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Ye Vagabonds – Announce New Album ‘All Tied Together’ + release ‘On Sitric Road’

Multi-award-winningband Ye Vagabonds release their fourth album, and third for Rough Trade’s River Lea label, ‘All Tied Together’ on Jan 30th 2026.  Listen to the first single from the album ‘On Sitric Road’.  The video for the single is a live version recorded at the Lilliput Press bookshop in Stoneybatter, Dublin.

Recorded live in a house in Galway, with acclaimed producer Philip Weinrobe (Big Thief, Adrianne Lenker) at the helm, the powerful and cinematic album features deeply evocative original songs infused with memory, tribute, and gratitude. Throughout, a strong sense of home prevails, both their own hard-won digs, past and present, and an inner refuge for anyone longing for connection beyond time and geography. “All these songs have addresses,” says co-frontman Diarmuid Mac Gloinn. “They’re about specific locations and specific people.” The brothers cite fiction writers George Saunders and Claire Keegan as particular inspirations on this record.

The brotherly harmonies and multi-instrumental abilities of Diarmuid and Brían Mac Gloinn were joined on ‘All Tied Together’ by multi-instrumentalists Shahzad Ismaily (Laura Viers, Cass McCombs) who flew over from Brooklyn, Alain Mc Fadden, Caimin Gilmore, Kate Ellis, Sam Amidon, Romain Bly and Louise Gaffney.

While initially achieving renown as purveyors of their ancestors’ music mixed with folk-based originals, the Mac Gloinn brothers – Brían and Diarmuid – have increasingly focused on honing their own material, enlisting trusted co-conspirators to distil voice and vision into potent tunes. They have brought their interpretation of the Irish folk tradition to global audiences, going from Trad sessions to touring with the likes of Hozier and boygenius.  

The band will spend the rest of 2025 touring including US dates supporting I’m With Her, EU and Ireland shows. In 2026 they’ll headline the Roundhouse in London alongside further international dates now announced. 

‘All Tied Together’follows the duo’s previous acclaimed 2022 album ‘Nine Waves’ and standalone single ‘I’m A Rover’, which won them an RTE Radio One Folk Award for Best Traditional Folk Track. Ye Vagabonds were also named Best Folk Group for the second time at the 2021 ceremony, where they hold the record for most awarded artists.

‘All Tied Together’ is the tenth album to be released by River Lea (run by Geoff Travis, Jeannette Lee and Tim Chipping) following records by Lisa O’Neill, Brìghde Chaimbeul, John Francis Flynn, a compilation of Irish music from the archives compiled by Lankum’s Ian Lynch, Sam Amidon, Poor Creature and Ye Vagabond’s previous albums ‘The Hare’s Lament’ and ‘Nine Waves’.

Pre-Order the album – https://yevagabonds.ffm.to/alltiedtogether

‘On Sitric Road’ single FFM – https://yevagabonds.ffm.to/onsitricroad

Ian Mc Donnell

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