Product Description
RELEASE DATE: 13TH NOVEMBER 2026
Following recent singles ‘But First, Love’ and ‘Coughing Up Butterflies’, Irish band
Bell X1 officially announce their ninth studio album, Good Bones, due for release
on November 13, 2026.
Alongside the album announcement, the band reveal details of their Autumn/Winter
2026 tour, taking Good Bones on the road for dates across Wexford, Dublin, Cork,
Derry, Belfast and Killarney. Tour presale tickets will be available to Bell X1’s mailing
list on Thursday, September 10, with general sale opening Friday, September 11.
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.
Track Listing:
1. Not Even Meant For Me 2. But First. Love 3. Born 4. A Peace Offering
5. Coughing Up Butterflies 6. Alone with Your Thoughts 7. Leaps And Bounds
8. Talking In Your Sleep 9. Atlas 10. Smile Like You Mean It 11. Stay Lost 12. Still
The Ocean
