Release: Fionn Regan - Cala

Fionn Regan

Release date: Friday, August 9th 2019
IONN REGAN - CALA
(Abbey Records)
Bertus Distributie

The opening line of Cala’s opening song, ‘Collar Of Fur’, combines elemental and romantic imagery with an equally luminescent melody and subtly keening vocal set like jewels in delicately fingerpicked acoustic guitar and “atmospherics”. The scene is set for a spine-tingling spell of a record, named after the Spanish word for ‘cove’, bathed in the balmy rays of summer and the iridescent light of that August moon.

  Ten songs and 35 minutes long, Cala is a concise statement but with deep pockets to tumble into, drawn by Regan’s drowsy beauty and nuanced narratives.

 

It’s been this way with Regan, give or take the odd detour into busier/band territory, since his 2006 album debut The End Of History. As it happens, Regan hears a link in Cala’s tone and setting to that first record. Both albums were written at Regan’s home in Bray, on Dublin’s coastal outskirts, which might partly explain Cala’s recurring imagery: stars, moon,

ocean, sun...

 

Over the course of five sublime albums (Cala is his sixth), the man who has been nominated for Mercury, Choice, Meteor Ireland and Shortlist awards, sampled by Bon Iver, tattooed on actor Rhys Ifans’ arm (the lyric "Be good or be gone"), and made an honorary member of the Trinity College Literary Society knows that rewards and recognition don’t come close to what truly matters. “I’m just so lucky to play music,” Regan says. And we’re so lucky to have him.

 

Tracklist: 1. Collar of Fur02:31 2. Head Swim02:57 3. Riverside Heights02:36 4. The Ocean Wave04:24 5. Volca03:19 6. Cala03:56 7. Brass Locket02:52 8. Hunting Dog04:55 9. Glaciers03:31 10. Under the Waves / Tokyo03:47

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