“A song only becomes what it is through witness,” says Glen Hansard, speaking from a makeshift stage in the back room of a small pub in the west of Dublin in November 2022.
The resulting album, ‘All That Was East Is West of Me Now’, is by turns noisy and meditative, sprawling and hypnotic. Easily Hansard’s most rock record since ‘Burn the Maps’-era of The Frames. The title, which Hansard says stems from the “sudden realization that there’s more behind than ahead,” suggests a survey from a great height, taking in terrain travelled and that which is still to be discovered.
The collective sum of the parts Hansard mentions here in many ways brings us full circle. Built off the primal energy of The Frames’ ‘Fitzcarraldo’ and meditative rock leanings of ‘For the Birds’ as well as the powerfully understated punch of 2015’s ‘Didn’t He Ramble’ and ‘This Will Willing’’s foray into electronics and strings, ‘All That Was East…’ feels completely unlike anything Hansard has ever done.
“There’s No Mountain”, perhaps the song which will seem most familiar to lovers of Hansard’s earlier solo work, points to a way forward, to the virtue of simply pressing on despite cataclysms global and personal challenging any stable orbit.
“All That Was East…” ends with “Short Life” returning to the record’s central theme and the firm hope that “we might one day get some good ‘cross the line.” As the song builds in intensity a series of cascading melodies wash over the listener as Hansard invokes a mantra-like chant “running out of step, running out of road.”
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