Fionn Regan Releases New Album ‘O Avalanche’; Shares Video for Title Track

Acclaim for O Avalanche:

“Retreating to Mallorca to write this seventh studio album has evidently helped open up alluring new sonic vistas… The textures of 2019’s Cala have been superseded by

an almost ghostly atmosphere, as echo-swathed, lysergic-sounding reveries evoke spellbinding romantic visions.” – Uncut, 8/10

“Gorgeous… tender songs built on exquisite folk atmospherics that shimmer like early Bon Iver or sprawl like vintage Fleet Foxes.” – MOJO

“Magnificent… O Avalanche’s songs fit perfectly as a suite of music and will no doubt be magic when played live. Highly recommended.” – Hot Press, 8/10

“Sublime… the musician’s seventh album is simply a beautiful piece of work.” – Irish Times, 9/10

“Immersive, evocative and magical… O Avalanche is beautifully delivered and shows the depth and the shimmering poetic lyricism that Regan has garnered a reputation for… Fionn’s most captivating and compelling work to date.” – Clash, 8/10

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Fionn Regan today releases his much anticipated and highly acclaimed new album O Avalanche via Nettwerk (LISTEN HERE). To celebrate the occasion Regan has shared a stunning video for the album’s luminous title track on which his long-standing friend Anna Friel provides beautifully delivered vocals for an almost hallucinatory hymn to companionship. Anna Friel also features in the video which Regan directed himself. Click HERE to watch!

Commenting on the track Regan says: “This song is a unique song on the album. It has a classic sound which is quite expansive. There’s an atmosphere in the song that I don’t think any of my songs have had before. Which is mysterious in its own way and reminds me of roads at night in Deia and the quality of the light there. Anna Friel is the only other artist on the album and sings on the song so beautifully. She brings a level of magic to the song that only she could.”

Of the video Regan adds: “After a year of capturing footage across Spain, Berlin, Ireland and Copenhagen, this video embodies a sense of dreamlike poetry. Anna Friel brings an otherworldly quality and her presence is always captivating.”

Fionn Regan has previously shared the singles “Islands”, “Headphones”, “Blood is Thicker Than Wine” and “Farewell” from O Avalanche. 

“I float sometimes when you’re around,” sings Regan on “Islands”, setting the weightlessly romantic tenor for his seventh album. Written in Mallorca, O Avalanche is an album of levitating intimacies, abstract and intuitive yet infused with a tangible sense of the elevating ties between environment and emotion. Between its sun-dappled backdrops and lambent arrangements, the result is a set of sublime songs and something more: it’s a record to float with, immersive, uplifting and transporting.

His first since 2019’s beautiful Cala, it’s also an album that is, in Regan’s words, “very much on a level” – shimmering with poetic mystery and bolstered by a sustained feel for atmosphere and shape. As Regan explains, “I see it sort of like a film that starts cinematically and develops in abstract ways. It moves in different sequences, backwards and forwards. And if you’re thinking about it in a visual way, there’s a quality about it where it’s always magic hour.”

Regan has fine-tuned a sensibility of his own since the acoustic poetry of his debut album, 2006’s Mercury-shortlisted The End of History. Since then, he has travelled between band-based detours and the gleaming likes of 2011’s 100 Acres of Sycamore, whose worry-worn beauty “Dogwood Blossom” drew new audiences when it found kindred spirits in two TV shows, romantic lockdown hit Normal People and Shane Meadows’s This Is England 86. Oscar-winning actor Cillian Murphy featured in the video for 2017’s “The Meeting Of The Waters” while elsewhere Regan has been nominated for Choice, Meteor Ireland and Shortlist awards, sampled by Bon Iver, photographed by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair and made an honorary member of the Trinity College Literary Society. “I feel really lucky in the sense that the music I make has its own climate or landscape,” says Regan.

O Avalanche album artwork and tracklist: