Sorcha Richardson

With just two albums to her name, Sorcha Richardson has been making a name for herself as one of Ireland’s most magnetic songwriters. The last few years have seen her on a remarkable ascent that includes landing a Choice Music Prize nomination for her debut album “First Prize Bravery”, before reaching a #4 position in the Official Irish Album Charts and topping the Irish Independent Albums Chart for its follow up “Smiling Like An Idiot”. In that time, she’s amassed more than 80 million streams, racked-up widespread plaudits from the likes of The Guardian and BBC Radio 6 Music, and toured around the world both as a headliner and as a special guest for the likes of Mitski, Dodie, Villagers & Snow Patrol. Having debuted new material last month for Other Voices at St. James Church in Dingle, “Grenadine” marks the first official taste of what comes next for Richardson. Written in West Kerry and recorded in Belfast by Chris W Ryan (Chalk, Just Mustard, New Dad), the track shows Richardson at her most confident and contemplative, combining warm guitars with atmospheric Hammond organs, and hook-led introspective lyrics that examine life’s slow burning trajectory, and the slow realisation that things aren’t perhaps what they seem on the surface. Speaking on the single, Richardson says, “Grenadine’ is is a way of reaching for things you still know to be true, no matter how small, to ground yourself in rocky waters.”