After releasing last month's standalone single "People We Used to Be", featuring a companion video, folk rock duo The Swell Season (Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová) have announced their first album in nearly 16 years, titled Forward, due out June 13 via ATC.

They've also shared a video for new single "Stuck in Reverse". Watch below:

Produced by Irglová's husband Sturla Mio Thorisson and recorded at their Masterkey Studios in Iceland, the eight song collection features original Swell Season members Marja Gaynor and Bertrand Galen (strings) and Joseph Doyle (bass), alongside newcomer Piero Perelli (drums and percussion).

"In any situation of letting go, moving on is clearly the right and natural thing to do,” explains Hansard of the song. “This song speaks to that part of us that can’t quite get there. The moment just before complete acceptance.”

“It felt right to title the record ‘Forward’ because it’s a reunion of sorts, but we’re not going backwards,” Irglová says. “Both of us have grown and changed; we’re in different places and getting to know each other again as the new people we’ve become.”

Hansard and Irglova were the stars and songwriters of 2007 Irish musical romance Once, which went onto win an Academy Award for Best Song, for "Falling Slowly". Hansard had this to say along with the new album announcement:

“After our whirlwind that led up to the Oscars and after, we were so busy and with that came a pressure that neither of us particularly wanted, and ultimately we kind of drifted in the middle of all of that hard work and celebration ... We remained good friends, helping on each other’s records, keeping up with each other’s families. While touring my last record, I realized I just missed her. I remember calling Marketa and saying, ‘Do you feel like doing some gigs?’ She said, ‘Yeah, that sounds great,’ and the shows went really well. Once we were hanging out again, new songs started coming through, and we started trying new ideas and playing the songs onstage. From there the idea was to do a little recording and not put any pressure on it, just see what happens, and suddenly we found ourselves making a record. And we were both totally into it, and so here we are, a new chapter of our lives.”

The band is also going out European and North American tour in support of the record. Find those dates down below.

Forward is out June 13. Preorder here. Full tracklist below:

1. Factory Street Bells
2. People We Used To Be
3. Stuck In Reverse
4. I Leave Everything To You
5. A Little Sugar
6. Pretty Stories
7. Great Weight
8. Hundred Words

Tour Dates:

05/13 Amsterdam, NL @ Koninklijk Theater Carré
05/14 Antwerp, BG @ De Roma
05/16 Köln, DE @ Stadthalle Köln-Mülheim Jülich GmbH
05/17 Hamburg, DE @ CCH - Congress Center Hamburg
05/19 Berlin, DE @ Admiralspalast
05/20 Vienna, AUT @ Wiener Konzerthaus
05/21 Prague, CZ @ Forum Karlín
05/23 Kraków, POL @ Klub Studio
05/24 Warszawa, POL @ Klub Stodoła
05/25 Brno, CZ @ Sono Centrum
05/28 London, UK @ Royal Festival Hall
05/29 Gateshead, UK @ The Glasshouse
05/31 Dublin, IE @ National Concert Hall
06/01 Dublin, IE @ National Concert Hall
07/11 Vienna, VA @ Wolf Trap
07/12 Cincinnati, OH @ Taft Theatre
07/13 Indianapolis, IN @ Murat Theatre
07/15 Milwaukee, WI @ Riverside Theater
07/16 Minneapolis, MN @ Orpheum Theatre
07/18 Chicago, IL @ Auditorium Theatre
07/19 Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore Detroit
07/21 Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall
07/23 Rochester, NY @ Kodak Center
07/25 Northampton, MA @ The Pines Theater
07/26 Brooklyn, NY @ Kings Theatre
07/29 Philadelphia, PA @ The Met
07/31 Greenville, SC @ Peace Center
08/01 Durham, NC @ Durham Performing Arts Center
08/02 Atlanta, GA @ The Woodruff Arts Center
09/09 St. Louis, MO @ The Factory
09/10 Kansas City, MO @ The Midland Theatre
09/12 Dallas, TX @ The Majestic Theater
09/13 Austin, TX @ ACL Live at The Moody Theater
09/15 Santa Fe, NM @ Lensic Performing Arts Center
09/16 Mesa, AZ @ Mesa Arts Center (Ikeda Theater)
09/19 Los Angeles, CA @ The Greek Theatre
09/20 San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic
09/22 Portland, OR @ Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
09/23 Vancouver, BC @ The Orpheum Theatre
09/24 Seattle, WA @ The Paramount Theatre

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