David Keenan returns this with Modern Mythologies, an album that pushes his songwriting further into raw truth, emotional excavation and unfiltered artistic freedom. Out now, the record arrives as Keenan’s boldest creative shift yet — an unguarded portrait of a year marked by rupture, reflection, and reinvention.
Written across a period of intense personal upheaval, Modern Mythologies dissolves the barrier between the poetic and the painfully real. Keenan dives headfirst into grief, reconciliation, self-interrogation, and a renegotiation of what it means to be an artist after everything familiar has fallen away. The result is a collection that feels lived-in and scarred, but also strangely luminous — an album searching for meaning in the small, sacred details of ordinary life.
Keenan describes the project as a reckoning with the “unfolding catastrophe in the inner chamber of my life and the wider world.” His writing is urgent, unvarnished, and cinematic, reflecting an artist who refuses to retreat into metaphor when the truth hurts too much to ignore. Sonically, the record pulls from folk roots, ambient textures, poetic monologues and instinct-driven experimentation, mirroring the chaos and clarity of the period in which it was made.
Across its tracks, Modern Mythologies weaves through questions of faith, loss, ancestry, modern identity, and the paradox of finding yourself by letting go of everything you thought you were. Keenan’s voice — fragile one moment, defiant the next — anchors the album’s shifting emotional terrain.
This is not a return to form; it is a reclamation. Modern Mythologies closes one chapter and opens another, leaving Keenan standing in full creative autonomy as he steps into a new era.
“The canvas is now blank as a new chapter unfolds,” he says. With this album, he paints boldly.
Upcoming tour dates for David Keenan
Tickets avail at https://davidkeenan.com/
2025
• 6 Nov – Irish Film Institute (IFI), Dublin
Address: 6 Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Ireland.
• 7 Nov – John Lee’s Bar & Venue, Tullamore
Address: Church St., Tullamore, Co. Offaly, R35 Y161, Ireland.
• 15 Nov – The Millhouse, Slane (final show of Chasing Myth tour + Hill of Tara visit)
Address: The Old Mill, Slane, Co. Meath, C15 FFK7, Ireland.
• 21 Nov – The Devonshire Arms Soho, London
Address: 17 Denman Street, Soho, London W1D 7HW, United Kingdom.
• 22 Nov – Rough Trade Denmark Street, London
Address: 24 Denmark Street, London WC2H 8NJ, United Kingdom.
• 26 Nov – Whelan’s / Spindizzy Records (Irish album launch night — live + in-store)
Address: 25 Wexford Street, Dublin 2, Ireland.
2026
• 13 Jan – Waterfront Hall, Belfast – as part of the Your Roots Are Showing / Folk In Fusion conference
Address: 2 Lanyon Place, Belfast BT1 3WH, Northern Ireland. https://www.waterfront.co.uk/what-s-on/folk-in-fusion/
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