tycho Brahe.

Based in their collective hometown of Dublin and named for the mathematician infamous for having a metal nose (no we don't think it's necessarily musically relevant since you ask), their debut album This Is, lovingly home-recorded entirely in Donal's front room, is characterised more than anything by its diversity: there's everything from loud city-noise post-hip-hop to electronic string-laden sea songs to Bacharach-inspired swingies with eh, weird vocals that sound like monkeys. Neat!

This Is: well, see what you think it is yourself... by listening to three exclusive tracks, below:

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To find out more, watch a video or buy a copy of This Is, go to http://www.thetychobrahe.com