With Signed Print. Signed. UPC: 5053760137764 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. His first since 2019's beautiful Cala , it's also an album that is, in Fionn's words, "very much on a level" - shimmering with poetic mystery and bolstered by a sustained feel for atmosphere and shape. As Fionn explains, "I see it sort of like a film that starts cinematically and develops in abstract ways. It moves in different sequences, backwards and forwards. And if you're thinking about it in a visual way, there's a quality about it where it's always magic hour." Rippling like the sea, "Islands" sets that magic-hour mood, using images of the sun and moonlit dances on Spanish sand to set a dreamy scene. Buoyant and urgent, the song introduces the record's world with a kind of classicist immediacy; it seems to arrive fully formed, as if the space it evokes is eternal. "When I wrote that song it was like there was something cosmic about it, because it doesn't sound like my other songs," says Fionn. "I felt like it was almost a gift from The Beatles or whatever wellspring they drew on. I remember being in Mallorca and thinking, 'Were The Beatles ever here?' Not that I'm saying it's on their level but it has some sort of cosmic flow to it." That flow leads to Valencia for the luminous "Teix Mountain", which evokes the off-piste mountain spirit of its title and the album ...