Good Bones

Following recent singles ‘But First, Love’ and ‘Coughing Up Butterflies’, Irish band Bell X1 officially announce their ninth studio album, Good Bones.

Good Bones introduces itself through two minutes of hushed and intimate instrumentation, a short gathering of strands that feels like a grounding, a moment of respite before moving forward together. Made in the aftermath of loss, Good Bones is a record informed by shared grief but it’s not one that dwells there. In many ways it’s an album about what pulls us back together, what lingers afterwards.

Recorded in the space of just 10 intense days, Good Bones comprises 12 captivating new songs and marks the first time Paul Noonan, David Geraghty and Dominic Phillips have worked with producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Josh Kaufman (Bonny Light Horseman, The Hold Steady, Josh Ritter). D. James Goodwin engineered, mixed and mastered the album.

Recorded in upstate New York at the beautiful Dreamland Studio, as well as in Josh’s own home studio, Good Bones captures Bell X1 in the most instinctive form of their long career; playing together, responding to the room, following the songs wherever they wanted to go. The result is something intimate and earthy, a record that comes alive slowly, the warmth of its tones and its unexpected textures lending the songs an emotional charge that feels like a special moment captured in time.