Villagers - That Golden Time

Released 10th May 2024

Following the kaleidoscopic adventure of Villagers fifth album Fever Dreams, award-winning Dublin singer-songwriter-instrumentalist-dramatist Conor OBrien returns with the intimate inventory, That Golden Time, set for release on May 10th.

After the band-centred sessions of its predecessor, That Golden Times solo-centric core was not forced on OBrien by lockdown. For me, That Golden Time has an internalised voice, so much so that I almost found it impossible to let anyone else in, he says. Its probably the most vulnerable album Ive made. I played and recorded everything in my apartment, and finally, towards the end, invited people in. Invites went out to, among others, Irish legend Dnal Lunny [Planxty, The Bothy Band] on bouzouki, American songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Peter Broderick on violin, and a group of players that OBrien had first seen performing in a tribute to one of his great loves, Italian composer