Irish artist Sinead O’Brien has announced her debut album ‘Time Bend and Break The Bower’, due for release June 10th via Chess Club Records and available to pre-order now. Sinead also today releases a brand new single ‘Holy Country’, premiered on BBC Radio 6 Music by Steve Lamacq and accompanied by a stunning official music video directed by Chloé le Drezen. The album news and ‘Holy Country’ are also accompanied by the announcement of massive UK, Ireland and European tours pencilled in for September and October 2022 including London’s Lafayette – the full list of live dates is below, with tour tickets on pre-sale from Friday 18th.

“The story of the album is built up in layers; one song giving context to the next” explains Sinead; “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.”

“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.”

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Time Bend And Break The Bower album tracklisting:

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

 

 

Upcoming Live Dates:

March 2022
12^th – Route Du Rock, Saint-Malo, France
14^th– 20^th  SXSW Festival, Austin TX, USA
26^th – M4Music Festival, Zurich, Switzerland

April 2022
9^th – Wide Eyed Festival, O2 Academy, Leicester, UK
29^th – Les Nuits Botanique, Brussels, Belgium (Belle and Sebastian Support)

May 2022
1^st – Get Together Festival, The University of Sheffield Students’ Union, Sheffield, UK
12^th – 14^th – The Great Escape Festival, Brighton, UK
28^th – 29^th – Sea Change Festival, Totnes, UK

June 2022
6^th – Primavera In The City, Barcelona, Spain

July 2022
17^th – Motherwell Concert Hall, Motherwell, UK (Belle and Sebastian Support)
29^th – 31^st – All Together Now Festival, Co Waterford, Ireland

September 2022
1^st – 4^th – End Of The Road Festival, Wiltshire, UK
15^th – Le Grand Mix, Tourcoing, France
16^th –  Le Point Éphémère, Paris, France
17^th – Rotown, Rotterdam, Netherlands
18^th –  Paradiso Noord, Amsterdam, Netherlands
20^th – Cassiopeia, Berlin, Germany
21^st – Loppen, Copenhagen, Denmark
22^nd –  Obaren, Stockholm, Sweden
25^th. – Bumann & SOHN, Cologne, Germany
26^th – Trix, Antwerp, Belgium

October 2022 – UK and Ireland headline tour
9^th – Cluny 2, Newcastle, UK
10^th – King Tuts Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow, UK
11^th – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, UK
12^th – Deaf Institute, Manchester, UK
14^th – Bodega, Nottingham, UK
17^th – Lafayette, London, UK
19^th – Green Door Store, Brighton, UK
20^th – Ramsgate Music Hall, Ramsgate, UK
21^st – Exchange, Bristol, UK
26^th – Cyprus Avenue, Cork, Ireland
27^th – Whelans, Dublin, Ireland
28^th – Black Box, Belfast, UK
29^th – Dolans Warehouse, Limerick, Ireland

November 2022 – Belle and Sebastian UK Support Tour
14^th – Roundhouse, London, UK (B&S Support)
17^th – O2 Academy, Sheffield, UK (B&S Support)
24^th – O2 City Hall, Newcastle, UK (B&S Support)
27^th – Corn Exchange, Cambridge, UK (B&S Support)
28^th – O2 Academy, Birmingham, UK (B&S Support)
29^th – Guildhall, Southampton, UK (B&S Support)
30^th – Brighton Dome, Brighton, UK (B&S Support)