Singular Artists proudly presents The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die live for a headline show at The Grand Social, Dublin on Wednesday, 12th November 2025. Tickets on sale Friday, 25th July at 10am from www.singularartists.ie
Sometimes, the best place to begin is at the end. If you really want to dig deep into Illusory Walls, the fourth album by The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am NoLonger Afraid To Die, it definitely helps to do that. That’s because epic closer “Fewer Afraid”—all 19 minutes, 44 seconds of it—doesn’t just revisit the themes and ideas on the ten songs that precede it, but also offers a self-aware summary of the Connecticut band’s entire history. It’s the conclusion of all the stories within the record as well as a nod to all the lives that helped make them—little glimpses of everything that’s come before, on both a micro, immediate level, and a more universal one.
“That song is a higher level look at my whole life and the whole world,”explains vocalist/guitarist David F. Bello, “as well as the album, our band, and our discography. It places the band in the context of the rest of the world as if we’re listening to everything that came before. It touches on all the themes of the previous songs, but there are also callbacks to songs from earlier in our career. But in this song, they’re the object, not the subject—I’m talking about a world in which these things happen, not talking about these things happening.”
“The idea of that song seemed easy enough,” adds guitarist Chris Teti, “because we thought we’d just have to play the same thing over and over again for a kind of Explosions In The Sky-type effect. But it was incredibly difficult to make a vocal work over it, and it took a long time. We did the entirety of our previous LP in about three weeks, and we spent at least a couple weeks just on that one song. It was a crazy endeavor.”
THE WORLD IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE & I AM NO LONGER AFRAID TO DIE
ANNOUNCE TWO IRISH HEADLINES FOR NOVEMBER 2025
DEER’S HEAD, BELFAST | TUESDAY, 11TH NOVEMBER 2025
THE GRAND SOCIAL, DUBLIN | WEDNESDAY, 12TH NOVEMBER 2025
Tickets from €20.00 including booking fee will go on sale Friday, 25th July at 10amfrom www.singularartists.ie