Claude says:The Swell Season's 2025 return with Forward finds Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová reaching for something warmer and less fractured than their earlier work—folk that breathes room instead of ache. You picked it up fresh this summer and keep drifting back to Factory Street Bells, letting the rest spin through like you're still getting to know it, which is the right pace for a record that seems to unfold rather than announce itself.