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Sorcha Richardson - 'Lost' and 'Can't We Pretend' (In Session)
Thursday 12th January, 2017
They say:“I wrote ‘Lost’ after my friend called me to say that his girlfriend had broken up with him. He was devastated and I wanted to do something to cheer him up. It's about helping a friend get over a broken heart but also a reminder that it's okay to not have everything figured out. I recorded it with my friend Alex Casnoff in Los Angeles at the start of the summer. I just wanted it to feel like a song that would come on at 4am in an empty bar and would make you wanna get up and dance on your own, even if you'd had a s***** night up until then. Like it would somehow make you feel like everything would be okay.
I moved to New York when I was 18 without really considering the effects of that decision. I naively thought that Dublin would always be Dublin and I would always have home to return to. But then I started coming home and realizing that things were changing. The city was changing, people were changing, I was changing. And I realized that I could never go home to the place that I left because it didn't exist anymore. It's something I think about a lot and have tried to write about a few times. I actually had an earlier version of ‘Can’t We Pretend’ that I posted on Youtube but when it came time to record it, Alex asked me "what is this song really about?" I took a step back and looked at the situation from a more honest viewpoint. I realized I'd been dancing around the thing that I was trying to say. It led to a day of rewriting a lot of the lyrics and forced me to be totally blunt about how I felt and, regardless of how uncomfortable it made me, I knew I would never feel satisfied with the song unless I really wrote the truth.”
We say: “When listening to Sorcha in the past we’ve often thought about the smart production - the contemporary shimmer of ‘Petrol Station’ or the understated feel of ‘Walk Away’ - but here all that is stripped away and still, the songs shine. In session Sorcha delivered impeccable acoustic renditions of tracks which exude honesty, compassion and loss.”
Born in Dublin but based in Brooklyn, New York, Sorcha was live in session for Across the Line on 2nd January. Her latest single 'Ruin Your Night' is available to buy now.
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