OLIVER COLE - Wingspan - CD

CD

Following the acclaim he received for his 2020 album Father, Brother, Son, which was named RTE Album of the Week, Newstalk Album of the Week, and Irish Times Album of the Week, Cole delivers another immersive musical journey. He describes Wingspan as less direct than his other albums, more of a stream of consciousness approach.

‘The songs are more like faded photographs, vignettes viewed through foggy windows. There is meaning and truth there but it must be deciphered and interpreted by the listener’

The songs for Wingspan were recorded in Oliver’s back garden studio, The Cole Shed, which he built during the Covid pandemic. With the help of long-term friends and collaborators Gav Fox (Turn, Idlewild, Sack), Graham Hopkins (The Frames, Glen Hansard, Therapy, Dolores O’Riordan), Jason Oglesby, and Leila Keeney, Oliver recorded and self-produced the album.

Oliver describes the recording process as long and challenging, with numerous crises of confidence moments leading to long breaks and abandoned songs. Ultimately, it was Oliver’s long-time friend and mixing engineer, Ciaran Bradshaw, who stepped in and helped complete the album.

Tracklist: 

1. Put Out The Fire
2. Courage Dries Up
3. Wingspan
4. Please Let It Go
5. High And Low
6. Hoping We Can Make It Through
7. Nothing Left To Lose
8. Your Face In The Morning
9. I Love You
10. First Time In Your Life