Donegal singer-songwriter Seán Feeny today unveils his debut album Galactic Tides – an album steeped in history, heritage, and heartfelt storytelling.
The album arrives after singles ‘Galactic Tides’, ‘1969’ and ‘Western Roads’, which together earned extensive coverage across Ireland, the UK, Europe, the US and Canada (Hot Press, V13, The Irish News, Belfast Telegraph, RTÉ Radio 1, Red FM and more).
Across ten tracks, ranging from intimate folk reflections to expansive, cinematic arrangements, Galactic Tides weaves stories of migration, memory, identity, ancestry and home. Rooted in Ireland but reaching far beyond it, Feeny draws on family history, historical record, and the universal search for place and connection.
The album is produced by Feeny’s friend and long-time collaborator Orri McBrearty, with additional creative input and performances from a host of other Donegal talent, including Ruairí Friel (Silver Winged They Fly), Sarah Cullen (The Reflection Box), Tommy Callaghan (The Heads Of State) and Laura McFadden (Cello).
From the cosmic metaphor of the title track, to the ancestral journeys in ‘Western Roads’, to the intergenerational resilience of ‘1969’, Feeny explores how people carry stories across oceans, borders, and eras, and how those stories shape who we become.
The album is structured in two parts, low tide and high tide, reflecting both emotional ebb and flow and the album’s recurring themes of departure and return. Songs such as ‘Tír Mór’, ‘Wild Geese’ and ‘Bairneach’, and continue Feeny’s exploration of diaspora, nature, migration, and the quiet internal landscapes we navigate in times of change. The final track, ‘Human’, closes the album with a sense of resolution, underscoring that regardless of origin, identity, or outside perception, we are all connected by the simple truth of being human.
Seán said: “So much of this album is about movement, across countries, across generations, across the inner world. I grew up surrounded by stories of people leaving, people returning, people trying to figure out where they fit. The more I wrote, the more I realised these songs weren’t just about my family or Irish history, they were about anyone who’s ever felt uprooted or unanchored but kept going anyway. Galactic Tides became the language for that journey. These invisible forces, grief, hope, love, memory, pull us in ways we don’t always understand. But eventually they hopefully bring us somewhere that feels like home.”
Galactic Tides’ lyrical world spans galaxies, coastlines, mountains, train lines and city streets, while its sonic palette blends warm folk storytelling with spacious arrangements, layered harmonies and gentle atmospheric textures. The album sees Feeny collaborate with Donegal filmmaker Charlie Joe Doherty, whose videos for ‘1969’, ‘Western Roads’, and ‘Galactic Tides’ visually trace the album’s arc across both real and symbolic landscapes.
Galactic Tides positions Feeny as a compelling emerging voice, offering stories that feel rooted yet universal. Not only as a musical milestone for the artist, the album is a richly textured portrait of belonging in a world defined by movement and sense of place, offering a hand to anyone navigating their own tides, reminding us that even in moments of drift, we are never truly untethered.
DONEGAL SINGER-SONGWRITER
SEÁN FEENY RELEASES DEBUT ALBUM
GALACTIC TIDES
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