Orlando Weeks links up with Wet Leg's Rhian Teasdale on new single, "Dig"

“‘Dig’ is a tit for tat exchange where long worn-out promises are remade and road weary offences retaken. The kind of disagreement that manages to be somewhere between outpouring of emotion and exposed internal monologue," Weeks says of the song.

The overarching themes on LOJA are optimism and reflection: the positive mindset that emerged as he left London for a new life in Lisbon. “The great change in our lives was that we left London and moved to Lisbon, and the record definitely has elements of being a love letter to the place that we now call home. But I think the move provided a stirring of the waters. It threw up an awful lot of stuff and it gave us perspective and hindsight because suddenly there was distance. You can re-evaluate the things you were too close to, those things that there was no point spending time thinking about because it was the day-to-day bubble you were in.”

The album process started late in 2022, but only gathered pace after he relocated to Lisbon before the bulk of the record was made in thirteen days in Chale Abbey Studios on the Isle of Wight with producer Sergio Maschetzko (Black Country New Road) and his collaborator David Granshaw, before Orlando teamed up with Nathan Jenkins (Bullion) to add the finer final touches.

The title ’LOJA’ (a shop or a store) references a building that Weeks rented in Lisbon which he used as his first proper art studio, a place where he crafted all of the art that will accompany the album. The album will be released to coincide with the start of a special residence at The Copeland Gallery, London running from 6-9 June, where by day Orlando Weeks will exhibit the paintings, sketches and prints he created there before it is transformed into a gig venue by evening, when he will perform tracks from the album for the very first time.

Tracklist:

1. Longing
2. Best Night
3. Wake Up
4. Dig featuring Rhian Teasdale
5. You & The Packhorse Blues
6. Good To See You
7. My Love Is (Daylight Saving)
8. Please Hold
9. Sorry
10. Tomorrow
11. Beautiful Place