Just last month 'The Thin Air' shared ‘Bang’, the lead single from Breakin’ Out, the new album by Dublin’s Glimmermen. Calling it a “markedly more linear yet no less distinct and ear-grabbing effort from the four-piece”, it reinforced our belief that the band – whose debut EPSatellite People caught our attention back in 2012 – had something different and potentially quite vital to their collective bow. As it so happens, Breakin’ Out confirms that fact in assured fashion, each of the release’s nine tracks threading together to form an effort where the major key and quietly emphatic cogitations on the everyday meld to form a refreshingly optimistic album bursting with real heart and instant, carefully-considered songwriting.
Have an exclusive first stream of the album below...
Glimmermen return with their second album “Breakin’ Out” on June 17th. Recorded at The Meadow in Wicklow by The Deaf Brothers (Rian Trench & Robert Watson) at the beginning of 2016, the album features nine songs and will be available on vinyl CD and digital download/streaming.
The band will be playing shows to mark the release – a Tower Records in-store performance on Friday, June 17th, followed by a launch party at The Grand Social on June 18th and will hit Galway’s Roisin Dubh on June 22nd.
The full tracking listing of “Breakin’ Out”:
1. Be Careful 2. Bang 3. Children 4. All I Lack 5. Chasin’ The Pin 6. Don’t Look Down 7. Alluvium 8. Ragged City 9. Sun Come Up
Glimmermen will play the Global Green stage at
Electric Picnic 2015 on September 5th. The band are busy working on material for their second record due out 2016 and looking forward to airing the new songs at the gig.
Check out a clip of the band performing "Angels and Devils" at the Roisin Dubh in Galway in March:
