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Orla Gartland announces her second album, Everybody Needs A Hero

24 July 2024, 11:15 | Written by Tyler Damara Kelly

Orla Gartland has announced her second studio album Everybody Needs A Hero, and shared new single "The Hit".

Everybody Needs A Hero will feature already released singles "Little Chaos", "Mine", "Kiss Ur Face Forever" and new single, "The Hit", showcasing a slightly softer side to the record. ‘

The new single taps into the good and bad of feeling deep empathy for another, when you’re so close to somebody that you take on their struggles and start to become the same person. Gartland describes the relationship in question as “like a voodoo doll thing… you’re so connected it hurts,” she explains “it’s a nice gesture, because you’re admitting you care about that person so much that when they’re in pain you feel it too, but there’s a point that it can go too far and that’s just not healthy or sustainable.”

Everybody Needs A Hero explores how Gartland shapeshifts through the currents of a long term relationship and works out how to take up space in a postfeminist world. The album comes three years on from the release of her acclaimed debut album Woman On The Internet.

The album came to life between her London studio and the creative sanctuary of Middle Farm Studios in Devon. With Gartland on a constant quest to push herself as a writer and producer, she captained the ship during the writing and recording processes, with strong direction right through to the mixing and mastering. She worked with longtime collaborators Tom Stafford and Peter Miles in co-producing the album, inspired by each producers’ digital and analog approaches.

Everybody Needs A Hero, is due for release on Friday 4 October via her own label New Friends, and is available to pre-order now.

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