109: Fionn Regan - O AVALANCHE (ft. Anna Friel)

Apologies for dropping off the radar for a little while there. After reaching 100+ posts I needed a little breather and figured most of you would have some catch-up listening to do...

I spent the weekend wandering around Copenhagen, colourful Scandinavian buildings against mostly grey Autumnal skies, but strangely warm in spite of the season. I guess the world is changing.

One of the records that fit neatly into those slightly tilted, unbalanced landscapes was the new one from Fionn Regan, the Irish songwriter who peaked critically on his 2006 debut but has carried on regardless, trudging through the years, collar turned up to the brisk Irish wind.

His new album is beautiful, perhaps his best since that breakthrough nearly twenty-years ago. It was written in Majorca, and thus finds its own sense of woozy variance, occasional moments of heat and summer exuberance folded into his earthy, otherwise muted tones.

The title-track, released the same day as the album, is indicative of this push-and-pull. It was written in the Majorcan home of Anna Friel, Fionn's good friend and an actor British followers of certain age will know for things far away from this world. Friel provides swirling backing vocals, joining Fionn as he sings tenderly of what it means, and what it takes, to rise, fall, lose control and then rise again.

"I believe there's a light that brings good souls together, I believe there's a light that pulls you from the darkness," they sing, as the something like sunshine warms the edges of the evening, a timely reminder that it finds a way back, whether we remember to remember that most basic of facts.

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