Ed O’Brien QnA with Blue Morpho screening

Ed O’Brien announces Blue Morpho, his absorbing, second solo album and first under his own name, out 22 May 2026 via his new label home,Transgressive.

O’Brien likes to quote the Kentucky poet and farmer Wendell Berry: “To know the dark, go dark.”
That philosophy became both compass and catalyst for Blue Morpho a deeply personal album produced by Paul Epworth (Paul McCartney, Adele), born from one of the most challenging periods of his life. Though he remains one of rock music’s most lauded guit arists, Blue Morpho finds O’Brien beginning anew, finally starting to figure out his approach. With its moments of hypnotic psych-folk, radiant guitars, beguiling trip -hop and luminous stillness, it
reveals an artist moving beyond familiar structures and feels like a map of O’Brien navigating
exciting other ways to listen, work and live. He steps into the dark, and emerges renewed, evident on the stunning