The new album from STAND is now available. "Travel Light" is on sale through the bands website - http://www.standland.com and will be available in Road Records, Dublin within the week & in all Digital Music Stores soon.
The record was made mostly in New York, where the band have been based for the last few years. An official Irish Release is planned for Spring '07. Here's a quick Press Release:

A story from front to back:
2006
After many months of sonic construction and underground whispering, Dublin's Stand are about to release their fourth album proper, “Travel Light” onto the world in November. Sessions were booked. Release dates were nudged. Tracks were pulled apart limb from limb and put back together in novel ways. What emerged can only be described as their strongest body of songs to date.
Mr. David Walsh wore the producer hat, sifting through the do's and dont's, letting the songs core breathe, giving a fine “Slan” to tiresome layering. Kudos. The melodies carry the weight. This album finds Neil and Alan in fine voice.

Michael McCoy made sure tracks didn't need redoing because the kick drum microphone was left unplugged. Chief engineer of the Hit Factory NY, his craft, humour and tendency to an 18hr session kept spirits afloat.
The venues: Buffalo, Rheinbeck, Manhattan, NYC and Lexington KY. Work started in a northern blizzard and finished under a southern sun.
Newcomers should note that this band have wavered their part in the corporate merry-go-round. No one is wearing high-street garb. Free of making up PR sound bites, reducing themselves to industry fodder they paved their own path on the hard shoulder parallel to their mentors' highways.
Imagine the tunesmith of Neil Finn, the wide-open spaces of The Pink Floyd, the live emotion of Neil Young. Listen to this record. Check out a live show. Only then will the penny drop.