Little Green Car's Absolute Zero

The Dublin band releases their first album, fives years in the making

From the LifeMInute team

Dublin five-piece Little Green Cars have been making rural rock music together for years, however it wasn't until this past spring that they dropped their first album, Absolute Zero.

Starting out as a garage band with dreams of winning the local battle of the bands competition, the group got a go at songwriting when they were just seventeen and eighteen.

Lead singer Stevie Appleby describes those years as a "very turbulent and stressful time" in anyone's life. "We wanted to make something that was relatable to people going though the same things we were going through," he says.

Faye O'Rourke the band's sole female member also lent her teenage tribulations to tracks like "My Love Took Me Down to the River to Silence Me".

"I had written some lyrics kind of in a poem when I was thirteen or fourteen," says the singer, "It was just really interesting because it was something I forgotten that I had done. So I went back over it to make something out of it."

The quintet, who ultimately lost the battle of the bands back in the day, has five years later really gone on to make something of themselves. Now signed to Glassnote Records, the same label as Mumford & Sons, they've played gigs like Chicago's Lollapalooza, Montreal's Osheaga and even Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

With their school days behind them and an album under their belts, what is their advice for aspiring artist?

"Believe in what you [are] doing and if you truly believe in what you are doing it doesn't matter what anyone thinks because you will get your own fulfillment out of it," says Appleby.

He admits they've struggled to not strive for everyone's approval, but encourages other to "just believe in what you do and look for satisfaction through your art."

Find more about Little Green Cars at http://littlegreencars.co.uk/.