[4] The release would act as a celebration of the 17 sold-out shows the band had performed at the NCH over the course of their career to that point (that figure now stands at 24).

[5] In an interview, pianist and producer Thomas Bartlett said of the venue: “After playing our very first show there, we became really bonded to the National Concert Hall.

I think because the room holds such importance for us as a band, and because the residency has become an annual tradition, we approach these shows with a particular kind of fire and focus, but also in the knowledge that we can really take our time to stretch out and explore, and that the audience will happily go wandering with us.”[6] Compiled by Bartlett from two years’ worth of concert recordings, the album was produced by Bartlett and The Gloaming, with Patrick Dillett on mixing duties.

Shortly afterwards, music magazine Hot Press reported that the record had gone straight to No.3 in the Irish Album Charts upon its release.

[9] A five-star review in the Sunday Business Post stated that the album's "six lengthy tracks here encapsulate all that is terrific about The Gloaming”,.

“In an era where American sounds and images reign supreme, The Gloaming remind us as a people of our own cultural inheritance.”[14] Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.

The Pilgrim's Song - Lyric consisting of two extracts of poems by Seán Ó Riordáin: “Oilithreacht Fám Anam” and “A Sheanfhilí, Múinídh Dom Glao” from Eireaball Spideoige (1952).