Strict Joy is the upcoming third album by the The Swell Season (Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová). It will be released in Ireland on Friday, October 23, 2009. It will be released in the rest of Europe on October 26 and on October 27, 2009 in North America(see 2009 in music) on the ANTI- record label.The title of the album was derived from a 1931 book of poems written by Irish poet James Stephens.

Hansard said about the new album: "For me, it's just an audio diary. It's just another installment of the life we lead