Orla Gartland – Everybody Needs a Hero (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 37:39 minutes | 450 MB | Genre: Indie Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © New Friends
Orla Gartland’s songwriting is filled with warmth and humour. Gut-punch couplets sit alongside brilliantly witty quips, and the Irish musician creates tracks filled with personal realisations that lay herself bare, while always remaining in on the joke.
Since first emerging on YouTube in her early teens, the Dublin-born, London-based artist has won over fans with this personable brand of songwriting. From the earnest admission on 2015’s fizzing nugget of Two Door Cinema-inflected indie-pop ‘Lonely People’ (the titular track of one of Gartland’s earliest EPs) to the conversational delivery of lines like “Life is short until it’s not/Honestly, it’s kinda long” in ‘You’re Not Special, Babe’ – a highlight of 2021 debut record ‘Woman On The Internet’ – her razor-sharp pen has prevailed.
It continues to persist in Gartland’s latest record, ‘Everybody Needs A Hero’. Take ‘Kiss Ur Face Forever’ – an explosion of pop-punk riffs and half-spoken come-ons. In the electric bridge, she teases: “Let’s play a game of emotional Monopoly in the name of monogamy/Walls down and, now, there’s no stopping me.” It’s a frank assessment of flourishing romance and the indecision of going all in, but just in case there were any doubts, she makes her intentions totally clear: “I want the weight of you on top of me”.
Tracklist:
1-1. Orla Gartland – Both Can Be True (01:30)
1-2. Orla Gartland – SOUND OF LETTING GO (02:49)
1-3. Orla Gartland – Little Chaos (02:54)
1-4. Orla Gartland – Backseat Driver (02:55)
1-5. Orla Gartland – The Hit (03:30)
1-6. Orla Gartland – Simple (03:31)
1-7. Orla Gartland – Late To The Party (feat. Declan McKenna) (03:35)
1-8. Orla Gartland – Three Words Away (03:10)
1-9. Orla Gartland – Kiss Ur Face Forever (02:47)
1-10. Orla Gartland – Who Am I? (03:08)
1-11. Orla Gartland – Mine (03:08)
1-12. Orla Gartland – Everybody Needs a Hero (04:35)
