Orla Gartland & Declan McKenna Drop “Late To The Party”

Singer, songwriter, and producer Orla Gartland teams up with Declan McKenna on “Late to The Party” the latest from Orla’s second studio album Everybody Needs a Hero (due Friday, October 4th via New Friends/The Orchard).

Orla said:

Late To The Party’ is a big old bratty song about resenting the baggage that you inherit when you love someone and yearning for a time when we were all a blank slate.

I wanted a song on the record that shifted in pace a lot, something fun and loud, something indulgent. I first wrote ‘Late To The Party’ over a couple of solo sittings in my studio, mumbling out the lyrics while playing drums.

A few months later I sent the song to Declan – for me he is one of the absolute greats, a properly timeless artist & writer. We worked on the song remotely at first, sending stems back & forth and then jumped in the studio for a day to dismantle the song & put it all back together. Dec’s parts & energy added so much to the track for me and after months of revisiting it ‘Late To The Party’ was suddenly complete.