After decades of writing toward one destination, Northern Ireland-born singer and songwriter Foy Vance found himself somewhere entirely new. Following the completion of 2026’s The Wake, the singer felt called to revisit a vast archive of material he’d written over the course of 27 years but never shared with the world.
His eighth album IF gathers a selection of those newly reimagined songs into an intimate but sweeping meditation on transformation and possibility. As it unfolds across three distinct acts, IF: WE, IF: YOU, and IF: I, the album gradually narrows its focus from our place in the wider world to the complexities of love to the inner workings of the self.
After decades of writing toward one destination, Northern Ireland-born singer and songwriter Foy Vance found himself somewhere entirely new. Following the completion of 2026’s The Wake, the singer felt called to revisit a vast archive of material he’d written over the course of 27 years but never shared with the world.
His eighth album IF gathers a selection of those newly reimagined songs into an intimate but sweeping meditation on transformation and possibility. As it unfolds across three distinct acts, IF: WE, IF: YOU, and IF: I, the album gradually narrows its focus from our place in the wider world to the complexities of love to the inner workings of the self.
