The ever-changing state of the city, personal upheaval and a comforting nostalgia all came to influence the band’s third studio album.
Dublin collective Black Bank Folk have announced that their third studio album, entitled Echoes on the Street, will be released on 22nd August.
Friday, 25 April 2024 -On the set of the shoot for their upcoming video release the band reflected on what drove the album this time around. “The album was born out of a real time of flux both in our personal lives as well as in the country as a whole.” Jimmy said of a writing process that began in a pre-covid world and continued right through lockdown and beyond. “The universal thread that weaves through the songs is the struggle between contrasting extremes that change can bring about, and I suppose the comfort that can be gained from looking to the past-without letting it hold you back, getting bogged down in some kind of self-damaging nostalgia.”
The album was recorded and produced by their long-term collaborator Gavin Glass and marks another step in the evolving sound of the band since their 2016 debut release, Rising. “We feel this album really takes up the baton from where we were heading with our previous releases, we’re proud of this sound and these songs and can’t wait for people to hear them”.
Double vinyl Echoes On The Street available from our shop