The Swell Season, the Oscar-winning folks duo of Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, have introduced their first new album in 16 years: Ahead arrives June 13. They’ve additionally shared the brand new music “Caught in Reverse” with a black-and-white music video of the 2 performing the monitor in a small bar. Take a look at that Anthony Mulcahy–directed visible beneath.
The follow-up to 2009’s Strict Pleasure was produced by Sturla Mio Thorisson and boasts eight songs, together with the beforehand launched single “Folks We Used to Be.” “It felt proper to title the report Ahead as a result of it’s a reunion of kinds, however we’re not going backwards,” stated Irglová. “Each of us have grown and altered; we’re elsewhere and attending to know one another once more as the brand new folks we’ve develop into.”
“After our whirlwind that led as much as the Oscars and after, we had been so busy and with that got here a stress that neither of us significantly wished, and finally we type of drifted in the midst of all of that tough work and celebration. We remained good associates, serving to on one another’s information, maintaining with one another’s households. Whereas touring my final report, I spotted I simply missed her. I keep in mind calling Markéta and saying, ‘Do you are feeling like doing a little gigs?’” stated Hansard. “From there the concept was to perform a little recording and never put any stress on it, simply see what occurs, and abruptly we discovered ourselves making a report.”
Hansard and Irglová teamed up for his or her debut album, 2006’s The Swell Season, earlier than starring within the 2007 film As soon as, wherein they carry out numerous the report’s tracks because the movie’s romantic leads. The indie film’s word-of-mouth hype catapulted it, in addition to the Swell Season, to fame, with the duo incomes the Academy Award for Finest Authentic Tune with “Falling Slowly.” Revisit Pitchfork’s 2008 interview with Hansard and Irglová days after the Swell Season’s Oscar win.
