The Clockworks announce new album and release new single

The Irish band The Clockworks today announce their upcoming album ‘The Entertainment’, releasing on March 27, 2026, via V2 Records. Together with this announcement, the band also released their new single ‘Through The Looking Glass’ today.

“This song centres around that moment of telling someone you love them and not hearing the same thing back. It’s the desperation, longing and futility of building yourself up beforehand to pour your heart out and obsessively retracing the moment a thousand times in your head afterwards. It felt exciting to wite a song that drops you into the middle of the action and builds lyrically and musically to this climax, where it hits a crisis point and suddenly unspools.”

Formed in Galway City, Ireland, James McGregor (vocals/guitar), Sean Connelly (guitar) and Damian Greaney (drums) went to school together there and met Tom Freeman (bass) on the music scene.

The four-piece are drawn together by not only a mutual appreciation of music past and present, but also a love of films and books, notably the ones on the more ‘noir’ side of the spectrum. You could say Arctic Monkeys got them into a band, The Strokes showed them how tightly you could distil it and Radiohead showed them how wide you could take it. But these days, they’re not afraid to also put Billie Eilish and Charlie XCX into that mixture and films from director Fellini to ‘drive’.

What matters is that from starting out playing acoustic folk, that turned into 3 minute (post-)punkish songs, they now have expanded a lot from there, taking in all the experience they have now recording and touring. Pushing the emotion by being authentic and creating what you really want despite the noise and haste around you.