Orla Gartland has announced her second studio album Everybody Needs A Hero, due for release on Friday 4th October on her own label New Friends.
Everybody Needs A Hero features previous released singles ‘Little Chaos’, ‘Mine’, ‘Kiss Ur Face Forever’ and new song ‘The Hit’.
The followup to Woman On The Internet, explores how the songwriter moves through a long term relationship, and how to find her place in a postfeminist world., while exploring the idea of a hero, and how we look up to someone else, potentially to cover our own flaws.
The album was written in her London studio, and recorded at Middle Farm Studios in Devon, and co-produced the album Tom Stafford and Peter Miles, inspired by each producers’ digital and analog approaches.
New song ‘The Hit’ is about how closeness leads to feeling deep empathy for another in a relationship, and how dangerous and consuming that can be.
“[It’s ]like a voodoo doll thing… you’re so connected it hurts.“It’s a nice gesture, because you’re admitting you care about that person so much that when they’re in pain you feel it too, but there’s a point that it can go too far and that’s just not healthy or sustainable.”
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Orla Gartland North American tour
Gartland has also announced her first ever headline tour of North America.
Thursday 7th November – Cafe 939 – Boston, MA – SOLD OUT
Friday 8th November – Bowery Ballroom – New York, NY – SOLD OUT
Saturday 9th November – Atlantis – Washington, DC – SOLD OUT
Monday 11th November – Johnny Brenda’s – Philadelphia, PA – SOLD OUT
Wednesday 13th November – Bar Le Ritz – Montreal, QC
Friday 15th November – Garrison – Toronto, ON – SOLD OUT
Saturday 16th November – Third Man Records – Detroit, MI – SOLD OUT
Sunday 17th November – Sleeping Village – Chicago, IL – SOLD OUT
Thursday 21st November – Polaris Hall – Portland, OR – SOLD OUT
Friday 22nd November – Fox Cabaret – Vancouver, BC – SOLD OUT
Saturday 23rd November – Barboza – Seattle, WA – SOLD OUT
Monday 25th November – Rickshaw Stop – San Francisco, CA – SOLD OUT
Tuesday 26th November – Troubadour – Los Angeles, CA – SOLD OUT
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About Orla Gartland:
Bold, brash and increasingly self-assured, Dublin-born, London-based artist and producer Orla Gartland ushers in a new chapter with ‘Little Chaos’. A testament to her artistic growth, burgeoning confidence and fastidious sense of independence the track is the latest milestone in this self-made talent’s journey. From career streams nudging towards a quarter of a billion, sold-out tours and festival appearances at Glastonbury and Latitude; to her Top 10 critically acclaimed self-released debut album Woman On The Internet; taking in a huge viral hit ‘Why Am I Like This,’ (700 million views and nearly 400,000 TikTok creations, and counting); and through to last year joining musical forces with longtime friends dodie, Greta Isaac and Martin Luke Brown to release The Secret To Life as new band FIZZ.
Amassing a dedicated fan-base and creative community including her notable ‘Secret Demo Club’, Orla has forged an even deeper relationship with her fans as she unveils her work-in-progress tracks, some of which have gone on to feature on the upcoming second record. Her brutal honesty and pragmatic realism have always been present in her songwriting but become even more prominent when paired with the louder, more angular alternative sound Orla has embraced this time around.
Orla’s debut album Woman On The Internet charted in the top 10 of the UK Official Charts, at #3 in the Irish Album Charts and was nominated for the RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2021. The culmination of many years honing her songwriting and production skills, the record was praised by the likes of The Observer (“This beautifully crafted debut spans pop-punk to indie rock, with knife-sharp lyrics all the way”), NME (“a hard-won celebration of perseverance and artistic freedom”) and many more.
