Orla Gartland teams up with Declan McKenna for new single ‘Late To The Party’

Orla Gartland has offered up another taste of what to expect from her incoming sophomore album ‘Everybody Needs A Hero’ (out on 4th October via New Friends) in the form of playful new cut ‘Late To The Party’ - a track which features none other than fellow alt-pop favourite Declan McKenna. 

“‘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,” Orla has said of the single. “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.”

Explaining more about how her collab with Declan came about, she continues: “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.”

Having recently made her solo return with a string of punchy singles (including ‘Little Chaos’, ‘Mine’, and ‘The Hit’), Orla has also just announced an intimate album preview show on 3rd September at London’s Hoxton Hall. Tickets will go on sale tomorrow (Thursday 29th August) at 10am here. 

You can watch the video for ‘Late To The Party’ and check out the full tracklist for ‘Everybody Needs A Hero’ below.