Dublin-born singer-songwriter Sorcha Richardson has announced a new album, Draw the Outline. The follow-up to 2022’s Smiling Like an Idiot arrives September 11 via Faction Records. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the quietly anthemic ‘Illinois Again’, which is accompanied by a self-directed video. Check it out below.
“’Illinois Again’ is a bittersweet song about connection and loneliness,” Richardson explained in a statement. “It’s doing the thing you’ve always dreamed of doing, surrounded by friends, and yet still feeling an undercurrent of isolation and not fully understanding why.”
She continued: “It began as an attempt to capture the dreamy vignette of a headline tour across North America, but in writing about that euphoria I kept finding a quiet sense of disconnection. It’s wanting to share a moment but feeling like you’ll never be able to explain it to someone else, or even hold on to it properly for yourself. This song is an attempt to hold those feelings side by side; the joy and loneliness.”
Reflecting on the album as a whole, Richardson said: “A lot of my previous stuff is me observing other people’s conversations, or me observing my conversations with other people. A lot of this album is me observing my conversations within my own head,. There’s a surreal, dream-like quality to it. It moves between me here in the room with you now and then, all of the things that my brain is throwing up to me; fears, memories, imagined outcomes.”
Draw the Outline Tracklist:
Draw the Outline Tracklist:
1. Sea Pink Moon
2. Grenadine
3. Fake Venice
4. Illinois Again
5. Ellen Forever
6. Dog’s Best Man
7. Adam (Pacing in the Park)
8. The Orchard
9. Sunshine Season
10. The Video
