Orla Gartland and Declan McKenna combine on new single ‘Late To The Party’.
Orla’s new album ‘Everybody Needs A Hero’ is out on October 4th, and she plays a special launch party at London’s Hoxton Hall on September 3rd.
New single ‘Late To The Party’ is a real vibe shift, a zesty piece of alt-pop rebellion that blends indie guitar crunch with Orla Gartland’s command of melody.
The lyrics are a self-admitted bratty ode to relationship troubles, with Declan McKenna leaping into the studio on BVs. Adding something totally different, the yin and yang of their voices helps provide some colour and balance.
Orla Gartland comments…
‘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.
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.
Tune in now.
Photo Credit: Nicole Ngai
