Oscar-nominated Killarney actor and singer Jessie Buckley and Brit Award-winning producer and musician Bernard Butler have announced a new collaborative album, For All Our Days That Tear The Heart – sharing the project's first single, 'The Eagle and The Dove', this morning.

According to the album's description, the pair's friendship grew from "an unlikely shared love of Killarney and the small island of Valentia where Bernard would go on holiday as a boy."

Bernard, whose parents originally come from Dun Laoghaire, had previously seen Jessie perform a song on an American chat show, in promotion of 2018’s Wild Rose.

“I remember clocking just how much character there was in her voice and how freely she expressed it,” the former Suede guitarist recalls.

‘The Eagle and the Dove’ was the first song the pair wrote together. Named after a book by the interwar proto-feminist writer Vita Sackville-West, the song set the tone for the project.

“Right now, I feel like I’ll never make another album again,” says Jessie, “because I can’t imagine another album happening the way this one did. It’s amazing that it even happened once. This obscure, organic, odd little thing that just found us.”

“More than anything, I wanted it to be joyous – properly joyous – because there is such joy in Jessie, there really is,” adds Bernard. “In spite of the darkness and the intensity in these songs, I’m just flying when I listen back to them.”

Jessie and Bernard will play their debut live show as a duo on May 8, at the Green Note in London. Tickets are available to fans via the album preorder link here.

Watch the video for 'The Eagle and The Dove', directed by Harvey Pearson, below:

Album tracklisting:
01 - The Eagle & The Dove
02 - For All Our Days That Tear The Heart
03 - 20 Years A-Growing
04 - Babylon Days
05 - Seven Red Rose Tattoos
06 - Footnotes On The Map
07 - We’ve Run The Distance
08 - We Haven’t Spoke About The Weather
09 - Beautiful Regret
10 - I Cried Your Tears
11 - Shallow The Water
12 - Catch The Dust