Award-wining Irish singer songwriter Declan O’Rourke returns after 2 years with his new Paul Weller-produced Arrivals, the most emotionally raw and affecting album of his career, out now via East West Records.

Recorded over six days at Black Barn studios in Surrey, with Weller producing (‘he was there every moment, before, during and long after, discussing ideas about this and that, even down to the artwork. It was hugely impressive…’), Arrivals sees Declan O’Rourke present his art in a different yet wholly distinctive manner. The sound is stripped back to Declan’s soulful and resonant voice, the virtuosic acoustic guitar playing for which he’s renowned and only the occasional sparse arrangement of strings and late-night drums bringing colour and light to the LP’s 10 songs. Weller, a fan of Declan’s songwriting for some years, also adds his multi-instrumental abilities to the recordings, including a beautiful piano accompaniment to the closing track.

From 2004’s debut Since Kyabram to his forthcoming album, Arrivals (his seventh studio record, and his debut for East est records), the Galway-based artist’s skills as a songwriter have been noticed and applauded by perfectionists such as John Prine and James Taylor. His songs have been covered by fellow artists, most notably his classic 2004 song “Galileo” which has been recorded by Eddi Reader and Josh Groban amongst others. His last album Chronicles Of The Great Irish Famine, documented rare first-hand accounts from that devastating period of Irish history and garnered numerous awards.

Richard Walters is an English songwriter and singer. As a solo artist he has released four critically acclaimed albums and four EP’s since 2007. His music has featured on a number of US TV shows including Grey’s Anatomy, CSI: Miami, Criminal Minds, Tin Star and Revenge, and has amassed over 30 million streams. His new album, Golden Veins, came out in the summer of 2020 on Cooking Vinyl and he is also a member of LYR – the new music project from Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage.

‘Songwriter Richard Walters pours every aspect of his being into his art… gilded dream pop with a stellar vocal’ Clash Magazine

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