Irish indie band Cronin has been busy during these corona times. They released mini album A View From The Next Door (with remixes of old songs), played with U2 and Glen Hansard in Ireland’s The Late Late Show special to raise money for The Simon Community, and appeared in the Julien Temple Documentary ‘Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan’. Now they come up with new work for the first time in two years: ‘Bank of Love’.

A love song that you can wash the dishes to

Mick Cronin about the process: “This was one of the first songs we started jamming to get the juices flowing after not seeing each other for 3 months when the first lockdown was lifted last year. We wanted to get back to the feeling of being a young band playing songs in a garage.

We were listening to a lot of Lou Reed’s Transformer, Richard Hawley, Jarv Is. We started it the night Scott Walker died and it took another form with the pandemic. A love song that you can wash the dishes to.”

Bank of Love was recorded at Transmission Rooms, Drumlish, Co Longford by Mick Cronin. Mixed by Ger McDonnell (U2, Manic Street Preachers) and Mastered by Richard Dowling at WAV Mastering, Limerick. It is the first single from the new album, scheduled to be released in mid-2021. This will be the second album after the critically acclaimed debut album The First Kiss of Love.

A few nice words on Cronin:

“Touches of Neil Diamond, Nick Cave, Richard Ashcroft.”

Steve Lamacq, BBC Radio 6

“Pure Celtic Soul.” 

Shane MacGowan, The Pogues 

Go check it out!

‘Bank of Love’ is now available as a digital single in our webshop. Or check it out on Spotify:

A year after the release of the album Everybody’s Lost And All I Want Is To Leave, Victories At Sea comes with a deluxe edition. With the reason to ease Covid’s burden, and of course also to celebrate the album’s one-year anniversary.

The band had spent so much energy and time on the album, creating something that was a total piece of music: something they were proud of and wanted to share with their fans, but suddenly they couldn’t. Shows were rescheduled and later even canceled.

During quarantine the three men played together at a distance: two in Birmingham, one in Liverpool. While playing Daniel Johnston’s “Some Things Last A Long Time”, they got a feeling they had never experienced together before. It provided a poignant moment that was so satisfying that this became the start of the Remote Apart Sessions, in which they play album tracks and covers.

To celebrate the anniversary of Everybody’s Lost And All I Want Is To Leave, Victories At Sea is releasing the full Remote Apart Sessions, including the Johnston cover and an alternate version of album opener ‘When The Dark’, as part of a deluxe edition from the album.

The band hopes to be able to play the album live. The shows are sure to come. In the meantime, enjoy the live sessions and the rest of the Deluxe Edition.

Live videos never seen before
On February 21st, never-before-seen live videos of a very special session at The Hare And Hounds in Brighton, will be released. In October, Victories At Sea was the only band to play at this venue since it closed in March 2020. The session will include the album tracks ‘Quiet House’, ‘Late’, ‘Midnight Song’ and ‘Breathe Slowly’ plus crowd favorite ‘On Your Own’ ‘and traditional show closing’ No Escape ‘. JP finds playing live and the existence of locations very important. “Spreading this live footage is almost not about the record, but about celebrating the things you used to take for granted.”

The mini-album has six songs. So far “There’s A Darkness” has received the most streams of all the songs from that album. So, that is now rewarded with a stylish clip. “Several Perceptions”, the first single from A View From The Next Room, already got a clip before.

The theme ‘darkness’ is clearly included in the video. But it has also a cool and relaxed atmosphere in it. The footage in the videoclip is composed of short videos on their tour in Norway, Dublin’s Olympia, The Stables Mullingar and some additional footage from Transmission Rooms Studio in Drumlish.

The band has received a lot of praise before. Johnny Depp, for example, is very fond of the Irish. Nick Cave also had only positive words: “You sound like me, but in tune.”

Cronin have just dropped a new ‘snipe mix’ of the single “Several Perceptions”. It’s a taster of their upcoming mini album, A View From The Next Room, due out July 3rd.

The brand new album delivers the band’s “most experimental and diverse” set of songs to date. On the making of A View From the Next Room, Mick Cronin says: “Some of these mixes have been about for some time and others are relatively fresh. With us unable to work in the studio we thought now would be a good time to release these as a mini album. “It’s a diverse mix compared to our releases so far, it shows another side of what we have in our heads.”

The album title is a reference to the Henry Scott Holland poem Death Is Nothing at All. Following their work on Cronin’s critically acclaimed debut album The First Kiss of Love, Karl Odlum (Glen Hansard, The Frames), Ger McDonnell (U2, Manic Street Preachers) and Mick Cronin return as producers.

Cronin have also brought in outside instrumentalists and special guests like The Waterboys, whose violinist Steve Wickham features on two tracks. In addition, Damien Rice cello player Vivienne Long features on track Need and Terry Edwards (PJ Harvey, Gallon Drunk) on the remix of Little London.

Across the album’s six interrogative tracks the band displays inspired lyrics, deep orchestral arrangements and lifting hooks.

For the album artwork, the band enlisted DJ, photographer and Oasis brother Paul Gallagher.

Today, Cronin announce A View From The Next Room. Out July 3rd on Live Transmission Records. The brand-new album delivers the band’s most experimental and diverse set of songs to date. It was recorded at Transmission Rooms Recording Studio in Longford, Ireland. Following their work on Cronin’s critically acclaimed debut album The First Kiss of Love, Karl Odlum (Glen Hansard, The Frames), Ger McDonnell (U2, Manic Street Preachers) and Mick Cronin return as producers. Cronin have also brought in outside instrumentalists and special guests like The Waterboys, whose violinist Steve Wickham features on two tracks. In addition, Damien Rice cello player Vivienne Long features on track Need and Terry Edwards (PJ Harvey, Gallon Drunk) on the remix of Little London. Across the album’s six interrogative tracks the band displays inspired lyrics, deep orchestral arrangements and lifting hooks. 

On the making of A View From the Next Room, Mick Cronin says:

“Some of these mixes have been about for some time and others are relatively fresh. With us unable to work in the studio we thought now would be a good time to release these as a mini album. It’s a diverse mix compared to our releases so far, it shows another side of what we have in our heads.”

You can pre-order the album soon!