The Olympia Theatre, Dublin: Friday 6th December, 2019.
Plus special guests, ROSIE CARNEY & EMMET KIRWAN
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Tickets from β¬24 Incl. booking fee.
Doors 7pm
βA lot of this new record was written in transit,β says Eoin French, the Irish artist better known as Talos. βBeing away from the safety of my home and my studio allowed me to really take the shackles off and create in a different way. It was a terrifying feeling sometimes, but it was also really rewarding.βWhile Talos will always be deeply connected to his native Ireland, his stunning sophomore album, βFar Out Dust,β draws on a far wider perspective, melding tracks written and recorded in New York, Los Angeles, London, Dublin, Cork, and Reykjavik. The influence of the unknown runs deep here, invigorating Frenchβs haunting blend of organic and electronic music with a gorgeous sense of discovery and wonder. But where Talosβ acclaimed debut, βWild Alee,β was a solitary affair about isolation and escape, βFar Out Dustβ finds French and his longtime production partner, Ross Dowling (James Vincent McMorrow, Bell X1), branching out to explore new sounds and spaces, teaming up with a slew of collaborators including producers Doug Schadt (Maggie Rogers, Wet) and Valgeir SigurΓ°sson (Sigur Ros, Feist), drummer Ian Chang (Son Lux), and mixer Damian Taylor (Bjork, Arcade Fire).
The result is both Frenchβs most confident songwriting and his most sophisticated studio work yet, an album that oscillates between hushed introspection and explosive ecstasy as it grapples with the pain of doubt and regret.βThe only way to make this album was to open the doors up,β explains French. βI knew I wanted to bring in people who had very different expertise than I had, people who were better players and better producers who could really push me.βPart of that bold new outlook stemmed from the remarkable success of βWild Alee,β which was met with such a rapturous critical and commercial response that French was able to leave his second life as an architect and university lecturer behind and devote himself to touring and recording full time. Hailed by the Irish Times as βa spectacularly assured debut,β the album was met with raves on both sides of the pond upon its release in 2017, with The Independent calling it βstunningβ and the New York Timesβ T Magazine praising the songsβ βtaut, chilling complexity.β In addition, the record garnered love from BBC Radio 1, racked up more than 25 million streams on Spotify, made the shortlist for the prestigious RTΓ Choice Music Prize for Irish Album of the Year, and earned Talos (which performs live as a six-piece) a sold-out release tour along with festival appearances, including Electric Picnic, Latitude, All Together Now and more; tours with Aurora, Peter, Bjorn and John and Editors, plus, in April and May 2019, debut headline tours of the US, the UK and EU, and four dates in China.
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