Sinead O'Brien announces debut album with new cut "Holy Country"

The Dan Carey-produced single "Holy Country" is O'Brien's first new material since November's "GIRLKIND", and is accompanied by a Chloé le Drezen-directed video.

O'Brien's debut album Time Bend and Break The Bower will follow her 2020 EP Drowned in Blessings, and was recorded at Dan Carey's south London studio Mr Dan’s.

"The story of the album is built up in layers; one song giving context to the next," O'Brien explains. "I thought about becoming undressed; testing my ideas, my voice. Working myself out across themes of identity, curiosity, creative process. Experimenting with the form and shape of language, using tone and delivery to get to the immediate centre of what I am saying. The record opens and closes with poems, these tracks have a really clear direction - a form which is set apart from the ‘songs’. I hold stops in different places, moving emphatically through the lyrics, changing the meaning. No punctuation - only the voice mapping out the way."

She adds of the album title, "The album title Time Bend and Break The Bower, from the song "Multitudes", came into my head and made its demands, an idea that pressed on me throughout the record. It has a very active role. The clock symbol is enlarged, it looms like a moon over my activity watching, counting me down to zero. Dripping with self-sabotage and the feeling of being chased; it pulls and pushes against the verses which talk of "Multitudes"; the things that faithfully come back - the images, the words, creativity. It is creativity itself."

Tracklist:

1. Pain Is The Fashion Of The Spirit
2. Salt
3. Girlkind
4. End Of Days
5. Like Culture
6. The Rarest Kind
7. Holy Country
8. Spare For My Size, Me
9. There Are Good Times Coming
10. Multitudes
11. Go Again