Acclaimed Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard is set to release his new album, All That Was East Is West Of Me Now, this Friday 20 October.

A record that is noisy, meditative, sprawling and hypnotic, it's pipped to be Hansard’s most rollicking LP since Burn the Maps-era The Frames.

Hansard performed a track from the project, 'There’s No Mountain' , on Jimmy Kimmel earlier this month. The song is centred around the inspirational sentiment “there's no mountain great or small that you can't climb,"  pointing forward to the virtue of simply pressing on, despite cataclysms global and personal that might challenge any stable orbit.

Watch Hansard’s performance below

The recording of All That Was East Is West of Me Now came together in the weeks that followed Hansard’s November 2022 hometown residency and was produced by long time co-conspirator David Odlum at his home studio on the outskirts of Dublin.

The process of recording, as of songwriting, “must be an intuitive leap into what feels right…” says Hansard, “When it feels right, I usually run from it, mix it quickly before it collapses.”

For the bulk of the record, Hansard was joined in the studio by fellow Frames members Joseph Doyle, Graham Hopkins, Ruth O’Mahony Brady, Rob Bochnik and honorary Frame Earl Harvin. Strings came courtesy from fellow live contributors Gareth Quinn Redmond, Kate Ellis, Paula Hughes, Katie O’Connor and Una O’Kane.

At the end of this month Hansard will embark on a six-week run of European shows, including a sold-out date at Dublin’s Vicar Street just before Christmas. For more information on upcoming dates, including tickets, click here.