For Those I Love announce new album Carving The Stone and Irish tour

For Those I Love, the brainchild of Dublin producer, visual artist and songwriter David Balfe, have announced the release of their second album, Carving The Stone for August 8 via September Recordings.

In support of the album, For Those I Love will tour Ireland for the first time, kicking off with a date in Belfast’s Limelight 2 on October 1 and wrapping up in Dublin’s 3Olympia on October 6, with stops in Cork, Listowel and Galway along the way.

Balfe also released the record’s new single ‘No Scheme’, described as a “spiritual successor” to the previous 2021 single 'Top Scheme' (which explored the intoxicating thrill of violence), it faces head on the mundanity of your early thirties when you’ve sold your soul.

Check out ‘No Scheme’ below:

Speaking of the themes of the new single, Balfe said: “Anchored by the same chaos as 'Top Scheme', 'No Scheme' trades some of its anger for despondency, its rage for reflection, while never fully leaving that original fire behind. Like much of the album it comes from, whenever it points the finger outwardly, it points it back inwardly too.

“Hypocrisy, complacency, and culpability are all present, but so too is a search for justice or meaning in an increasingly confusing time. A great deal has changed since I wrote it, but I feel as committed as ever to sharing it with you all."

The new single follows For Those I Love's acclaimed return last month with ‘Of The Sorrows’, which marked the follow-up to his 2021 self-titled and 2022 Choice Music Prize winner.

Balfe is also set to play a show at this year’s Electric Picnic festival on Saturday 30, as well as four dates across the UK in September.

Tickets for For Those I Love’s Irish tour dates go on sale this Friday, July 4 at 10am. Click here for more information.

Carving The Stone is available for pre-order here.

Find the full tracklist below:

1. 'Carving The Stone'
2. 'No Quiet'
3. 'No Scheme'
4. 'The Ox / The Afters'
5. 'Civic'
6. 'Mirror'
7. 'This Is Not The Place I Belong'
8. 'Of The Sorrows'
9. 'I Came Back To See The Stone Had Moved'