Orla Gartland has previewed her forthcoming album Everybody Needs A Hero (due Friday 4th October via New Friends) with new single ‘Late to the Party’, featuring UK indiepop sensation Declan McKenna.

“‘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.”

Gartland will undertake a run of acoustic album launch shows in October, including visits to 3 Golden Discs stores here,

Everybody Needs A Hero

1) Both Can Be True
2) Sound Of Letting Go
3) Little Chaos
4) Backseat Driver
5) The Hit
6) Simple
7) Late To The Party feat. Declan McKenna
8) Three Words Away
9) Kiss UR Face Forever
10) Who Am I?
11) Mine
12) Everybody Needs A Hero

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