How I Became A Wave – announces self-titled debut album release for March

How I Became A Wave have announced the release of their self-titled debut album for 27 March 2026.

Two full band headline shows, at Coughlan’s, Cork (12 April) and The Unitarian Church, Dublin (17 April) are on sale now, in addition to upcoming supports with acclaimed US singer-songwriter Joan Shelley → Tickets here

To accompany the announcement, new single, ‘Sea Swell’, is released today – a song that grows with a quiet intensity, opening into a powerful full-band crescendo that has already become a standout moment in live shows.

Lush in strings and pedal steel, the nine-track How I Became A Wave album features contributions from some of Ireland’s most accomplished musicians, headed up by Pat Carey, and featuring string and piano arrangements by Cormac McCarthy (RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Iarla O’Lionáird).

How I Became A Wave will be available across all streaming platforms, as a digital download and as a 12″ gatefold vinyl – with limited edition signed copies available via Bandcamp – that brings together music and visual art, featuring cover artwork based on the original oil painting ‘Towards Pabaigh’ by Scottish artist Ellis O’Connor, design by West Cork creative Megan Clancy, insert image by Cork-based artist Leslie Allen Spillane, and handwritten liner notes and lyrics from Pat Carey, who steers How I Became A Wave as a collaborative, multidisciplinary project.

Pat Carey says: “At the heart of How I Became A Wave is a sense of collaboration – of connection between artists. Inviting artists of different disciplines into the creative process has been key to the journey. Understanding how other people see, hear and feel my work has been enlightening, affirming and vital, making sure that what we have created is a living body of work that I hope will continue to be expressed in changing ways.”

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Album track listing
You Always Had A Way With Words
Zero Sum
Cycles
05:00
Fading Out
Sea Swell
The Stray
Don’t Find Me
The Underside

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