Following up on recently released Rudimental collaboration Be Somebody, Dublin’s James Vincent McMorrow has shared plans for the release of ‘Grapefruit Season’, his first studio album since 2017’s ‘True Care’.

McMorrow has taken steps to cast off the folk image he was initially attached too, and this album appears to continue that trend with production credits from powerhouse hip-hop hitmaker Kenny Beats and Caroline Polachek’s former Chairlift other half Patrick Wimbley.

The Dublin artist also shared a video for his most recent single Waiting. The video keeps it simple focusing McMorrow performing the song in a studio with acoustic guitar in tow.

“I had this album finished last year and then the world stopped and I had to stop,” says McMorrow.

“I remember sitting in my car crying after I heard that we’d be parking the work until 2021, and then I wrote ‘Waiting’.

“It’s a song about feeling sorry for myself, and then going home and talking to the one person in my life who understands just how awkward a fit all of this is for me, and who loves me for the actual human I am and not what I curate in order to feel like the person I need to be.”

‘Grapefruit Season’ will be released via Columbia Records on 16 July, 2021.

‘Grapefruit Season’ Track Listing:

1.     Paradise
2.     Gone
3.     Planes In The Sky
4.     Tru Love
5.     Waiting
6.     Poison To You
7.     We Don’t Kiss Under Umbrellas Like We Used To
8.     A House and a River
9.     Hollywood & Vine
10.   Cliché
11.   Headlights
12.   I Should Go
13.   Grapefruit
14.   Part of Me

McMorrow is set to play two homecoming shows in Dublin’s Olympia Theatre on 19 / 20 April, 2022. Tickets available via Ticketmaster