Foy Vance’s eighth studio album, IF, is a 16-song journey through nearly three decades of writing —
songs newly discovered, long hidden, and reimagined through the lens of who he is now.
Produced by Anderson East, the album began when Foy handed over 119 songs from across his career and simply said, “You pick it and I’ll sing it.” What emerged was not a retrospective, but a reckoning: a conversation between past and present, memory and meaning, possibility and consequence.
Inspired by the power of one small word, IF unfolds in three parts:
IF: WE explores the collective — family, community, belonging, and the ways we shape and lose ourselves in the world around us.
IF: YOU turns toward the other — love, blame, longing, forgiveness, and the limits of ever fully understanding another person.
IF: I returns to the self — the place every song ultimately begins, and the only place real change can start.
For Vance, IF is a word loaded with regret, hope, danger, promise, and transformation.
Across these three acts, it becomes the thread connecting a lifetime of songs — and the question still echoing inside them.
Foy Vance’s eighth studio album, IF, is a 16-song journey through nearly three decades of writing —
songs newly discovered, long hidden, and reimagined through the lens of who he is now.
Produced by Anderson East, the album began when Foy handed over 119 songs from across his career and simply said, “You pick it and I’ll sing it.” What emerged was not a retrospective, but a reckoning: a conversation between past and present, memory and meaning, possibility and consequence.
Inspired by the power of one small word, IF unfolds in three parts:
IF: WE explores the collective — family, community, belonging, and the ways we shape and lose ourselves in the world around us.
IF: YOU turns toward the other — love, blame, longing, forgiveness, and the limits of ever fully understanding another person.
IF: I returns to the self — the place every song ultimately begins, and the only place real change can start.
For Vance, IF is a word loaded with regret, hope, danger, promise, and transformation.
Across these three acts, it becomes the thread connecting a lifetime of songs — and the question still echoing inside them.
Videos
Music

(opens in a new tab)The Wake

(opens in a new tab)Joy of Nothing (Anniversary Edition)

(opens in a new tab)Signs of Life: Live From The Highlands

(opens in a new tab)Hope in the Highlands: Recorded Live From Dunvarlich

(opens in a new tab)Signs of Life

(opens in a new tab)To Memphis

(opens in a new tab)From Muscle Shoals

(opens in a new tab)Live In London

(opens in a new tab)The Wild Swan

(opens in a new tab)Live at Bangor Abbey

(opens in a new tab)Joy of Nothing

(opens in a new tab)Melrose (EP)

(opens in a new tab)Live Sessions & the Birth of the Toilet Tour

