“Big Dreams is disarming and layered… Slow-burning art-pop that is at once inventive and soothing… Gently compelling.” The Guardian – One To Watch
“As is befitting of an album released as winter nights encroach, this is a record to hibernate to” The Irish Times
Rachael Lavelle has shared the single ‘Sleepy Gal’, taken from her Choice Music Prize nominated debut album Big Dreams – “For all the gals who love to sleep!”
Watch the lyric video here: https://youtu.be/bXGhRkHG2Fo
The track was co-produced by Rachael Lavelle and Alex Borwick, engineered and mixed by Alex Borwick and features Ryan Hargadon on clarinet.
Rachael and her band will hit the road around the UK, Ireland, France and Netherlands this autumn, including an appearance at Pitchfork Festival London at The Roundhouse with Arooj Aftab.
TOUR DATES
10/10 – Birmingham, UK @ Hare & Hounds 2
11/10 – Manchester, UK @ Low Four Studio
12/10 – Edinburgh, UK @ Leith Depot
13/10 – Glasgow, UK @ Old Hairdressers
15/10 – Newcastle, UK @ The Lubber Fiend
16/10 – Leeds, UK @ Lending Room
17/10 – Cardiff, UK @ SWN Festival
23/10 – Dublin, IE @ Button Factory
24/10 – Belfast, NI @ Ulster Sports Club
26/10 – Ennistymon @ Pot Duggan’s
30/10 – Limerick, IE @ Dolans
31/10 – Galway, IE @ An Taibhdhearc
1/11 – Kilkenny, IE @ Cleeres
2/11 – Sligo, IE @ Sligo Live Festival *
5/11 – Bristol, UK @ Crofters Rights
7/11 – London, UK @ The Roundhouse (Pitchfork Festival) ^
17/11 – Paris, FR @ Café de la Dance (Les Femmes s’en Mêlent Festival) ±
23/11 – Cork, IE @ Quiet Lights Festival
24/11 – Conakilty, IE @ De Barras
25/11 – Kinsale, IE @ Prims Bookshop
8/12 – Den Haag, NL @ Hink Festival
* w/ Villagers
^ w/ Arooj Aftab, Keeley Forsyth, Yasmin Williams, Sheherazaad, Zsela
± w/ Myriam Gendron
Tickets on sale via www.rachaellavelle.com
Dublin-born singer and composer Rachael Lavelle’s debut album ‘Big Dreams’ has quickly seen her become recognised as one of Ireland’s most exciting emerging talents.
It’s seen the album receive a nomination for Ireland’s Choice Music Prize Album of the Year. Lavelle has also been tapped up to tour with breakthrough artists Lankum and CMAT, as a musical guest on The Adam Buxton Podcast Live, as well as taking part in the Sorcha Richardson curated ‘Imagining Ireland’ at The Barbican in London and National Concert Hall in Dublin alongside SOAK, Ye Vagabonds, Aby Coulibaly and more.
‘Big Dreams’ is an existential coming-of-age album that chronicles the journey of a young woman searching for direction and meaning in a very strange world. Inspired by sounds of everyday life and an intriguing obsession with YouTube self-help videos, the album explores romance, directionless-ness, ambition and the expectations of the unsatisfied digital native. ‘Big Dreams’ is an introspective journey that invites the listener to ask what it means to be alive in the 21st century.
Floating in a world that is at once full of irony and honesty, Rachael examines the essential things: sleeping, eating, work and the search for love, reimagining them in a dream-like musical landscape of luscious synths, manipulated vocals, cinematic sound design, strings, woodwind and electronic beats. A wry sense of humour peppered throughout is glued together by the iconic voice of Doireann Ní Bhriain, the voice of the Luas transport system in Dublin.
Recorded in various locations between Ireland and Portugal, the album is the result of years of experimentation and destruction. Written and produced by Lavelle, it was created alongside long-time collaborator, multi-instrumentalist and co-producer Ryan Hargadon (moondiver, Anna Mieke, Kojaque) and engineer and co-producer Alex Borwick (Niamh Regan, Inni-K).
Instagram: @rachaellavelle
Twitter: @rachael_lavelle
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