The Riptide Movement Is This What We’re All Living For?

HE RIPTIDE MOVEMENT TO RELEASE BLISTERING GUITAR DRIVEN ANTHEM

 ‘IS THIS WHAT WE’RE ALL LIVING FOR?’  

OUT 1 NOVEMBER 2019

BAND CURRENTLY ON LIVE TOUR WITH ‘SOMETHING SPECIAL’ EP OUT NOW

Off the back of a blistering headline performance at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre and in the middle of their extensive ‘Something Special’ tour, four-piece The Riptide Movement are flying high on the success of their latest EP ‘Something Special’. A triumphant return to form for The Riptide Movement, to date the EP has over 150,000 streams on Spotify since it’s release with current hits ‘I’ll Be There’ & ‘Something Special’ blasting out across national radio.

Like fire and brimstone coming out of your speakers, ‘Is This What We’re All Living For?’ is an electrical storm of thundering, glistening riffs AND lyrics we can all relate to.

“A band that refuses to be pigeonholed, magnificent songwriters.”

Maximum Volume Music

“From the snappy rock ‘n’ roll ignited opener ‘Is This What We’re All Living For ?’ with its shredding guitars, groove infested rhythm and passionate melody to the finger clicking swag of title track  ‘Something Special’  these guys whack out feel good emotive tracks ready to set you alight with their dynamic wall of sound.”

Indie Buddie

“Like fire and brimstone coming out of my speakers! Loud and full of life!!”

Willie Nile

Something Special Tour 2019

4 Oct – The Islington, London.

11 Oct – Nochtwoche, Hamburg.

25 Oct – The Limelight, Belfast.

27 Oct – The Olympia Theatre, Dublin.

15 Nov – Mike the Pies, Kerry.

16 Nov – Cyprus Avenue, Cork.

22 Nov – Dolans Warehouse, Limerick.

23 Nov – Kavanaghs, Portlaoise, Laois.

29 Nov – Roisin Dubh, Galway.

13 Dec – Set Theatre, Kilkenny.

With four studio albums to their name – most notably The RTÉ Choice Music Prize nominated, Gold selling, Number 1 Album “Getting Through”- Dublin four piece The Riptide Movement are renowned for their phenomenal live shows and soaring, guitar driven, energetic tracks. Having toured extensively throughout the world on the back of critically-acclaimed releases “All Works Out”, “You & I” “Elephant in the Room” “Changeling” “I’ll Be There”and latest release “Something Special” the Dublin four piece also released an environmentally conscious web series called “Plastic Oceans’ in association with Clean Coasts, which can be streamed from their website www.trm.ie.

“Is This What We’re All Living For?” the brand new single from The Riptide Movement, is available on all streaming platforms and digital formats from 1 November 2019.

 

SORCHA RICHARDSON SHARES NEW TRACK, ‘HONEY’ DEBUT ALBUM, FIRST PRIZE BRAVERY, OUT NOVEMBER 8th

Following the release of the acclaimed comeback single ‘Don’t Talk About It’, one of Ireland’s most promising talents Sorcha Richardson today returns with the new stunning new song ‘Honey’, the latest track to come from her debut LP, First Prize Bravery, due for release on 8th November 2019.

Showing another side to her masterful talent, today’s track is a more meditative slow-burner than the razor sharp catchiness of ‘Don’t Talk About It’, as it exudes passion and a tender beauty, with her narrative songwriting continuing to connect with people who have shared similar tangled emotions. The resulting ‘Honey’ is staggering, creating a beautiful statement that lasts far longer in the memory than its short runtime.

‘Honey’ serves as the opening track to Sorcha’s debut album, a body of work long in the making – a collection of lyrical snapshots of life as a twentysomething, accompanied by the desires, doubts and developments that the decade delivers. 

Of the track, Sorcha says: “I wrote ‘Honey’ one night in the middle of winter, sitting at the upright piano in the house that I grew up in in Dublin.  It was one of the the first songs that I wrote after deciding that I was going to make an album, and it helped me figure out a lot about what the album would be. With this song in particular, it feels like the less I say about it, the better. But I guess it’s just my attempt to articulate how it feels when somebody new comes into your life, very unexpectedly, flips your world on its head. And you’re just scrambling in the wreckage of whatever that is, trying make sense of it all.”

