Sinead O’Brien shares new single "Like Culture"

Following the release of previous singles "Multitudes", "There Are Good Times Coming", "Holy Country" and "GIRLKIND", O'Brien has shared a fifth and final outing titled "Like Culture", which is teamed with a Sarah Piantadosi-directed video.

""Like Culture" is part memory, part experience but it’s never nostalgic," O'Brien said. "I worked from memory, splicing and intercutting it with scenes or mantras from my present. I look ahead and behind, banging the two together. Part of this stems from a poem I wrote in Paris in 2012 called "Limerick, slightly with you". It’s a coming-of-age story where there’s this rising tension, a disquiet beginning to bubble; the wars of youth. And once that started - it never stopped. You realise you’re never done looking, growing. The dance floor as a space and an image imprinted on me; the significance it holds for the individual, the group and culture. I wanted to create a really gritty piece where the dance floor and nightlife come as the saving response to that panicky call of youth. You feel the urge to live emotionally, the need to seek connection, contact. There’s desperate love, there’s wanting, kissing in the booth, on the floor."

O'Brien added, ""Growing together, like culture"; Under compression and circumstance, things merge, grow and cultivate. But it’s also about who you become in that setting, how that unfolds."

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.