I Plead Irony

I Plead Irony are a UK alternative rock trio built on more than two decades of friendship and musical chemistry. Rauf Jordan (bass/vocals), Paul McDonald (guitar/backing vocals) and Lawrence Arnold (drums/backing vocals) have played together since around 2004, forming I Plead Irony in 2011. Their music sits broadly within alternative rock, drawing on punk and blues while resisting easy formulas. Melody, power, vulnerability and unpredictability coexist in songs developed collaboratively and allowed to find their own shape. That approach has produced three albums: "This Statement Is False", "The Solution Is The Problem" and "This Monologue Conversation". Their third album took the longest route to completion. Mostly recorded before the pandemic, progress eventually stopped and, for a time, so did the band. But the songs refused to go away. Returning years later revealed that lyrics written before the pandemic had acquired new meaning. Themes of conformity, fear, identity and progress resonated differently. The songs hadn’t changed; the world around them had. Completed in 2025, "This Monologue Conversation" brings together eleven songs spanning different periods of the band’s life. For all the heavier ideas, I Plead Irony remain three long-time friends getting together, taking the piss out of each other and trying to make the best music they can. They always talk about the difficult second album. I Plead Irony managed to make the difficult third one instead.