Glen Hansard is opening the next chapter of an ambitious live document. The indie folk favorite has announced ‘Don+t Settle – Transmissions West,’ the second volume of his new album ‘Don+t Settle – Transmissions East & West,’ arriving June 26th, 2026 via Plateau/Secretly Distribution.
The record came together over two nights in April 2025, performed in front of an audience at Berlin’s historic Funkhaus. Its 20-song tracklist gathers live reinterpretations of material spanning Hansard’s full career, drawing from his four solo albums, his work with The Frames, and his time as half of the Oscar-winning duo The Swell Season alongside Marketa Irglova.
The full ‘Transmissions East & West’ wears several hats at once. It works as a career retrospective, a ‘Best Of’ collection, a live record, and a new studio album all in one.
To mark the announcement, Hansard has shared the single “Revelate,” paired with a live performance video filmed at Funkhaus during the sessions. The track carries decades of fire, and it remains one of the most stirring pieces in his catalog.
The song’s roots run deep. Hansard describes “Revelate” as an arms-to-the-sky plea for intervention, written during a stretch of disappointment in the early ’90s when The Frames were dropped from Island Records. He’d been signed to the label by the legendary Chris Blackwell just two years earlier, and recalls every interaction with him as positive.
Hansard later learned that Blackwell had semi-retired, and that the band got swept up in a routine corporate clear-out. He points to the young lives and dreams that get overlooked when companies treat such moves as “just business.” His response was the only one an artist could make.
“No one was gonna tell me we were done,” Hansard says. “And we dealt with the earthquake the way any artist must. We wrote our way through it.” “Revelate” became the first single from the band’s self-funded second album ‘Fitzcarraldo,’ and he still sings it proudly today.