Following the release of 2022 singles Lima and Kiwi, Dubliner EFÉ has announced the release of her second EP ‘Vitamin – C’ via Platoon on August 3rd.  News of the EP is accompanied by new 5-minute track Loving Girl which sees EFÉ leaning into her bedroom pop sensibilities.

On ‘Loving Girl’, EFÉ comments; “‘Loving Girl’ is about the juxtaposition between pleasing other people and yourself. It’s about finding a middle ground while wanting to be liked and seen as this ‘loving girl’. I started creating the song as a joke, so it was actually like 90% freestyle. I feel like it really captured my headspace at that time – feeling disconnected from people because of miscommunication and trying to figure out how to be loved. It ties in with ideas of co-dependency and struggling with feeling like you can’t depend on yourself – that you need someone to make a great song or art, or to be in a relationship. That is why it was so important for me to include the song in the EP, as it was me challenging myself and depending on my ideas.” 

EFÉ aka Anita Ikharo self-released her 2020 debut EP ‘What Should We Do This Summer?’ quickly gaining the attention of Irish and international press thanks o songs such as Table For Two marking her out from the crowd. For ‘Vitamin – C’ she enlisted the help of her best friend who.killed.romeo on production before sending the EP to be mixed and mastered by Ben Baptie (Moses Sumney, Rex Orange County, Little Simz).

“VITAMIN – C is a project I’m super proud of – I think it reflects my personality very well, with its quirks and just funny little moments. The ‘C’ in vitamin – C, stands again for codependency, and my struggles with being extremely dependent on others in music or relationships or work, as well as people not believing in me and trying to convince me that I need them in order to succeed. Although it has been quite a scary journey trying to navigate the industry, I think it’s overall a message of trusting yourself and your ideas and knowing that you are destined for greatness if you put the time and effort into what you do. It’s a reminder to myself that my intuition is really the key, and what I feel has brought me so far!”

Check out Loving Girl below. EFÉ plays Indie 2022 in Cork this weekend.