Ahead of the album’s release, Sorcha will return to the UK, to support Honeyblood before making an appearance at Camden’s Mirrors Festival. To celebrate the debut LP, she’ll then return to Ireland for a handful of headline dates.

Please see below for all upcoming shows and further information about First Prize Bravery.

Upcoming tour dates: 

24th Oct | Glasgow, UK @ Queen Margaret Union*

25th Oct | Birmingham, UK @ The Castle & Falcon*

28th Oct | Nottingham, UK @ Rescue Rooms*

31st Oct: London, UK @ The Garage*

2nd Nov: London, UK @ Mirrors Festival

20th Nov: Dublin, IE @ Whelan’s

21st Nov: Cork, IE @ Winthrop Avenue

22nd Nov: Galway, IE @ Róisín Dubh

* w/ Honeyblood

Tracklist:

1. Honey

2. Don’t Talk About It

3. Oh Oscillator

4. Driveway

5. Red Lion

6. First Prize Bravery

7. High In The Garden

8. False Alarm

9. Twisting The Knife

10. Honey Heavy

About Sorcha Richardson:

Irish singer-songwriter Sorcha Richardson has been cultivating a cult fanbase for several years with the release of songs such as ‘Ruin Your Night’, ‘Petrol Station’ and ‘Can’t We Pretend’ are evocative vignettes of a moment in time which find the poetry in introspection, with a tangible nod to key influences such as Sharon Van Etten, Arcade Fire, Phoebe Bridgers and Julia Jacklin.

It’s been a long road to reach this moment. Richardson left home for Brooklyn as a teenager to study creative writing. She’d assumed her background as a drummer would lead to her playing in a college band, but instead she ended up recording lo-fi demos in her dorm. Picking up traction on SoundCloud gave her the confidence that she could sing, while her studies sharpened her lyrical focus.

Her sound grew richer and more nuanced from 2015’s ‘Petrol Station’ but the idea of making an album didn’t emerge until a few years later. Having written a number of songs at her apartment in Brooklyn, Richardson fleshed out some initial demos with producer Doug Schadt in New York which resulted in early versions of ‘Don’t Talk About It’ and ‘Driveway’.

Moving back to Dublin inspired her to take stock of where she was. A new rush of ideas soon followed, with Richardson writing the likes of ‘False Alarm’ and ‘First Prize Bravery’ on the piano in her parents’ kitchen. An impromptu session with All Tvvins’ Conor Adams yielded ‘No-One Is Any Fun’, which features on their album ‘Just To Exist’, and ‘Twisting The Knife’ which is included here.

The final piece in the puzzle took an almost interventionist turn. Richardson was visiting friends in Los Angeles when she ran into Alex Casnoff, the producer of several of her singles and previously a member of the bands Dawes and Harriet. He’d been focusing on film projects rather than music, but the pair reignited their connection with Casnoff coming on board to produce the entire record. They completed the album within a month, with Richardson contributing vocals and guitar, and Casnoff synths and piano. Further contributions came from friends that Casnoff had met in the Los Angeles music scene.

Touring in Ireland resulted in the realisation that “the songs that are the most fun to play are the ones that feel most like a band”, which inspired the album’s live, guitar-based core. Those live elements are also important within every track, regardless of how big or small the arrangement was.

The skybound, multi-layered ‘Oh Oscillator’, for example, represents her desire “to push the boundaries of how we arranged songs and to use traditional instruments in unconventional ways,” but still resonates when performed with just vocals and a piano. And she was eager to allow elements of the sound to exist as they happened, rather than polishing every precise detail to perfection. ‘Red Lion’ is a case in point, featuring live vocals recorded during a rehearsal.

As her songs look back, it’s fitting that this album represents Sorcha Richardson’s future. “Releasing singles was fun because I felt a lot of freedom move around creatively. But I’m excited to present a more 360 version of what I have in my head. It lets me tell a more complete story.”