Orlando Weeks links up with Wet Leg’s Rhian Teasdale on new single, “Dig”

“‘Dig’ is a tit for tat alternate the place lengthy worn-out guarantees are remade and highway weary offences retaken. The type of disagreement that manages to be someplace between outpouring of emotion and uncovered inner monologue,” Weeks says of the tune.

The overarching themes on LOJA are optimism and reflection: the optimistic mindset that emerged as he left London for a brand new life in Lisbon. “The good change in our lives was that we left London and moved to Lisbon, and the document undoubtedly has components of being a love letter to the place that we now name residence. However I feel the transfer supplied a stirring of the waters. It threw up an terrible lot of stuff and it gave us perspective and hindsight as a result of all of the sudden there was distance. You’ll be able to re-evaluate the belongings you had been too near, these issues that there was no level spending time desirous about as a result of it was the day-to-day bubble you had been in.”

The album course of began late in 2022, however solely gathered tempo after he relocated to Lisbon earlier than the majority of the document was made in 13 days in Chale Abbey Studios on the Isle of Wight with producer Sergio Maschetzko (Black Nation New Highway) and his collaborator David Granshaw, earlier than Orlando teamed up with Nathan Jenkins (Bullion) so as to add the finer closing touches.

The title ’LOJA’ (a store or a retailer) references a constructing that Weeks rented in Lisbon which he used as his first correct artwork studio, a spot the place he crafted the entire artwork that can accompany the album. The album will likely be launched to coincide with the beginning of a particular residence at The Copeland Gallery, London working from 6-9 June, the place by day Orlando Weeks will exhibit the work, sketches and prints he created there earlier than it’s remodeled right into a gig venue by night, when he’ll carry out tracks from the album for the very first time.

Tracklist:

1. Longing
2. Finest Night time
3. Wake Up
4. Dig that includes Rhian Teasdale
5. You & The Packhorse Blues
6. Good To See You
7. My Love Is (Daylight Saving)
8. Please Maintain
9. Sorry
10. Tomorrow
11. Lovely Place