Glen Hansard Announces 'Don+t Settle - Transmissions West:' Vol. 2

Official Announcement | Published: May 27, 2026 2:10 PM EDT

(Chromatic) Glen Hansard today announced Don+t Settle - Transmissions West, the second volume of his new album Don+t Settle - Transmissions East & West, will be released on June 26th, 2026, via Plateau/Secretly Distribution.

Recorded over two nights in April 2025 in front of an audience at Berlin's historic Funkhaus, the album's 20-song tracklist features live reinterpretations of songs from across his esteemed career, including his four solo albums, his work with The Frames, as well as half of the Oscar-winning duo The Swell Season (with Marketa Irglova). Don+t Settle - Transmissions East & West as a whole encapsulates multiple things at once: a career retrospective opus, a 'Best Of' collection, a live record, and a new studio album.

To celebrate the announcement of Transmissions West (Vol. 2), Hansard has also shared the single "Revelate" alongside a live performance video filmed at Funkhaus during recording.

"'Revelate' is an arms to the sky plea for an intervention. At a time of great disappointment and disillusionment, I needed an answer. Was everything I ever wished for and actively moved toward suddenly gone from my grasp? It was the early '90s and we (The Frames) had just been unceremoniously let go (dropped) from Island Records. Which was a shock and huge injury," Hansard explains of the song's origins. "I'd been signed by the legendary Chris Blackwell to island records just two years previous. And all of my interactions with him were incredibly positive. I later discovered Chris had semi-retired and we were simply part of the general clean up or clear out that happens occasionally in such companies, that are bought and sold and restructured all the time. What they overlook or choose not to see is the young lives and dreams that are directly affected by 'it's just business' anyway. No one was gonna tell me we were done. And we dealt with the earthquake the way any artist must. We wrote our way through it. 'Revelate' was the first single from our second and self funded album Fitzcarraldo. Every song is a 'f*** you' to anyone who dismissed us. I stand by it and sing it proudly to this day."