Regan, Fionn: O Avalanche (Coloured Vinyl LP)

Fionn Regan’s 2024 album O Avalanche, available on vinyl for the first time.

“I float sometimes when you’re around,” sings Irish singer-songwriter Fionn Regan on “Islands”, setting the weightlessly romantic tenor for his seventh album. Written in Spain, 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.

Co-produced with Ian Grimble, O Avalanche steers Regan’s off-the-main-drag feel for climate and landscape towards another creative peak, forging a record to lose yourself in. “It’s like you’re looking into this world where there’s a depth of field, it’s summer, and you’re floating into and out of it,” he says of the album. “The songs can come together in the moment, so it’s not a conscious thing, but when I listen to the record it feels like there’s an eternal optimism about it – a kind of upward-feeling energy.” With the gentlest of touches, O Avalanche will sweep you off your feet.

White vinyl version.

1. ISLANDS
2. TEIX MOUNTAINS
3. O AVALANCHE (Featuring Anna Friel)
4. BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WINE
5. ANJA I
6. ANJA II
7. FAREWELL
8. INTO THE LIGHT OF THE SUN
9. HEADPHONES
10. SWIMMING THE LAKES / FLOWERS AND STONES
11. DEIA SONG / LLUCALCARI