For Those I Love details second album, Carving The Stone

Following For Those I Love's return last month with "Of The Sorrows", his first new material since 2021, he has also shared a second single from the record – almost a sequel to a track from the debut – in the form of "No Scheme".

"No Scheme is the spiritual successor to Top Scheme, the only track on the new album with a direct link to the old. Anchored by the same chaos as Top Scheme, No Scheme trades some of its anger for despondency, it's rage for reflection, while never fully leaving that original fire behind," Balfe explains. "Like much of the album it comes from, whenever it points the finger outwardly, it points it back inwardly too. Hypocrisy, complacency, and culpability are all present, but so too is a search for justice or meaning in an increasingly confusing time. A great deal has changed since I wrote it, but I feel as committed as ever to sharing it with you all."

After a prolific period where he couldn't leave his Dublin apartment without pummelling observations, couplets, and ideas into his notes app he realised that a second album had become an artistic necessity. He patiently turned these scrawls into verses and, in his cramped home studio, produced instrumentals to make musical sense of how he was feeling. “There was a time I did feel like I didn't have anything to say as I have no interest in populating space for the sake of it,” Balfe says of making the new album. “Then one day it all just started to come out."

In support of the album, For Those I Love will tour Ireland for the first time and perform their biggest UK tour yet, with shows in Bristol, London, Manchester, Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin, and more.

Tracklist:

1. Carving The Stone
2. No Quiet
3. No Scheme
4. The Ox / The Afters
5. Civic
6. Mirror
7. This Is Not The Place I Belong
8. Of The Sorrows
9. I Came Back To See The Stone Had Moved