The Blizzards front man, author, and mental health campaigner Bressie has announced the release of The Place That Has Never Been Wounded, a classical piano-led album.
The new record, which is released on Icelandic label INNI on 24 October, marks a radical new departure for the singer and celebrates "stillness, discomfort, mindfulness, and the power of creative expression".
The Place That Has Never Been Wounded features "14 carefully crafted piano compositions, gently framed by atmospheric strings and immersive ambient details".
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Bressie has already released two singles, The Credence Frequency and Be The Sky, from the album and will also embark on a nationwide album launch tour.
"There's an awful lot about my life that I can't really express," says Bressie, who is currently studying for a PhD in Trinity College, Dublin. "Things that I find really difficult to understand, or to put into words. And those are the things I put into music."
The Place That Has Never Been Wounded was recorded at Camden Recording Studios in Dublin over five days with the help of friend and producer Eliot James (Bloc Party, Two Door Cinema Club, Petr Aleksander).
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"I've learned in my own life that you can't avoid the things that make you uncomfortable," says Bressie. "This record is meant to help people sit with that - the good, the bad, and the ugly of life. A soundtrack that lets you sit with it all."
The new album will be accompanied by a book of the same name, with ach track named after one chapter, and each of the four acts - The Polaris Principles, Duchas, Metta, and The Place That Has Never Been Wounded - is titled after one of its core concepts inspired by the work of Meister Eckhart, a 13th century German Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher and mystic.
"A line I use in the spoken word is we've become so busy chasing a life that we've ultimately missed living it," Breslin adds.
"And that's what this album's about - living what's in front of you. Even if what's in front of you isn't particularly nice - live it. That's the goal of this record, really."
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