Glen Hansard announces second volume of Don+t Settle - Transmissions East & West

Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard has announced the second volume of his new album, Don+t Settle - Transmissions East & West, set for release on June 26, and shares new single 'Revelate (Funkhaus Version)'.

Recorded over two nights last year in Berlin's Funkhaus - a historic former radio facility - the album's 20-song track list features live reinterpretations of songs from across his career. It includes materials from his four solo albums, his work with The Frames, and The Swell Season, a collaboration with his Once co-star Markéta Irglová.

"'Relevate' is an arms to the sky plea for an intervention," Hansard explains.

"At a time of great disappointment and disillusionment, I needed an answer. Was everything I ever wished for and actively moved towards suddenly gone from my grasp?"

"It was the early 90's and we, The Frames, had just been unceremoniously let go - dropped - from Island Records. That was a shock and a huge injury. I'd been signed by the legendary Chris Blackwell to Island Records just two years previous, and all of my interactions with him were incredibly positive. I later discovered Chris had semi-retired and we were simply part of a general clean-up or clear-out that happens occasionally in companies that are bought, sold and reconstructed all the time."

"What they overlook, or choose not to see, are the young lives and dreams directly affected by 'it's just business'. No one was going to tell me when we were done. And we dealt with the earthquake the way any artist must: we wrote our way through it. 'Revelate' was the first single from our second self-funded album, Fitzcarraldo. Every song is a 'fuck you'  to anyone who dismissed us. I stand by it and sing it proudly to this day."

Hansard recently wrapped a European & UK headline tour in support of the first volume. He has several remaining dates, including an in-store performance and signing at Tower Records in Dublin on July 1, and a show at Trinity College in Dublin on July 2 as part of Trinity's Summer Series.