The Swell Season’s long-awaited and anticipated new album, Forward, has just been released, marking the acclaimed duo of Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová’s first full-length since 2009. Produced by Sturla Mio Thorisson and recorded at his and Irglova’s Masterkey Studios in Iceland, the album has been earning praise and support from NPR Music, No Depression, and WXPN’s World Cafe.
Irglova explains the albums title, “We called the album Forward, because the word kept coming up in a few of the songs we had been working on during our three studio sessions. What it meant to us in the context of the album title was the old familiar energy in new material born out of re-connecting as old friends in new circumstances”
The Oscar-winning duo have also shared a video for the piano-driven track “I Leave Everything To You,” which you can see below, filmed in Iceland by Irglova and Thorisson.
Forward is now available in stores and across all platforms.