Far Caspian—the challenge of Irish musician Joel Johnston—at the moment shared his new single “An Outstretched Hand / Rain From Right here To Kerry” off his forthcoming new album Autofiction, due out July twenty fifth, 2025, by way of his personal Tiny Library Information (22º Halo, SOMOH). The chiming, expansive monitor is bolstered by speedy, energetic percussion and arrives with a self-directed video. The lyrics throughout Autofiction are Johnston’s most direct, diaristic and literal to this point, and “An Outstretched Hand / Rain From Right here To Kerry” isn’t any exception.
“This music ties two eventualities collectively. “An Outstretched Hand” is only a easy love music about having fun with time in a brand new relationship and having that feeling that point is at all times in opposition to you since you wish to spend all of it with the opposite particular person,” he explains. “It’s additionally a couple of day/night time again in 2014 when a gaggle of pals and I went all the way down to Kerry for my good friend’s birthday to hike up Carrauntoohil, which is the tallest mountain in Eire. A tough storm ultimately despatched us driving 8 hours again dwelling by means of the night time as a substitute. I bear in mind my good friend who drove requested me to vow not to go to sleep in order that he had firm the entire means. So I sat within the passenger seat whereas the others slept within the again. We have been pressured into it, however that drive ended up being actually particular. It felt like a kind of moments in life that can at all times be with you, particularly at that youthful age when the world feels prefer it’s in want of exploring.”
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“An Outstretched Hand / Rain From Right here To Kerry” follows the album’s shiny, heat lead single “First Day,” which earned help from Pitchfork (Selects), Consequence (Prime Songs of the Week), Guitar World (Editor’s Picks), Glide Journal, and extra. Autofiction is now accessible for pre-order, and Far Caspian will rejoice its launch with a run of US, UK, and EU headlining dates this fall that features stops at Brooklyn’s Music Corridor of Williamsburg (October 4th) and Los Angeles’ Echoplex (October seventeenth); see under for a present itinerary. Tickets are on-sale HERE.
Shortly after releasing his acclaimed 2023 LP The Final Remaining Gentle, Johnston arrange his personal recording studio in Leeds, the place he produces and mixes for various UK-based acts. This work with different artists, whereas unrelated to the album, proved to be an important step within the making of Autofiction. Whereas Far Caspian is carried out stay as a six-piece, Johnston has spent years writing, producing, and recording a full band manufacturing for all of it on his personal, and that started to take a psychological toll. With a mounting feeling of stress and stress, he practically determined to give up his personal challenge; however after producing albums for Inexperienced Gardens and Ellur, Johnston’s spark for Far Caspian reignited. Newly impressed to benefit from the course of, he returned to some demos he had began for Autofiction and accomplished nearly all of the album in January 2025.
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Johnston used his new studio expertise to method the making of the album with a contemporary mindset: “After producing Ellur, I used to be capable of simply say to myself: ‘I’m going to provide this Far Caspian album now. I’m presenting myself with these demos I’ve had for some time. Let me see what I can do with them as a producer, not as a songwriter.’” With influences starting from Damaged Social Scene to the Japanese band Supercar, the instrumentation of Autofiction feels gentle, textured, and at all times energetic. It was recorded solely in Johnston’s studio, the place he himself produced, combined, mastered, and performed each instrument heard on the LP. Liberating himself from any inner judgments or inhibitions, Johnston wrote songs for the album with a easy motto: “I’m having fun with this proper now and subsequently it’s ok.” The method helped him reconnect with the enjoyment of music, the explanation he began making it within the first place.
Far Caspian Reside Dates:
09/08 – Dublin, IE – The Grand Social
09/09 – Manchester, UK – Evening & Day Cafe
09/11 – London, UK – Scala
09/12 – Bristol, UK – Unusual Brew
09/13 – Brighton, UK – Inexperienced Door Retailer
09/17 – Paris, FR – La Maroquinerie
09/18 – Brussels, BE – Botanique Orangerie
09/19 – Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso Tollhuisten
09/22 – Berlin, DE – Silent Inexperienced
10/03 – Washington, DC – Union Stage
10/04 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Corridor of Williamsburg
10/07 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Corridor
10/08 – Minneapolis, MN – seventh Avenue Entry
10/10 – Denver, CO – Globe Corridor
10/13 – Seattle, WA – Madame Lou’s
10/14 – Portland, OR – Polaris Corridor
10/16 – San Francisco, CA – Bimbo’s 365 Membership
10/17 – Los Angeles, CA – Echoplex