Niall Breslin: Quiet Lights 2025
Thu 20 Nov 2025
8pm
€31
Niall Breslin (also known to many as “Bressie”) is a multi-faceted Irish artist, author, academic and mental health campaigner whose work transcends traditional creative boundaries. He has announced a spacious, introspective and emotionally resonant new album, a new direction, The Place That Has Never Been Wounded, released on 24 October via the Icelandic label INNI. Featuring fourteen carefully crafted piano compositions, gently framed by atmospheric strings and immersive ambient details, the album is a stylistic swerve from Breslin’s earlier work. The first single, ‘The Credence Frequency’, is out now, accompanied by a live performance video recorded in Reykjavik, Iceland. Speaking of the single, Niall says: “‘The Credence Frequency’ is about tuning back into the primal transmission between body and mind, the signal that the chaos of modern culture drowns out. Endless metrics, curated feeds, the circus of self-optimisation, spiritual bypassing, individualism… it all distorts the frequency until you mistake the noise for your own voice.” ABOUT THE ALBUM: Part musical breakthrough, part philosophical treatise, and part autobiography, The Place That Has Never Been Wounded spotlights Breslin’s inherent musicality and his continued sharing of
his personal journey. “There's an awful lot about my life that I can't really express,” he explains. “Things that I find really difficult to understand, or to put into words. And those are the things I put into music.”Breslin has a lot of experience to work from. His storied career has included everything from playing professional rugby, until a career-ending injury, to releasing hit records, both solo, and with his former band The Blizzards. He’s written an award-winning memoir entitled Me, and my Mate Jeffrey, and started the ‘A Lust For Life’ charity, which provides early prevention mental health programmes in half of Ireland’s primary schools. Currently studying a PhD in Trinity College Dublin, Niall is focusing on the intersection of music and mindfulness. Somewhere along the way, making sense of life became a public process, and in that sense, the new album is the sound of many disparate pieces sliding into place.It was recorded at Camden Recording Studios in Dublin over five days with the help of friend and producer Eliot James (Bloc Party, Two Door Cinema Club, Petr Aleksander). They double-tracked each piece on a Steinway grand piano and a felted upright piano, resulting in a sound that’s both intimate and rich, a peaceful space for a certain kind of quietude.“I've learned in my own life that you can't avoid the things that make you uncomfortable,” says Breslin. “This record is meant to help people sit with that — the good, the bad, and the ugly of life. A soundtrack that lets you sit with it all.”The album will be accompanied by a book of the same name, due for publication by John Murray One in print, ebook and audio editions in January 2026. Each track is named after one chapter, and each of the four acts — The Polaris Principles, Duchas, Metta, and The Place That Has Never Been Wounded — is titled after one of its core concepts inspired by the work of Meister Eckhart. An extended version of the album is planned, to include spoken word reflections intended for use in guided meditation. “A line I use in the spoken word is we've become so busy chasing a life that we've ultimately missed living it,” Breslin says. “And that's what this album's about — living what's in front of you. Even if what's in front of you isn't particularly nice — live it. That’s the goal of this record, really.” Stream the album now: https://found.ee/PG0HKc
