Darling Arithmetic is the third album to be released by Villagers which will see the light of day on 13th April 2015 via Domino Records. If Conor O’Brien’s lead single and video for ‘Courage’, unveiled last week, is anything to go by then we’re in for a real treat. We’re promised a very personal album on which there will be minimal accompaniment – guitar, piano, Mellotron and brushes all of which he wrote, recorded and mixed himself in the loft of a converted farmhouse that he shares in the coastal town of Malahide to the north of Dublin.
A host of shows covering the length and breadth of the UK and Ireland will support the album release through April and May, details of which can be found below.
It encompasses the various shades of feeling – desire, obsession, lust, loneliness and confusion, and deeper into philosophical and existential territory, across a cast of lovers, friends, family and even strangers.
Track Listing
01. Courage
02. Everything I Am Is Yours
03. Dawning On Me
04. Hot Scary Summer
05. The Soul Serene
06. Darling Arithmetic
07. Little Bigot
08. No One To Blame
09. So Naïve
UK & Ireland Tour Dates
April
14 Bristol St Georges
15 Falmouth Pavilions
16 Exeter Phoenix
17 Brighton The Old Market
19 Liverpool Epstein Theatre
20 Manchester Concert Hall
21 Leeds City Varieties
23 Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
24 Cardiff The Gate
26 Nottingham Glee Club
27 Edinburgh Pleasance Theatre
28 Glasgow Oran Mor
May
1 London Barbican
20 May – Olympia Theatre, Dublin
23 May – Opera House, Cork
24 May – Big Top, Limerick
25 May – Mandela Hall, Belfast