Orla Gartland has released a new single, ‘Late To The Party’.
A collab with Declan McKenna, it’s from her second studio album ‘Everybody Needs A Hero’, set for release on 4th October via her own label New Friends.
“‘Late To The Party’ is a big old bratty song about resenting the baggage that you inherit when you love someone and yearning for a time when we were all a blank slate,” says Orla.
“I wanted a song on the record that shifted in pace a lot, something fun and loud, something indulgent. I first wrote ‘Late To The Party’ over a couple of solo sittings in my studio, mumbling out the lyrics while playing drums.
“A few months later I sent the song to Declan – for me he is one of the absolute greats, a properly timeless artist & writer. We worked on the song remotely at first, sending stems back & forth and then jumped in the studio for a day to dismantle the song & put it all back together. Dec’s parts & energy added so much to the track for me and after months of revisiting it ‘Late To The Party’ was suddenly complete.”
‘Everybody Needs A Hero’ also features previously-released singles ‘Little Chaos’, ‘Mine’, ‘Kiss Ur Face Forever’ and ‘The Hit’.
Gartland has also not long revealed her first headline tour of North America, taking place in November 2024. The thirteen-date tour includes stops at New York’s Bowery Ballroom and LA’s Troubadour, with all but one date selling out on the first day of sale.
The dates in full read:
NOVEMBER
7 Cafe 939, Boston, MA
8 Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY
9 Atlantis, Washington, DC
11 Johnny Brenda’s, Philadelphia, PA
13 Bar Le Ritz, Montreal, QC
15 Garrison, Toronto, ON
16 Third Man Records, Detroit, MI
17 Sleeping Village, Chicago, IL
21 Polaris Hall, Portland, OR
22 Fox Cabaret, Vancouver, BC
23 Barboza, Seattle, WA
25 Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco, CA
26 Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA
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