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Orchards Announce New Album and Share New Single

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Indie-pop delights Orchards have detailed their second album. It’s called ‘Bicker’ and will be released through longtime label home, Big Scary Monsters, on March 28th.

With a proven flair for infectious indie-pop hooks, the Brighton-based trio promise an album that is “edgier” and “vulnerable”. As previous singles, ‘I Feel Terrible’, ‘Sweetie Pie’ and ‘Mug Song’ showed, the band explore the onset of the pandemic, break-ups, heartbreak, chronic illness, and depression across ‘Bicker’s 10 tracks.

Today, the penultimate album track, ‘Groan’, has been released. It captures Orchards‘ skill of utilising math-rock time signatures and wrapping them around pastel-coloured melodies. It’s complemented by a dizzying 80s synths. It is an addictive taster of Bicker’. Lyrically, it showcases vocalist Lucy Evers’ grittier songwriting through its fist-clenched choruses.

“I was going through a really tough therapy session and my therapist said why do you feel the need to fix this,” explains Evers. “I didn’t have an answer for her. It’s built into my wiring. I want to help, I want to fix it, and she said ‘you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink’ and it hit me like a tonne of bricks. The only person who can really fix something is you! But growing and healing isn’t linear. You can be ‘getting better’ whatever that fucking means and still be scream crying in the bath.”

Orchards, completed by guitarist Sam Rushton and bassist Dan Fane, consider ‘Bicker’ as “the quintessential break up album”. Evers expands on this by sharing, “Whether platonic or romantic this album embodies the trials and battles of losing a part of your heart. Or the fight between your gut and your mind.

“For full disclosure, I’ve learnt to always listen to my gut. She hasn’t been wrong yet.” says Evers. “There are sad songs, happy songs, songs of ambivalence and everywhere in between on this record. But it’s back breakingly true. Every word, every note. We mean every one.”

Along with the release of ‘Bicker’ on March 28th, Orchards will be heading out on a UK headline tour from April.

Orchards - Bicker album artwork1. Say It
2. Bicker
3. I Feel Terrible
4. Good For You, Good For Me
5. Sweetie Pie
6. Bethnal Green
7. Gerl
8. Mug Song
9. Groan
10. You Can Get Used To Anything
Orcahrds 'The Bicker Tour'
April
22nd Hug & Pint, Glasgow
23rd- Yellow Arch, Sheffield
24th Kazimer Stockroom, Liverpool
25th The Lodge, Manchester
26th Noizze Fest, Cardiff
27th Rough Trade, Nottingham
28th The Jericho, Oxford
29th The Flapper, Birmingham
30th Voodoo Daddys, Norwich
May
1st The Exchange, Bristol
2nd Moth Club, London
3rd Alphabet, BrightonPurchase tickets here

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