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Orla Gartland has teamed up with Declan McKenna for the new song ‘Late to the Party’. It’s the latest single from her upcoming sophomore album Everybody Needs a Hero, and it comes with an accompanying video. Check it out below.
“‘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,” Gartland explained in a statement. “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,” she continued. “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.”
Everybody Needs a Hero, the follow-up to 2021’s Woman on the Internet, comes out October 4. Revisit our Artist Spotlight interview with Orla Gartland.
