Mick Flannery debuts at No.1 on Independent Chart with The House Must Win

Mick Flannery’s latest album The House Must Winhas debuted at No.1 on the Independent Chart, as well as No. 13 on the overall album charts.

Released last Friday, it features an array of special guest artists, including Anaïs Mitchell, Jeffrey Martin, Jenn Grant, Lisa Hannigan, and Susan O'Neill, and Mick’s brothers Brian, David, and Eamonn Flannery.

The House Must Win includes reimaginings of songs from his 2005 debut album Evening Train, alongside 10 new songs and orchestrations that span the full story of his stage production of the same name.

 

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It was rated 8.5/10 by Hot Press and crowned Album of the Month for May, saying that the “20-track collection vibrates with two decades’ worth of love, care and attention.”

Flannery is set to perform the album in full over two summer evenings in Vicar St., on June 25 and 26.

Speaking to Hot Press’ Will Russell ahead of the special gigs, the musician explained that he was going to perform “as two album launch nights, where we’ll sing through the songbook of the musical with lots of special guests, and with the band that has been on the project the whole time.”

Check out The House Must Win below: