AMBLE score their first Irish #1 single as The Swell ends Rein Me In’s 11-week run!
Folk trio Amble reach #1 on the Official Irish Singles Chart today with The Swell, their first number one single! The result ends an eleven-week consecutive run at the top for Sam Fender and Olivia Dean's Rein Me In, which accumulated 18 weeks at #1 in total, equalling Bill Whelan's Riverdance for most weeks at #1 in the chart's history.
Released on June 26 via Warner Records, The Swell is the tenth track on the trio's forthcoming second album Love and All Its Wares, due January 29, 2027, and has since been certified platinum. The single was premiered live at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on June 11. Recorded over three weeks at Grouse Lodge Recording Studios in Westmeath in April 2026, Love and All Its Wares was produced by Philip Weinrobe, known for his work with Adrianne Lenker of Big Thief, Tomberlin and Theo Katzman.
Amble — Leitrim’s Robbie Cunningham (vocals/guitar), Longford’s Ross McNerney (mandolin/bouzouki/banjo) and Sligo’s Oisín McCaffrey (guitar/vocals) — formed in 2022 after the three quit their day jobs. Their debut LP Reverie (Warner Records, May 2025) topped the Irish charts on release, became the most-streamed Irish album of that year, and has not left the Albums Chart top 10 since release, currently sitting at #3. The trio went on to win the RTÉ Choice Music Prize awards for Single of the Year (Schoolyard Days) and Breakthrough Artist of the Year. The band closed 2025 with three sold-out nights at Dublin's 3Arena.
