Sorcha Richardson has returned with her sophomore album, Smiling Like An Idiot today. The new album finds Richardson navigating themes of self-confidence and identity with brutally honest lyrical content and guitar driven melodies. Listen to it now below.
Sorcha has said that this album is “…about falling in love with a person and a place, which in this case is Dublin, and how those two are interlinked.” In the titular track “Smiling Like an Idiot,” Sorcha walks us through her beloved Dublin in this picture postcard of cherished memories, old friends, and their favorite haunts. Earlier lyrics from “Purgatory” which stated, “Don’t you know that we could be so unhappy here” are mirrored in the album’s heartfelt conclusion, “I never knew I could be so happy here.”
Alex Casnoff (Sparks, Dawes, Harriet) produced a majority of the tracks while Sorcha produced “525” and “Holiday” (with co-production and engineering from David Curley), and “Jackpot” (with shared production credit from James Vincent McMorrow).